Many thanks, Claudia. That’s it. Very much appreciated.

Cheers.

THANK YOU!!!

I am sorry for the delay in thanking you, I must wait 1200 between posts! And then the internet went out because of all the rain!

@Fly-Wire

delete your characters put the cursor into the next line, press and hold shift+alt click with the mouse into the position of the last line holding the data to be move ctrl+x go up to the line with the initial delete chars ctrl+v

Took longer this to write than to do.

Cheers
Claudia

see my response here (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15699/all-files-are-showing-up-as-symbols-in-notepad)

@Alex-Parfenov

Agreed that NPP is not an IDE, but, once one adds the proper plug-ins to it, these are some of the things that can be done with it:

Compile and link programs and jump to errors in the source code (NPP Exec) Tag and use tags on source files (TagsJump and TagsView) Keep many sets of files (sessions) at hand for editing (Session Manager) Easily compare editor files to files in source control and check in files (Tortoise SVN) Open files by name/pattern that are part of a solution (Solution Hub)

I suspect that a fair portion of long-time NPP users are programmers of one sort or another, and for good reason: it has a lot of features we use (syntax highlighting and the like) and it supports plug-ins that allow it to function pretty much like an IDE.

Good idea. I’m also interested in this.

@cipher-1024 Thank you for the answer. Good idea for workaround. At least highlighting will not fall into constant error.

@perlsmith

See here.

thanks a lot claudia and scott!

@Claudia-Frank

sorry, needs to be modified to

this is normal behavior as the lexer needs …

Cheers
Claudia

@fruv

I think you get a better chance to get this done if you follow what @PeterJones wrote here.

Cheers
Claudia

@fruv

This almost qualifies as a FAQ…or a FAFF (Frequently Asked-For Feature)…see here.

Hi,
I also have the same issue, and I just updated to the newest version. The problem was “gone” right away, because the AutoSave plug-in https://sites.google.com/site/fstellari/nppplugins wasn’t compatible and thus disabled (I downloaded 32-bit NPP by mistake).
So, for me at least, it seems that plugin causes the jumps whenever the program loses focus.

@Suanne-Minden

being able to make text bold would be great. These files need to be in .txt format not html.

There is no such thing as basic formatting (e.g. bold) in .txt !

to be able to pin most used files so they are readily available

You might try the Explorer plugin as it gives you a Favorites panel which I use as a “pinning” mechanism.

@Sam-Drost

I think this is a more direct link to what you are referring to.

I also think that you are correct, although probably a lot of Regular expression search mode users ignore the . matches newline checkbox and use instead (?s) or (?-s) at the start of their regular expression. Doing this makes unnecessary the need to know the 1024 mask value for the lParam of the 1702 message.

BTW:

(?s) at the start of Find what means effectively . matches newline checkbox ticked
(?-s) at the start of Find what means effectively . matches newline checkbox cleared

and:

. matches newline checkbox ticked means the 1024 mask value is used
. matches newline checkbox cleared means the 1024 mask value is not used

@Mutahar-Jy

See https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15318/replace-text-with-incremented-counter

@Arthur-Schwarez ,

For example, if we have a directory with lhsrhs and “lhs rhs” then a command such as “for i *;; do echo $i; done” will return “lhsrhs”, “lsh”, “rhs”, yielding three files instead of two.

You’re right, some scripts / syntax won’t work well on linux when there’s spaces in the name [see below for caveat]

Then again, the same is true on Windows: for example, the wrong C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe %1 as your “open” file association in the registry, vs the right "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" "%1".

Your linux example is in a slightly different syntax than I’m used to; which shell is it? On some linux systems I have access to: in an ancient (c. 2004) GNU bash 3.00.15(1), or in my old but more recent (c. 2011) GNU bash 4.2.37(1), the syntax for i in * ; do echo $i ; done worked as expected from the command line when it ran across a filename with a space: it printed that spaced filename on one line.

But even if you’re on a shell that doesn’t behave the same as my bashes, and really did split the filename over two lines, there should be a way around the problem. And in fact, it’s the same solution as you use in Windows: add quotes. I am betting that for i *;; do echo "$i"; done would work in that circumstance.

But, as @Scott-Sumner pointed out, if the spaces in the themes really bother you, then just rename them. Their name isn’t critical to their functionality.