@PeterJones said in auto-complete only if the word is much longer than what you typed:

I apparently have nothing better to do. ;-)

Haha, that’s a good one :) . It must be an important part of your life, by now.

It seemed to be leaning that way, at least in my first read, but maybe I over-interpreted it.

It could be; I have focused exclusively on the parts of disagreement; the quotes “” could be misinterpreted as criticism. I need to remind myself to add a few small-talk words here and there and adopt more of “let them disagree…” mentality.

When I am just one letter away from the word I want, I will probably have finished typing it before the auto-completion has more than just popped up, anyway.

Yes, that’s the scenario that gave me the idea. To reduce the visual distraction.

I do like that N++ allows me to customize which of those keys chooses an auto-completion, but since other apps don’t get me the choice, I still always seem to get a word completed in at least one app when I was trying for just the tab or newline.

One thing that may help with that is to have more choices of keys for that “Insert Selection”. I might use “shift+enter”. To accomodate many choices, perhaps it were better customized via Menu/Settings/Shortcut Mapper.

Alternatively, perhaps it could be made so that the pre-selected word in the pop-up list is greyed out/ partially selected, so that you’d press “arrow-up/down” once to actually select it (confirm selection) then either “enter”/“tab” or another “arrow up/down” to select a different entry

Oh, sorry for the rant.)

Rants are good! :D Often only this way we find out what people really think and that a change is needed.

Settings > Preferences > Auto-Completion > Make auto-completion list brief at least helps trim out words that are no longer valid, so that reduces the length of the distractive list when you’re close to done typing it (so having typed ex, it might show exit extern, but once you type the i, it will eliminate extern)

Thanks for the tip, I didn’t know that.

I’m not that hung-on on this idea. It was like a bulb lighting up this morning in my head and got curious what people think !
@donho , do you use auto-completion much?

@Walter-Cook said in Using Notepad++ Together with ChatGPT for a Faster Workflow:

Is there a preferred “Language” to use before pasting into Notepad++?

If the Generative AI nonsense is pretending to be C++, then use Language > C > C++; if it’s pretending to be Python, then use Language > P > Python; if it’s pretending to be markdown, use Language > Markdown (preinstalled). If it’s pretending to be plain text, use Language > None (Normal Text)

Remember, Generative AI is not thinking, and is not actually generating anything with meaning. It is just picking a long list of likely “next token” (effectively, “next word”, but not technically) based on the prompt and what it’s generated so far.

Copying from ChatGPT or any of the AI’s interfaces seems to be pretty messy!

Then find a better UI? There are various frontends to those “tools” which can help. (I know that Google’s AI Studio interface, for example, has a button to allow copying the underlying Markdown that their LLM produces, so something like that might be better formatted than the rendered stuff directly from the browser.)

Admin Note: as @Alan-Kilborn said, this conversation really shouldn’t be under the “Help Wanted” category, so I am moving it to the “General Discussion”

@Walter-Cook

If you have a few favorites of the “Line Operations”, you could add them individually using the “Customize Toolbar” plugin.

@Dimitris-Theocharidis

Copy the Search results text to a new tab and then set the language for that tab to be the UDL you’ve created?

@rdipardo

That’s what I thought too, I was just surprised that the port didn’t have it, hence the question.

There’s a hard-coded limit of 100 characters for property names; the property inside “hello3” has 101. It’s a known issue.

I’m very certain that I’ve attempted, unsuccessfully, to paste multi-line text into FIND/REPLACE/MARK etc. string input zones many times, going back 10 years or more, though I always assumed that any line ending sequence was disallowed (I pretty much always use CRLF, myself). Of course, at least with the appropriate setting (I forget specifically, but think offhand that there is a setting for it), if you have text selected before you open the FIND/REPLACE/MARK dialog, that text then populates the FIND WHAT field, line endings and all. I just wish I could see them when they’re in there.

@PeterJones Thanks! 🙂

@PeterJones Thank you. As far as I can see, the function has not been removed. Before concluding this, I downloaded the versions one by one and checked the settings to see if it was still there. I was only able to find an option under “Default Directory.” My issue is now resolved. Thank you.

@PeterKee said in Undo/Redo (CTRL+Z/CTRL+Y) behaves unexpectedly after a few hours (NppFTP, NPP 64-bit, Win11):

Has anyone else experienced this?

Sounds similar as the infamous GitHub issue #9426.

This never happened with the 32-bit version,

Oldest report there is for Notepad++ v7.9 (32-bit), so some users had it even for the 32-bit N++.

I fixed one such problem but users still report occasionally occurrences of it, so it’s clear that there should be more code to fix. Unfortunately, so far I could not reproduce (so cannot fix it…) and the users have not been able to describe 100% reproducible steps. So if you find such a STR, it will be great.

@PeterJones said in Applying Diff patches?:

I commented on that Issue to request that apply patch be considered alongside create patch.

as mentioned here, as of ComparePlus v2.0.0, the plugin can generate and apply standard patch files; see also the release notes. Thanks to @pnedev for the update.

(Until it makes it into the Plugins Admin, the new version can be manually installed from the zipfiles found on the v2.0.0 release page)

@Coises Thanks, it was the smart highlighting. Problem solved.

To expand on the explanation, for a small number of lines, put the caret in column 1 of line 1. Press Shift+Alt+DownArrow multiple times, enough so that a “skinny but tall caret” appears before the column 1 data in all lines, to wit:

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Then press Space two times, to obtain:

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ConfigUpdater Plugin v2.2.1

ConfigUpdater Plugin has released v2.2.1, available thru GitHub release page, with bugfix improvements, mostly to Validation Dialog:

Error handling for null handle ⇒ to prevent potential crashes Disable logfile Monitoring Mode ⇒ it triggers callbacks for many file-changed events, which can bog down setups that use plugins/scripts that add many callbacks Fix progress bar on ConfigUpdater dialog ⇒ makes more-visible progress as each file is processed ValidationDialog: say Line#123 instead of #123 in the Validation dialog error list ⇒ Makes it more clear to the user that the number is the line number, not just some internal tracking number ValidationDialog: Rename Done -> Close ValidationDialog: Rename Go to Model -> Open/Align Model in Other View ValidationDialog: Disabled Validate button when no file selected ValidationDialog: Add ephemeral “Please select a file to validate” choice as initially-selected “file” for validation, which will go away once you’ve made a choice ValidationDialog: Open/Align Model now allows opening the model even when there are no validation errors (or when you haven’t even validated yet) it was previously not allowed because the vector it was looking at to find which line number in model-file was 0-length if there were no errors (or no validation done yet); I was able to update the logic to choose line 0 if there was no selection or no validation errors Update langs.xsd to check for duplicate <Keyword name="xyz"> entries NOTE: if you want this feature, you have to delete the old ...\plugins\config\ConfigUpdater\langs.xsd before launching the ConfigUpdater or ValidateConfigFiles dialogs (only need to delete the file once; after it is regenerated, the new error checking will be available in the future) Only allow one Validator dialog ⇒ It could cause problems if more than one dialog were trying to validate at the same time, and there is no compelling reason for allowing multiple instances of that dialog

Well, I submitted a feature request. It is here:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/16852

Any feedback or suggested edits or improvements would be greatly appreciated!

@PeterJones thank you. I completely overlooked this new page in preferences.

@Coises said in NotePad++ preview plugin? I can't find it.:

It looks as if [Preview HTML] exclusively uses Internet Explorer rendering…

F.Y.I.

Preview HTML’s browser host was recently updated to Microsoft Edge.

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You will need Windows 1709 (build 10.0.16299) or a later version to use it. For that reason, I’m not planning to update the Plugin List until some time after consumer editions of Windows 10 pass their EOL date in October.

@PeterJones

Hello again Peter! Thanks for the advice. When I said “hate hate hate” I meant that as more tongue-in-cheek. Maybe that was the wrong foot to put forward first. Sorry if I honked you off. I certainly wouldn’t bring that energy into a feature request.

Edit: I get what you’re saying about essential features of Notepad++. It seems like if there’s an option to turn off, say, current line highlighting, it would make sense to include an option to turn off brace highlighting. I’m sure it won’t surprise you to know that I disable current line highlighting, for much the same that I want to disable brace highlighting – I find it distracting.

Anyway, I’ll throw up a feature request, and if it is never implemented, I’ll deal with it. Overall I love Notepad++ very much.