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  • Announcements regarding our community

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    donhoD
    @Coises D. Users will probably strongly prefer one position or the other, not want to change it frequently. Put it in the Preferences instead of on the bar. The advantage of the Up/Down arrow being on the bar itself, rather than as an option hidden in the dialog, is that users can discover/notice this new feture as soon as they use Incremental Search. Moreover, a simple arrow on the bar is easier to understand than a long explanatory sentence buried in another dialog.

  • Frequently Asked Questions and Guides (about Notepad++ and this Forum)

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    PeterJonesP
    Corrupted Session Starting in Notepad++ v8.6.5, it will store session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak next to session.xml, and will automatically use that if session.xml is corrupted. However, if you ever find that you open Notepad++ (especially after an update or a system crash) and find that the files opened weren’t in the same state as when you let them, you can try this procedure: Exit Notepad++ Windows Explorer, go to %AppData%\Notepad++ (or in your appropriate config-file location if you aren’t using AppData for config) Rename session.xml to session.xml--keep Copy session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak to session.xml Run Notepad++ → If it’s now showing the right copy of your files, great! If not, exit Notepad++, delete session.xml, and rename session.xml--keep back to session.xml .

  • Notepad++ discussions that don’t fit in other Categories

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    @Mark-Olson That’s really helpful, especially the point about a huge single-line file being slower than a much larger file with shorter lines. I hadn’t considered that line length could make such a big difference to Notepad++ performance. I’ll definitely take a look at the Large File Restriction setting and the HugeFiles plugin as well. Thanks for sharing all these details!

  • Got a question? Ask away!

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    xomxX
    @Sevens99 said: I wonder if I’m the only one experiencing this issue. It’s a known problem of the modern NppShell, see the GitHub issue #15683 Most likely this is the culprit but I have no easy solution ready. Also no spare time to fix that (maybe during the end of year holidays), so your workaround (or similar) is what I currently recommend to do for the affected users (you don’t need to rename the NppShell.dll, unregistering that shell extension from within the admin-rights powered CMD by regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\contextMenu\NppShell.dll" will do it). What’s interesting - the problem manifests only on some PCs/configs (I, for one, have never encountered it).

  • Technical discussion of building or contributing to Notepad++ or Plugin codebases

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    Thomas KnoefelT
    Hi @guy038 , to your question about the 8 logical processors: they don’t really matter here. The load threads do very little computing, they mostly wait for the key to deliver the next file. How many reads can usefully run at once depends on the drive, not on the CPU. That’s why auto picks the count by drive type: 4 for local drives like your key, 8 for network drives, where every file waits for the server, and 1 for hard disks, where parallel reads would just make the heads jump back and forth. On a key with a weaker controller, 8 could just as well be slower than 4. On yours it’s slightly faster, so feel free to keep it. 8 is also the maximum. One more thing: your first comparison showed 27 053 hits in the same 646 files, now it’s 27 010. Did anything change on the key in between?

  • Security shouldn’t be the privilege of rich people

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    PeterJonesP
    same user also posted similar in this issue in comment in #17480

  • All the issues (publications/questions) about binary translation

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    @xomx Thank you very much for the work you have done, which will lead to improvements in Notepad++ in the future. I am very grateful to you.

  • Say fuck to Notepad++ here, and only here

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    PeterJonesP
    Rants like this are only allowed in the Boycott Notepad++ category, so I moved it from a reply in the General Discussion to its own topic here Do not reply to normal discussions with such rants.

  • No support request and bug report here, only unconditional praise and worship

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    @Maddox-Armstrong said: @FreeMeow I goon to Notepad++ :P 666还有蜥蜴人

  • Share personal tips and cool uses for Notepad++, and similar

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    S
    That’s a clever little experiment! I never really thought about using regular expressions to represent mathematical patterns like multiples of 3, but it makes sense when you look at the binary sequence. Definitely a fun way to explore just how powerful regex can be beyond ordinary text searching.

  • Computer/Programming Jokes are welcome here

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    Lycan ThropeL
    @xomx , Dave Bowman: "Open the pod bay doors, HAL. " HAL: “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” [image: 488a3017b34fe587.png]