Notepad++ release 8.9.8.1

Artur Harison

@donho
I uplad file.
I cannot isolate the regression conditions.
But you can repeat his with his file.
Text file for teproduction
Video…

donho

@andrecool-68 said:

In Windows 7, there is no confirmation dialog for the “Move file to Recycle Bin” action.
In Windows 10, the confirmation dialog for “Move file to Recycle Bin” is present.

It’s due to:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/NppIO.cpp#L2357

	winVer winVersion = (NppParameters::getInstance()).getWinVersion();
	bool goAhead = true;
	if (winVersion >= WV_WIN8 || winVersion == WV_UNKNOWN)
	{
		// Windows 8 (and version after?) has no system alert, so we ask user's confirmation
		goAhead = (doDeleteOrNot(fileNamePath) == IDOK);
	}

	if (goAhead)
	{
		...
		if (!MainFileManager.deleteFile(bufferID))
		{
			...

Is this by design, or is it a bug?

So it was by design. However, a modification was added in deleteFile about one year ago, by @xomx :

fileOpStruct.fFlags = FOF_ALLOWUNDO | FOF_NOCONFIRMATION; // FOF_NOCONFIRMATION - prevent possible redundant shell-dlg (Notepad++ uses its own delete-confirmation dlg)

(ref: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/de7aa5ae7afb23a900f243120fefeb7a8a3d6ef2)

That disables the OS popup while calling SHFileOperation.

As a result, I think it’s safe to remove OS detection and display Notepad++ build-in warning dialog unconditionally.

I’ll do a commit to fix it.

donho

donho said:

As a result, I think it’s safe to remove OS detection and display Notepad++ build-in warning dialog unconditionally.

I’ll do a commit to fix it.

The issue is fixed in the master. The fix will be in the next release:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/ee0106b823575715842e4b45939ee355b8610ecf

donho

@Artur-Harison
Still cannot reproduce your issue with the file you provided.

Before

After

Is it rather a plugin issue?

Coises

@donho said:

Still cannot reproduce your issue with the file you provided.

@Artur-Harison said:
Autodetect encode off

With Audodetect character encoding not checked, Notepad++ sees the file as ANSI.

I think Artur’s complaint is that, after selecting Encoding | UTF-8 and then reloading the file, the explicitly set encoding does not stick; Notepad++ reverts to the encoding it “thinks” the file should be (ANSI).

I don’t know if that counts as a bug or as expected behavior.

Artur Harison

@Coises
1 file in utf-8
2 file opened in utf-8
3 after refresh, file toggled in ANSI
————-
@donho
You don’t need to change the file.
Need just open it and reload from disc.

Strange behavior. If you add spacebar anywere
Problem is gone. If again delete space, problem back. O_o
But it’s work a long 1401 line.
If edit after, problem remain.

All plugs off.
X64
Win10
Auto encode off.

Coises

@Artur-Harison said:

@Coises
1 file in utf-8
2 file opened in utf-8
3 after refresh, file toggled in ANSI

I don’t get quite the same result. If I open your test file, Notepad++ thinks it is “ANSI.” I have to change it to UTF-8 using the Encoding menu.

Strange behavior. If you add spacebar anywere
Problem is gone.

That is almost certainly this bug.

Edit to add:

If I rename your file to new_1_test.xml I get exactly the behavior you describe: it opens as UTF-8 but reloads as ANSI. That is surely a bug.

Artur Harison

@Coises
I think you’re right.
If you are encode utf 8 and safe. And reload. Against it’s be Ansi. But if add one spacebar. Problem is gone, but if again delete spacebar. Problem is back.
XML lang detector problem! ?
—-
File was edited in utf 8 format.
Encoding obey XML in first line of document.
But after reload, bufer reads as ANSI, and ignored specification encoding.

Artur Harison

This post is deleted!

donho

@Artur-Harison
I don’t think the 2 issues you have are the regressions.
Could you open these 2 issues on Github?

tordenflesk

My layout got corrupted/reset by this upgrade. Plugins etc. are installed but layout, themes fonts etc. are back to defaults:

quick way to restore?

upgraded / Installed via scoop.

PeterJones

@tordenflesk said:

My layout got corrupted/reset by this upgrade. Plugins etc. are installed but layout, themes fonts etc. are back to defaults:

quick way to restore?

Hopefully, it’s just that it used to point to local config but is now AppData, or similar. Can you share ?-menu’s Debug Info?

upgraded / Installed via scoop.

My guess is that the 8.9.8.1 fix for the 8.9.8 scoop problem somehow had that side effect. But that’s just my guess as someone on the periphery. With your Debug Info, one of the experts might have more insight.

rdipardo

@PeterJones said:

Hopefully, it’s just that it used to point to local config but is now AppData, or similar.

As a scoop user myself, I can confirm that it will configure Notepad++ for portable usage by default.¹ Removing the magic doLocalConf.xml file at %USERPROFILE%\scoop\apps\notepadplusplus\current is probably all that’s needed.

¹ This is one setting that’s not preserved during an upgrade (the other being the autoCompletion folder), while the contents of ${NPP_INSTALLATION_ROOT}\{backup,cloud,plugins,themes,userDefineLangs} are kept in sync by means of junctions between the canonical current folder and the versioned one. Someone should open an issue in the scoop repository, I just haven’t found the free time yet.

donho

@rdipardo said:

As a scoop user myself, I can confirm that it will configure Notepad++ for portable usage by default.¹

Thank you for the confirmation.
Are you saying that scoop changed their way to install Notepad++ due to the Regression of failure to open files via Notepad++ symlink paths in v8.9.8?

rdipardo

@donho said:

Are you saying that scoop changed their way to install Notepad++ due to the Regression of failure to open files via Notepad++ symlink paths in v8.9.8?

No. Scoop has always used junctions to persist the user’s config files — before and after v8.9.8 — by linking the (portable) installation directory to a stable %UserProfile%\scoop\persist\notepadplusplus folder, e.g.,¹

> dir %UserProfile%\scoop\apps\notepadplusplus\8.9.8.1

10/01/2026  08:01 PM    <DIR>          .
09/29/2026  06:20 PM    <DIR>          ..
09/24/2026  09:58 AM    <DIR>          autoCompletion
09/29/2026  06:20 PM    <JUNCTION>     backup [\??\C:\Users\Rob\scoop\persist\notepadplusplus\backup]
...
09/29/2026  06:20 PM    <JUNCTION>     cloud [\??\C:\Users\Rob\scoop\persist\notepadplusplus\cloud]
...
09/29/2026  06:20 PM    <JUNCTION>     plugins [\??\C:\Users\Rob\scoop\persist\notepadplusplus\plugins]
...
09/29/2026  06:20 PM    <JUNCTION>     themes [\??\C:\Users\Rob\scoop\persist\notepadplusplus\themes]
...
09/29/2026  06:20 PM    <JUNCTION>     userDefineLangs [\??\C:\Users\Rob\scoop\persist\notepadplusplus\userDefineLangs]

The problem I was mentioning is with the installation script (available here). Because it always downloads a portable release, the bundled doLocalConf.xml file is extracted — and kept — every time, whether or not the user wants to run in portable mode.

¹ Notice that autoCompletion is not soft-linked, probably by oversight.

donho

FYI: the auto-update is triggered for this release.

drunkaan-cloud

Search in Files not working (no result found where obviously there are) in this release. Reinstallation => NO SUCCESS. I had to revert to 8.9.8 to use it again.

PeterJones

@drunkaan-cloud said:

Search in Files not working (no result found where obviously there are) in this release. Reinstallation => NO SUCCESS. I had to revert to 8.9.8 to use it again.

v8.9.8.1 Find in Files works fine for me.

Please:

Try with all plugins disabled, to make sure it’s not a plugin issue
share ?-menu’s Debug Info
share your FIND WHAT (use ` before and after your search, like `my.*search` , so that the Forum doesn’t “eat” your search characters as post-formatting)
share all the options in the Find in Files dialog (Filters, Directory, Search Mode, other checkboxes – a screenshot would be easiest)
does your directory contain *.lnk to files or other directories? or windows junctions or symlinks or hardlinks?

minneyb-unix

The installation keeps failing in my user\appdata\roaming\Notepad++\ folder. It keeps saying that access is denied. Its access is granted.

xomx

@minneyb-unix

Maybe an antivirus or similar problem.

Yesterday, I had some false-positives even while trying to download N++ GitHub artifacts. I checked these "notepad++.exe"s via VirusTotal and these were flagged (only by the MS own Defender engine). Now it’s ok, so I’d try again.