Notepad++ v8.4.7 Release
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@Mike7O ,
Windows ShellExecute is limited in the number of characters it will accept; this was true in v8.4.6 and is still true in v8.4.7, because it’s part of the Microsoft Windows win32-api definition for maximum command length.
You might consider not opening so many files from the same right-click from Explorer; then you can select the second half, and unless you have done something like telling Notepad++ to always open files in multisession, it will add the files to the existing Notepad++ window. Or just open the folder as a workspace from inside Notepad++.
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@PeterJones nice, haven’t explored that many features so anything that makes my work easier is appreciated 🤩
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@Mike7O
still I was able to do it in previous versions … well now I know alternative ways …
googled and this was the solutionso run as admin which some settings-changes required I will only do when I need 😎
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Some times I find that the source is badly managed by notepad++.
As now I know that this can happen, when I find that the program has an inadequate behavior I delete the line and I retype it.
Example in the attached file, tittle should be in blue like the other keywords. I had to delete the line and reenter it.
This problem is unfortunately not reproducible.
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@DomOBU ,
<tittle>is not an HTML tag, so it will not be styled as an HTML tag. The correct tag<title>would be properly styled.
If you want to make it more obvious that you’ve got an error in your HTML, you can go to Settings > Style Configurator > HTML > TAGUNKNOWN and change the foreground colour from black to red
This is not a regresion in Notepad++: it has always been like this. This is not a bug in Notepad++: it was intended to style invalid/unknown HTML tags differently than valid/known tags. This is intended behavior.
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@PeterJones said in Notepad++ v8.4.7 Release:
Style Configurato
Thank you for your answer. You are right.
I didn’t know this “Style Configurator” feature which is very useful.
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It seems that the word “download” is not recognized in the HTML files.
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@DomOBU ,
<DOWNLOAD>isn’t an HTML tag that I’m aware of.downloadmight be a keyword in one of the web scripting languages (javascript, ASP, or similar), but I don’t know for sure.But it’s not a regression in v8.4.7, and that’s the focus of this topic. If you have generic Notepad++ questions that aren’t specific to breaking-changes in v8.4.7, please create a new topic in “Help Wanted”
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@PeterJones
Thank you for your reply.
I have tried in “Help wanted” but my post is considered as spam.The context is as follows:
<a href=“the URL of the file to download”
download=“the name you want to give to the downloaded file”>
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@DomOBU ,
You should be able to post elsewhere… probably just too high a percentage of your post was HTML without being inside the ``` markdown (using the
</>button on the toolbar) so the forum thought you were trying to build HTML to spam us.But to simply answer your question: edit
%AppData%\Notepad++\langs.xml, find the<Language name="html"section. In the<Keywords name="instre1">element (which hashrefin the text), putdownloadbetweendl draggable(so that it’s in alphabetical order) =>dl download draggable, save, and reload Notepad++.
From there on out, your copy of Notepad++ will know the
downloadattribute for HTML files.Further discussion on this should be in a separate topic.
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Thanks again.
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This thread is for the regression or critical bugs for the new release.
For the bug report please do it in “General Discussion” or “Help wanted”. -
@donho said in Notepad++ v8.4.7 Release:
For the bug report please do it in “General Discussion” or “Help wanted”.
If it is a REAL bug report, report it HERE.
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