@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.

@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.

@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.

@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: [image: 1753875700245-25400676-feb5-4a56-86ab-a9413176e83c-image.png] Then press Space two times, to obtain: [image: 1753875737124-f0784327-74d1-4788-8da2-7c1acf2b63f7-image.png]

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. [image: 38bd636a-95fa-48d2-9cf5-0398d9b5b592] 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.

@Kees-Alderliesten @Alan-Kilborn is right, e.g. #15639 or #15557. Notepad++ needs to be a Per-Monitor (V2) app. You can try this workaround: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/14337#issuecomment-1835791674

@notdodgeball thanks - I’ve changed it accordingly.

@guy038, Thanks to you, I not only solved my problem, but also became better acquainted with the possibilities of Notepad++. Best regards

@tnet-chrome said in Note++ file location: The file config.xml under %AppData% had the recent files list. But if I manually delete any recents, save the file and restart Notepad++ the same list of files is re-added. Why? Where from? Because those recents were still in memory when you exited Notepad++, and when Notepad++ exits, it overwrites the existing config.xml with those values from memory – even if you had recently manually edited config.xml. The user-manual section on Editing Config Files has a paragraph explaining how to edit config.xml, because it must be treated differently than the other config files (and config files in general have to be treated differently relative to “normal” files, as that entire section describes).

@xomx, thank you very much. When I selected another font (Ebrima), the problem was resolved.

@neeraj10786: While I don’t use it myself (and so can’t give detailed advice), it seems like the MultiReplace plugin by @Thomas-Knoefel would be easier to use than built-in methods. If this is a single-time problem, then the built-in methods others have given make sense; but if it is something you’ll need to do repeatedly, I’d check out that plugin.

Many thanks to @PeterJones and @Coises, for the answers, perspective, and (in Peter’s case) updating the User Manual. You are right, it was Cascadia Code; changing it to Consolas, for example, got rid of it. My “exhaustive” font testing was… only Cascadia Code and Fira Code, so I literally hit both of the two. I’ve been mostly using Hack font for such a long time, I just haven’t really noticed any of this ligature-supporting fonts. I just got a new PC and hadn’t installed Hack yet. I like finding out where I was ignorant and wrong. It makes me less so. Cheers and thanks again! –BrBill