Thanks for the tip.

Replace was where I was having the issue and it brings up some challenges that Find does not - basically, you would need a shortcut for “Ignore and Find Next” and one for “Replace and Find Next” and you’d have to remember those shortcuts.

@Coises; TBH, now that I’ve learned to resize the screen. I’m okay with it. I think most users have multiple monitors these days and use the find/replace dialog on the second monitor.

@Coises and @mkupper - I wasn’t aware of the caret button to move the dialog to two lines. I think that and an OPTION to dock the find dialog in the lower-right corner so I don’t have to re-size the screen would be perfect for what I want.

Again - none of this addresses the context issue - which isn’t a primary concern of mine, but I still think it should be accommodated, if possible.

@Ling-Ling ,

When you install Notepad++, it installs the right-click context-menu entry using a “Shell Extension”. The User Manual has an entire page on the Shell Extension, including a secion on how to unregister the Shell Extension so that the “Edit with Notepad++” entry goes away

@Alexander-Anisimov said in Notepad++ lags when text files are on FTP:

You may be right. In my understanding, WebDAV is another way of connecting protocol but still is FTP, although different.
May be I am wrong.

You are wrong. :-)

WebDAV is a protocol that is similar to HTTP that web browsers use with web servers. As WebDAV looks like HTTP on the network it works with NAT, firewalls, web proxies, etc. Accessing a WebDAV server is just like accessing a web server. Many web browsers have built-in support for WebDAV.

That said, if there are bandwidth or latency issues accessing a particular WebDAV server then all applications, including Notepad++ will be impacted.

WebDAV itself is not slow or laggy.

If I was stuck with needing to edit files that are on a slow or laggy server then I probably would create script that first copies the file to the local hard drive, runs Notepad++ on the file, and then keeps an eye on both the local and remote copies of the file. If the local copy changes then I push it out to the remote server. If it changes on the remote side then pop-up a warning. A tricky aspect is that Notepad++ allows people to exit Notepad++ and then resume editing. Thus I can’t depend on Notepad++.exe going away as a signal that I no longer need to monitor and synchronize that file but also need to watch Notepad++'s session.xml file.

@Marshall-Brooks said in Double Ctrl+F won't bring the find dialog to the front of the primary window.:

Also - somewhere along the way (8.81 or prior), Alan’s suggestion was implemented:

v8.3.3 in March 2022, so a few months after Alan’s 2021 post. See https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/wiki/Changes#833

@Alexander-Anisimov said in Copying file itself into clipboard in Notepad++:

how can I bind a hotkey something like Ctrl+Shift+C to it?

That’s explained in the FAQ. Search that page for “shortcut” (step 4 of the instructions) if you didn’t notice it.

@PeterJones

Sorry I wasn’t trying to stir up trouble. Either you are correct or I may simply have mangled things by going in the wrong order.

Here is a pic showing miswritten regex I found via AI, which was what I was trying to correct. I did not find the ErrorList language feature until after writing my initial post.

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@PeterJones
Many thanks!
Regards,
RPrinceton

@NebulaPulseX
MultiReplace covers the complexity you’re dealing with quite well. While it doesn’t support syntax checking, it handles regex, variables, and multiline edits. Bulk replacements work across all open files in Notepad++. Folder-based processing is on the roadmap.

@deleelee said in The 'shortcuts.xml' file is NOT re-created if you delete it, on purpose or by mistake !:

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding your meaning but, if the “exe” directory is the one containing notepad++.exe, the portable version does have shortcuts.xml there.

You ignored the context of the discussion: the specific question @guy038 asked was,

Is is normal that a default shortcuts.xml file is NOT created if absent in current folder ( for a portable version )

Or, phrases a different way: “if you delete the shortcuts.xml and start Notepad++, why doesn’t it re-create it with default shortcuts”

So, definitionally, if you’ve deleted the shortcuts.xml from the portable directory, there is no shortcuts.xml from which NPP can read the defaults, since NPP doesn’t have a .model for shortcuts.xml and it has no where else to look. (I was contrasting that to the normal installation, where if you delete the App data shortcuts.xml, NPP can recreate it using the shortcuts.xml in the exe directory)

@rinku-singh it’s been long & i forgot for what exact reason I asked. Thanks, anyway.

@Bernard-Schleich-0

I currently use

https://github.com/Tatsu-syo/noMeiryoUI

in Windows > 7 removed settings to adjust fonts in Notepad++ and other programs . In Preferences, General -> Reduce may need to be unchecked for OS settings to be used.

Size of fonts changed should be modest as larger sizes may not fit in the area allocated in the GUI.

Microsoft appears to want users to use Scaling instead of the legacy of WindowMetrics.

@mkupper said in Question(s):

I verified that at least for my current setup that the zoom level seems to have no affect on the printed results.

Same here. Perhaps I was unclear.

If I leave the zoom at default and adjust the font size for Default Style to be large enough for me to read easily on my monitor, I would set a font size of 14 or 16 points with Liberation Mono. (14 is bit smaller than I like, 16 is too big, 15 isn’t an option.) Those are too large for printing, though.

If I set Default Style to 12 points, printing is reasonable. If I then zoom in 3 steps, I’m just about where I want to be to read easily on the screen — without affecting printing.

The question I was answering was, “Why not just change your default font size?” Because that does affect printing (and, though I hadn’t remembered until I tried just now, also isn’t as fine-grained as zoom).

@Farhan-Yazid said in How to highlight text?:

Hi, any shotcut button to assign the highlight funtion?

By default, the Style One Token / Style All Occurrences of Token commands do not have keyboard shortcuts.

But if you use Settings > Shortcut Mapper, set Filter = style, you can choose any of them and use Modify to set a keyboard shortcut for that token-highlight style.
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(In case it’s not clear: Style all using Nth style in that dialog corresponds to Search > Style All Occurrences of Token > Using Nth Style [or the right-click context menu equivalent]; Style one using Nth style corresponds to Search > Style One Token > Using Nth Style [or the right-click context menu equivalent]. And for further clarification: the Search > Mark All that @Alan-Kilborn mentioned 6 years ago is the same as what’s now known as Search > Style All Occurrences of Token)

@ANDRES-MARIANO-MARTINEZ-PEÑA

Yo sólo utilizo versiones portables, es decir, versiones que no necesitan ser instaladas, sino que simplemente se copian en un directorio.
Para instalar un paquete de instalación sin entrada, hay que pasar el parámetro /S a setup.exe. https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/command-prompt/#installer-options.

I only use portable versions, i.e. versions that do not need to be installed, but simply copied to a directory.
To install an installation package without input, you have to pass the /S parameter to setup.exe. https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/command-prompt/#installer-options.

@PeterJones said in TranslateID (FolderName) in UserDefinedCommands (shortcuts.xml):

If you look again at the reference you linked, the TranslateID attribute is defined for the contextMenu.xml; however, the <Command> tags in the shortcuts.xml do not have that attribute listed as being available.

Thus, I do not believe what you are looking for is currently possible. Thus, I think you would have to follow the instructions in our FAQ to put in a feature request to ask the developer to add TranslateID to the shortcuts.xml <Command> tag.

Hello, @PeterJones.

I truly appreciate your quick response and such a clear explanation!

Indeed, upon rereading the documentation I referenced, I realized I misunderstood the use of the TranslateID attribute. It applies to contextMenu.xml, not shortcuts.xml, as I had mistakenly assumed. That was an oversight on my part, and I appreciate you pointing it out so objectively.

In my case, this was just curiosity based on that mistaken understanding. It’s not something essential for daily use of the application. I’m glad to have learned the actual scope of this functionality.

Thanks again for your kindness and clarification.

There is an issue about this:

Search function impracticality #10438

@Coises

As I read it, it seems that the OP wants their Preference to be updated if they use the Edit, Blank Operations, TAB to Space (or Space to TAB).

Of course, I too could be confused. The lack of detail does make the OP open to interpretation.

I’m with @PeterJones on this.

One is a “Preference”, the other a “one-shot function”. This function should not be making changes to a Preference. And at the moment it isn’t, which I believe to be the correct decision.

Terry

@Alan-Kilborn Hehe, “for in much wisdom is much grief”.