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    donho
    last edited by May 15, 2023, 5:51 AM

    Notepad++ v8.5.3 Release is available here:
    https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v853-released/

    Notepad++ v8.5.3 bug-fixes and new features:

    1. Fix session file data loss issue. (Fix #13514 )
    2. Fix Explorer context menu “Edit with Notepad++” needs restarting os to appear issue under Win 8/10. (Fix #13 )
    3. Fix Explorer context menu “Edit with Notepad++” not installed for multiple users issue. (Fix #13476 )
    4. Fix Explorer context menu “Edit with Notepad++” double entries in some applications (Winzip). (Fix #13499 )
    5. Make Explorer context menu “Edit with Notepad++” translatable. (Fix #17 )
    6. Add the UTF8 character ability for Run & Macro menu. (Fix #12670 , #13221 , #13488 )
    7. Add hide/show ability of Control Characters (C0 & C1) and Unicode EOL. (Fix #8111 )
    8. Fix Change history margin in black color issue. (Fix #12764 , #13593 )
    9. Improve “Remove consecutive duplicate lines” command performance. (Fix #5538 , #12548 )
    10. Project Workspace “Save a Copy As” confusion issue. (Fix #13135 )
    11. Make “Remove consecutive duplicate lines” support more line break. (Fix #13474 )
    12. Fix UDL deletion issue. (Fix #8101 )
    13. Fix RTL not working on FindInFiles progress window. (Fix #13458 )
    14. Fix search results output alignment for large file searches. (Fix #13481 )
    15. Several GUI Enhancements. (Fix #13615 , #13601 , #12812 , #13579 , #13577 , #13575 , #13597 , #13524 , #13540 , #13544 , #13315 )

    Note that your Macro and Run commands saved in Notepad++ v.8.5.2 (or older) may not be compatible with the current version of Notepad++. Please test those commands and, if needed, re-edit them.
    Alternatively, you can downgrade to Notepad++ v8.5.2 and restore your previous data. Notepad++ will backup your old “shortcuts.xml” and save it as “shortcuts.xml.v8.5.2.backup”.
    Renaming “shortcuts.xml.v8.5.2.backup" -> “shortcuts.xml”, your commands should be restored and work properly.

    Auto-update will be triggered in one week if no critical issue found.

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    • D donho unlocked this topic on May 15, 2023, 6:03 AM
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      taxidriver
      last edited by taxidriver May 15, 2023, 10:42 AM May 15, 2023, 10:31 AM

      After updating to 8.5.3 64-bit, “Edit with Notepad++” context menu is missing from Directory Opus.

      The normal Windows Explorer is fine, no issue. It’s only missing from Directory Opus.

      ::EDIT:: I’ve also reported to Directory Opus, because I’m not sure which program causes the issue. Thanks

      Windows 10 Home 64-bit 21H2
      Directory Opus 12.31 x64
      Notepad++ 8.5.3 64-bit

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        Gittyperson
        last edited by Gittyperson May 16, 2023, 7:37 PM May 16, 2023, 7:36 PM

        Same as above. Starting from v8.5.0, “Edit with Notepad++” context menu is missing from Directory Opus.

        W10 22H2

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        • G Grath777 referenced this topic on May 18, 2023, 1:54 PM
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          donho @donho
          last edited by May 21, 2023, 7:50 AM

          FYI:
          Auto-updater has been triggered for v8.5.3.

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            Snabel42 @donho
            last edited by Snabel42 May 21, 2023, 1:37 PM May 21, 2023, 1:36 PM

            @donho I think there’s something not-quite-right with the auto update, referenced here

            Help - Update Notepad++ issue

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              PeterJones @donho
              last edited by PeterJones May 22, 2023, 1:00 PM May 21, 2023, 9:25 PM

              @donho ,

              I looked into the ? > Update Notepad++ issue. I was in v8.4.8, and asked it to Update Notepad++, and Notepad++/gup.exe gave the Xml Exception: It’s not a valid GUP xml. that @datatraveller1 mentioned in the other topic.

              image

              I then checked my v8.4.8 gup.xml, and didn’t see any problems there… so I went to https://notepad-plus-plus.org/update/getDownloadUrl.php – and the website asked me for a captcha (“please help train our AI with the excuse that we want you to prove that you are a human”). Once I finished the captcha in my web browser, it showed me the normal XML contents of the getDownloadUrl.php page. After I’d seen that in my browser, I tried ? > Update Notepad++ again, and this time it gave me the normal Update Available dialog box that I expected.

              It appears that your webhost is now demanding a captcha that gup.exe is not recognizing, since it’s not a human.

              update: per this post, that same captcha system is breaking the Community Forum’s RSS Feed feature.
              update: added screenshot of error message

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                donho @PeterJones
                last edited by May 22, 2023, 2:16 PM

                @PeterJones said in Notepad++ v8.5.3 Release:

                It appears that your webhost is now demanding a captcha that gup.exe is not recognizing, since it’s not a human.

                I’ve never applied captcha into notepad-plus-plus.org .
                Is it possible that it’s applied by the host of Notepad++ website?

                You said “community.notepad-plus-plus.org have apparently added captcha”
                How did you reproduce it?

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                  PeterJones @donho
                  last edited by PeterJones May 22, 2023, 2:41 PM May 22, 2023, 2:39 PM

                  @donho said in Notepad++ v8.5.3 Release:

                  @PeterJones said in Notepad++ v8.5.3 Release:

                  It appears that your webhost is now demanding a captcha that gup.exe is not recognizing, since it’s not a human.

                  I’ve never applied captcha into notepad-plus-plus.org .
                  Is it possible that it’s applied by the host of Notepad++ website?

                  That is possible, yes.

                  You said “community.notepad-plus-plus.org have apparently added captcha”

                  Sorry, I misread @timendum’s post here – it wasn’t the forum RSS… it was the RSS feed for notepad-plus-plus.org itself (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/index.xml ). Once I have filled out the captcha on a specific computer, I cannot get it to show the problem again, so I cannot reproduce for the RSS feed… but if you haven’t done the captcha yet on a given computer, then going to either of these pages should ask for the captcha: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/index.xml or https://notepad-plus-plus.org/update/getDownloadUrl.php

                  So it looks like your host may have applied a captcha to any of the pages that were being automatically downloaded frequently in the main notepad-plus-plus.org site (but not the community forum site)

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                    Snabel42 @PeterJones
                    last edited by May 22, 2023, 2:43 PM

                    @PeterJones I haven’t done the captcha, and those two URLs currently look like this on my machine:

                    2023-05-22_10-42-15.png 2023-05-22_10-42-06.png

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                      donho @PeterJones
                      last edited by May 22, 2023, 3:29 PM

                      @PeterJones

                      CAPTCHA issue has been solved now:
                      https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/13685#issuecomment-1557426831

                      Thank you for your heads up!

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                      • A Alan Kilborn referenced this topic on May 25, 2023, 11:50 AM
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                        guy038
                        last edited by guy038 May 25, 2023, 1:10 PM May 25, 2023, 1:05 PM

                        Hello, @don-ho and All,

                        @don-ho, I noticed some weird results about the recording of the line-breaks during a macro recording process, with N++ v8.5.3

                        Refer to the link, below, to get a general idea of the problem :

                        https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24477/help-having-trouble-with-macros-in-v8-5-3-or-later/18

                        Of course, if you think that it’s a real issue, I will report on GitHub !

                        Best Regards,

                        guy038

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                          Alan Kilborn @guy038
                          last edited by May 25, 2023, 1:48 PM

                          @guy038 said in Notepad++ v8.5.3 Release:

                          I noticed some weird results about the recording of the line-breaks during a macro recording process, with N++ v8.5.3

                          And, @donho, would it be terribly difficult to allow real CR and LF characters to be put into the xml as 
 and 
 again?

                          Because I’ve been a consistent proponent (on this forum) against “line-ending corruption” in any text files, it goes against my grain to now see this type of “corruption” possible in one of the core N++ configuration files. :-(

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                            Jerald Belleza
                            last edited by May 25, 2023, 8:18 PM

                            Hello @donho seems to be a bug with Multi-instance. Prior to 8.5.3 whenever I select multiple files (by highlighting) and right click Edit with Notepad++, all of the files are opened on a single instance. Now with 8.5.3, all files are opened separately (new instance).

                            Thanks!

                            Jerald BellezaJ Cameron GrayC 2 Replies Last reply May 26, 2023, 12:56 PM Reply Quote 0
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                              Jerald Belleza @Jerald Belleza
                              last edited by Jerald Belleza May 26, 2023, 12:56 PM May 26, 2023, 12:56 PM

                              @donho Tried to install lower version and issue persist. Looks like the problem could be from OS version. I am using Windows 11 Version 22H2 OS Build 22621.1702

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                                donho @Jerald Belleza
                                last edited by May 26, 2023, 2:50 PM

                                @Jerald-Belleza
                                May I know from which version you have updated to v8.5.3?

                                Jerald BellezaJ 1 Reply Last reply Jun 12, 2023, 7:20 PM Reply Quote 0
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                                  donho @guy038
                                  last edited by May 26, 2023, 2:56 PM

                                  @guy038 @Alan-Kilborn

                                  I can see the “inconsistency” of carriage return in saved shortcuts.xml.
                                  However, after replaying the recorded macro, I see no unexpected behaviour. So it’s not a bug to me, or am I missing somethings?

                                  If I am, please provide me here a small (as small as possible) scenario to reproduce the bug. Thank you in advance.

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                                    guy038
                                    last edited by guy038 May 26, 2023, 4:51 PM May 26, 2023, 4:27 PM

                                    Hello, @don-ho,

                                    I agree with you, that whatever the EOL of the current file, the macro is always fully functional !

                                    It’s the case when :

                                    • You use my Test_CRLF macro with a Windows (CRLF) EOL file

                                    • You use my Test_LF macro with a Unix (LF) EOL file

                                    • You use my Test_CR macro with a Mac (CR) EOL file


                                    However, I would have expected :

                                    • For a current Windows (CRLF) file, the following recording of the line-breaks, in the shortcuts.xml file, with a CR and LF lines ( instead of CR then CRLF ) :
                                                <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="
                                    " />
                                                <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="
                                    " />
                                    
                                    • And for a current Unix (LF) file, the following recording of the line-breaks, in the shortcuts.xml file, with two consecutive LF lines ( instead of two CRLF lines ) :
                                                <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="
                                    " />
                                                <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="
                                    " />
                                    

                                    BR

                                    guy038

                                    P.S. :

                                    • For a Mac (CR) file, it’ seems OK, as we do have two consecutive CR lines, if current line-endiing is Mac (CR) !

                                    P.P.S. :

                                    • This means that it would be necessary to take in account the current line-ending of the current file, while recording these line-breaks / a macro !
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                                      PeterJones @donho
                                      last edited by PeterJones May 27, 2023, 4:04 PM May 27, 2023, 4:00 PM

                                      @donho said in Notepad++ v8.5.3 Release:

                                      So it’s not a bug to me

                                      Is the exact situation they showed technically a bug? No, because “it works”: it plays back what was recorded.

                                      But since we’re requiring users to hand-edit their macros to get rid of entities, it should at least be done in a readable way, and a way that the user can easily understand. And it doesn’t meant that it isn’t pointing to a bug in the implementation.

                                      For example, a user is hand editing their macro, and they know from Scintilla.iface that 2170 is “ReplaceSel” which maps to SCI_REPLACESEL , and they know from the Scintilla documentation that SCI_REPLACESEL allows any string, not just a string containing a single character. So then while hand-editing, they put in “A new line.[CR][LF]A second line.[CR][LF]” and save their macro file, and restart.
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                                      They now run this macro, and the macro inserts a single [LF], not the [CR][LF] that they intended.

                                      d913c5bd-c70f-4414-a1e5-f148d07b52cd-image.png

                                      If there’s a [CR][LF] in the string that the macro is supposed to insert in the source for the macro, it needs to be inserted into the document as a [CR][LF]. This is a bug, IMO, because the user hand-edited a macro to put in [CR][LF], and the string that they inserted in that command is not the string that gets inserted into their document.

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                                        alexolog @PeterJones
                                        last edited by May 27, 2023, 5:51 PM

                                        @PeterJones said in Notepad++ v8.5.3 Release:

                                        For example, a user is hand editing their macro, and they know from Scintilla.iface that 2170 is “ReplaceSel” which maps to SCI_REPLACESEL , and they know from the Scintilla documentation that SCI_REPLACESEL allows any string, not just a string containing a single character.

                                        I would expect NP++ to include the relevant documentation instead of expecting the (possibly novice) user to start hunting for it. Especially given that the user’s version NP++ may be older than the documentation available online.

                                        Including a snapshot of the relevant documentation with the distribution should be doable.

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                                          Alan Kilborn @alexolog
                                          last edited by May 27, 2023, 6:21 PM

                                          @alexolog

                                          Everything you said has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the relevant points being made in this thread, and probably just obfuscates the main thrust of those points. :-(

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