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    • donhoD
      donho
      last edited by donho

      Notepad++ v8.6 Release Candidate:
      http://download.notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/8.x/8.6.RC/

      Notepad++ v8.6 Change log:

      1. Multi-edit is fully supported in Notepad++. (Fix #14266, #8203)
      2. Make multi-select background & caret colours customizable. (Fix #14302)
      3. Make session inaccessible files remembered (empty & read-only document as placeholder). (Fix #12079, #12744, #13696)
      4. Fix missing session invalid error for user session & enhance API NPPM_GETNBSESSIONFILES. (Fix #14228)
      5. Fix network shared files saving regression. (Fix #14300)
      6. Update Scintilla to v5.3.8 & Lexilla to v5.2.8. (Fix #13442, #14188, #14288)
      7. Fix docking panel crash due to messing up config.xml. (Fix bug report
      8. Fix invalid styler.xml making Notepad++ crash issue. (Fix #12101)
      9. Fix tab-closing crash by middle mouse button (unexpected mouse position). (Fix #14328)
      10. Fix 2 performance issues in Style Configurator. (Fix #14321)
      11. Add 3 line operation (delete, copy & cut) shortcuts. (Fix #14296)
      12. Display extra info in the status bar of Find/Replace dialog to avoid PEBKAC. (Fix #14307)
      13. Fix “Hide lines” command hiding unselected lines issue. (Fix #14166)
      14. Fix silent installer mode when Notepad++ is running issue. (Fix #10189, #10277, #22514, #14236, fix partially #8514)
      15. Fix Updater’s vulnerability (update cURL in WinGUp for fixing CVE-2023-38545). (Fix WinGUp issue #50)
      16. Fix incoherent behaviour of “Duplicate Current Line” menu command. (Fix #5298)
      17. Fix JSON5 not using JSON keywords. (Fix #14205)
      18. Fix empty message showing while cancelling session file saving dialog. (Fix #14235)
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      • xomxX
        xomx @donho
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        @donho
        Omitted intentionally?
        https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/wingup/pull/48

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        • mkupperM
          mkupper @donho
          last edited by

          @donho
          I also noticed that the plugins admin does not include Columns++. Maybe @Coises just missed the cutoff on the plugins list?

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          • mkupperM
            mkupper @donho
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            @donho Here is a possible regression - When I use the arrow keys to move the cursor Notepad++ is acting like it’s in column mode though the status line says I’m not. Maybe I’m activating multi-edit, whatever that is?

            For repro I’m using v8.6 (64-bit) portable but I also saw the same thing in v8.6 x32 installed and v8.6 x32 portable.

            1 1 1 1
            2
            3 3 3 3
            4
            
            abc xyz
            abc xyz
            abc xyz
            abc xyz
            
            • I put the cursor after the first abc and then while holding Alt+Shift I did down arrow three time. So far it looks good with a 4x0 column according to the status line.
            • I then did an up-arrow. The status line says I’m out of column mode but the 4-line high “cursor” moved up. I did up-arrow a few more times and then started doing right arrow. The cursor remained at 4 lines but as I moved right the cursor fragments. I think I lost one as I see three flashing.

            Esc exits the multi-cursor mode.

            With v8.5.8 the first part works to create a 4x0 column. When I do the first up-arrow it exits column mode and has a single cursor, which is what I am used to.

            Notepad++ v8.6 (64-bit)
            Build time : Nov 18 2023 - 00:43:50
            Path : c:\npp\npp860-RC1\notepad++.exe
            Command Line :
            Admin mode : OFF
            Local Conf mode : ON
            Cloud Config : OFF
            OS Name : Windows 11 Home (64-bit)
            OS Version : 22H2
            OS Build : 22621.2715
            Current ANSI codepage : 1252
            Plugins :
            mimeTools (2.9)
            NppConverter (4.5)
            NppExport (0.4)

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            • mkupperM
              mkupper @donho
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              @donho Here’s another column mode related regression that does not happen in v8.5.8

              I was looking over some old notes at a series of JPEG file names and their sizes. I saw:

              768NBSB×NBSB1024
              768NBSB×NBSB1024
              768NBSB×NBSB1024
              768NBSB×NBSB1024

              I did not need the NBSB and so did a column select of the first NBSB in all four lines and hit Del. The NBSP were replaced with xA0. It is a UTF-8 encoded text file meaning it’s encoded as \xC2\xA0 I did not test using Del with other multi-byte Unicode sequences.

              Using backspace to column delete the NBSP is okay. Using Del in non-column mode to delete the NBSP is ok.

              In the example image below I column-deleted the first NBSP on the first two lines.

              column-delete.png

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              • donhoD
                donho @xomx
                last edited by

                @xomx said in Notepad++ v8.6 Release Candidate:

                Omitted intentionally?
                https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/wingup/pull/48

                It’s by forgetting. Sorry about that.
                It will be in v8.6, or in v8.6.1, I’ll see.

                @mkupper said in Notepad++ v8.6 Release Candidate:

                I also noticed that the plugins admin does not include Columns++. Maybe @Coises just missed the cutoff on the plugins list ?

                Then it will be in v8.6.1

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                • donhoD
                  donho @mkupper
                  last edited by donho

                  @mkupper

                  With v8.5.8 the first part works to create a 4x0 column. When I do the first up-arrow it exits column mode and has a single cursor, which is what I am used to.

                  It’s a regression, but a minor one.
                  Could you create an issue on GitHub and ping me please?
                  It’ll be fixed in the next version (v8.6.1).

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                  • donhoD
                    donho @mkupper
                    last edited by donho

                    @mkupper said in Notepad++ v8.6 Release Candidate:

                    I did not need the NBSB and so did a column select of the first NBSB in all four lines and hit Del. The NBSP were replaced with xA0. It is a UTF-8 encoded text file meaning it’s encoded as \xC2\xA0 I did not test using Del with other multi-byte Unicode sequences.

                    I cannot reproduce the issue you report at all.
                    Is anyone here can reproduce it?

                    OK, I misunderstand it.
                    What’s the Hex value of NBSB? So I can try to reproduce it.

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                    • Alan KilbornA
                      Alan Kilborn @mkupper
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                      @mkupper said in Notepad++ v8.6 Release Candidate:

                      With v8.5.8 the first part works to create a 4x0 column. When I do the first up-arrow it exits column mode and has a single cursor, which is what I am used to.

                      But this is NOT true with 8.5.8 and BetterMultiselection plugin installed and enabled. With that, the first up-arrow keeps the multiple carets; just moving them (what the “up” is telling it to do). It takes an Esc press to get back to one caret.

                      I’m not saying that the plugin is doing it totally correctly, but, it may be what users of the plugin have gotten used to as the “correct” behavior in that situation.

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                      • PeterJonesP
                        PeterJones @donho
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                        @donho said in Notepad++ v8.6 Release Candidate:

                        Is anyone here can reproduce it?

                        Yes, I can reproduce (though at first I couldn’t) – maybe like me, @donho did a 4x1 column selection instead of 4x0 column selection:

                        Step 1: column selection, showing it’s one character wide:
                        f393cd28-fc36-4f4a-a823-91e24d189232-image.png

                        Step 2: hit Del/Delete key: it deletes the whole NBSP, without leaving
                        55654be0-846f-43a3-b6d5-eca0fc1a38b4-image.png

                        Confirm: View > Show Symbol is showing all characters, so it’s not just hiding something:
                        6293f7d3-e55f-4409-9032-2eeee2b0b8b7-image.png

                        Original Conclusion: thought I could not reproduce. But as I was re-reading @mkupper’s post, I wondered if I misinterpreted.

                        Undo, so it’s back to the original

                        Then Step 1: do a 4x0 zero-width column selection
                        968616d3-52b0-455b-89c1-6e9a6716347b-image.png

                        Step 2: Del/Delete =>
                        6633e526-beed-467b-99a1-806a5253ff2a-image.png

                        Confirmed the bug report. With a 0-width column selection, hitting Del before NBSP broke it into its constituent bytes and just deleted one byte rather than one character.

                        Tried with some accented characters (2 bytes each) and then some smilies (with 3-4 bytes each):

                        Before: 454962ba-e43c-437e-a141-30a6da6c2172-image.png
                        02dae62e-ae3b-466f-95be-7d736ac51bba-image.png
                        After hitting Del once: 6593397c-a63d-4cbb-8ae3-30bfcea33dc8-image.png
                        bab1e034-d871-4e21-8d65-501b774bf9c1-image.png

                        So it’s not just NBSP. With a 0-width column selection, hitting Del when the next character is a multi-byte UTF-8 character causes it to delete only the first byte rather than the whole character.

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                        • PeterJonesP
                          PeterJones @donho
                          last edited by

                          @donho said in Notepad++ v8.6 Release Candidate:

                          What’s the Hex value of NBSB? So I can try to reproduce it.

                          @mkupper’s NBSB was just a typo for NBSP; see the right value in his screenshot

                          NBSP is the non-breaking space, at U+00A0 , which is UTF-8 encoded as the two bytes c2a0.

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                          • donhoD
                            donho @PeterJones
                            last edited by

                            @PeterJones @mkupper
                            Please check the fix:
                            https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/14384

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                            • PeterJonesP
                              PeterJones @donho
                              last edited by

                              @donho ,

                              I first tried with the “Notepad++.MSVC.x64.Debug” artifact: I loaded my example file from yesterday, did the zero-width selection, and hit Delete, and that caused an MSVC assertion error:
                              4bc95009-8a21-4c22-88b2-a51d51805719-image.png

                              … But as I was writing this reply, I realized that I probably don’t have everything set up right for DEBUG builds, so I thought I would try the RELEASE build:

                              When I run with the “Notepad++.MSVC.x64.Release” artifact, the zero-width column selection followed by Del works as expected on the multi-byte UTF-8 characters. So the fix looks good to me. But you should probably wait for @mkupper to confirm as well, because he might have a different sequence, which may or may not behave the same as my experiment.

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                              • Alan KilbornA
                                Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
                                last edited by Alan Kilborn

                                @PeterJones said in Notepad++ v8.6 Release Candidate:

                                I realized that I probably don’t have everything set up right for DEBUG builds

                                There is no special setup for running a Debug build, so you are set up correctly. :-)

                                The problem is: Someone at some time wrote some poor assertions, and now they just get in the way of things. OR…the assertions were good at the time written, but now other things have changed, and no one maintained the assertions, so now they aren’t so good. :-(

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                                • donhoD
                                  donho @PeterJones
                                  last edited by

                                  @PeterJones said in Notepad++ v8.6 Release Candidate:

                                  I first tried with the “Notepad++.MSVC.x64.Debug” artifact: I loaded my example file from yesterday, did the zero-width selection, and hit Delete, and that caused an MSVC assertion error:

                                  Could you share your example file here please?

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                                  • PeterJonesP
                                    PeterJones @donho
                                    last edited by PeterJones

                                    @donho said in Notepad++ v8.6 Release Candidate:

                                    Could you share your example file here please?

                                    768 × 1024
                                    768 × 1024
                                    768 × 1024
                                    768 × 1024
                                    U+C0	À	À
                                    U+C1	Á	Á
                                    U+C2	Â	Â
                                    U+C3	Ã	Ã
                                    U+C4	Ä	Ä
                                    U+C5	Å	Å
                                    * ☺ `U+2640`       SMILE        ☺
                                    * ☹ `U+2639`       FROWN       ☹
                                    * 😃 `U+1F603`      OPEN        😃
                                    * 😉 `U+1F609`      WINK        😉
                                    * 😐 `U+1F610`      NEUTRAL     😐
                                    * 😜 `U+1F61C`      TongueOut   😜
                                    * 😲 `U+1F632`      ASTONISHED  😲
                                    

                                    update: the tabs and NBSP didn’t come through, so here it is base64-encoded using the MIME Tools plugin:

                                    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                                    • donhoD
                                      donho @PeterJones
                                      last edited by donho

                                      @PeterJones said in Notepad++ v8.6 Release Candidate:

                                      update: the tabs and NBSP didn’t come through, so here it is base64-encoded using the MIME Tools plugin:

                                      Hmm… using debug built locally binary, with 0 length column mode selection in front of all special chars then DEL - no assertion.

                                      Could you provide the accurate instructions to reproduce the assertion please?

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                                      • PeterJonesP
                                        PeterJones @donho
                                        last edited by PeterJones

                                        @donho ,

                                        I found the problem on that. When I got the assertion error, I was still using a corrupted version of my testfile that had some of the NBSP as a single xA0 instead.

                                        I can also reproduce the error by pasting in this base64 and decoding it:

                                        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
                                        

                                        So the error is unrelated to the column-delete, and instead related to the DEBUG-build’s handling of invalid UTF-8 sequences in certain unusual situations. (I don’t think it’s critical that a debug build has difficuly with invalid UTF-8. I verified that the v8.6-RC build and the RELEASE build on this PR don’t do anything unpleasant under the same circumstances. Unless you want to make the DEBUG build more robust against invalid UTF-8, I’d probably recommend not worrying about it.)

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                                        • donhoD
                                          donho @PeterJones
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                                          @PeterJones

                                          Thank you for the detail explanation.
                                          I will do a RC2 immediately.

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                                            donho @donho
                                            last edited by donho

                                            Notepad++ v8.6 Release Candidate 2 is available here:
                                            https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25158/notepad-v8-6-release-candidate-2

                                            The regression of DEL is fixed in RC2.

                                            @xomx
                                            https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/wingup/pull/48 is included.

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