@PeterJones I appreciate your attempts to reproduce the problem.
I did note in my original post (which was a bit run-on, I apologize) that “no, I know that’s not right either, hm, because if the reload prompt is already up, then normally the user cannot click the close ‘x’, because the reload prompt modal dialog is already open”.

I’m also aware that this isn’t for someone to fix my problem. That’s why I posed it as “this thing happened”, “I’m unable to reproduce”, and “Well, for whatever little this report is worth…”

That said, I’m sure that I didn’t hit another key - I definitely clicked an ‘x’ in the Notepad++ window, and it definitely stayed open and threw away the session (both in that stayed open window, and when I clicked ‘x’ again to exit Npp and re-opened Npp).

Again, for whatever it’s worth.
-Jay

There’s also a way to put a selection’s word-count in the status bar; see HERE for that.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Why do updates reset some settings?:

A simpler method is to just pull version Y’s executable file into version Z, but just blindly doing that makes me nervous.

Yes, blindly doing the file replace makes me nervous too and it’s not really an option I’d go for. I’ve found the entries in config.xml all but one of the things I posted about so I can always create a script to change those back to my preferred options after updating. However, I don’t know what to look for in that file (or even if there’s an entry for it) for number 3 - Panels that were on the left are reset to the right. Are you able to help me with that?

@PeterJones

Okay, thanks. I guess I’ll just rebuild that app using the .exe.

@Jay-Libove said in File Status Auto-Detection did not notice a change (NPP 8.4.2):

Hm. This might be: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/11857

Most likely. The best plan is to watch for a fix there, and when it is fixed, see if it fixes your problem as well.

@sterling-advisory said in Forum email notifications:

ahan that is awesome i was confused before

Please note that the word “never” was written in 2020, when it never had previously worked. That feature was not enabled until 2021 – but since 2021, it has worked for some people with some email providers: for example, I have successfully had my confirmation email and can turn email notifications on and off with the expected results. The forum management is actively working on making it function more reliably when sending to other providers

Hello, @Геннадий-Гайдукевич, @neil-shcipper and All,

In the Find What: field of your picture, we see that searched string :

?__cft-.*

So, from your shown text, I suppose that the correct regex syntax is :

SEARCH \?__cft__.*

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Best Regards

guy038

@Amol-Tarte Hi @PeterJones
The problem is solved after removing BigFiles plugin.
Sorry for delayed reply and Thanks.

@Will-Pittenger ,

If you did the copy of the …\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ (also known as %AppData%\Notepad++ 🛈 – and Notepad++ has not put anything in …\AppData\Local since at least v7.6.3, and I don’t remember it putting anything in there prior to v7.6.x) while the destination Notepad++ was open (either on the source or the destination), then when you closed Notepad++ it would overwrite what’s there.

If Notepad++ was not open when you did the copy, then that should have copied over your current session, which would include full paths to every file that was open, and it would include your periodic-backup directory for unsaved files (if you have that option enabled) and those new # files would also be listed in the session file… so it should have copied all that.

But of course, that only applies with standard installations of Notepad++ with the normal file locations, which may or may not be how you are configured, either on the old machine or the new.

@Will-Pittenger said in Matrix room for Notepad++:

you probably have a Gitter room

The “gitter room” was shut down some time ago for Notepad++. I can’t remember the reason why.

Anyway, why do you feel a “matrix room”, a “gitter room”, or a “discord room” would be great things for Notepad++?

@alan-kilborn
This is what I need. Appreciate your prompt assistance, many thanks Cheer!!!.

@peterjones Ah-hah! Hadn’t noticed that sub-option. Fixed.

I made a suggestion for a replacement function for stringSplit(), to allow proper handling of mixed line-endings in the sort, but I did it HERE rather than, well, here.

The OP never made this a true feature request.

But it did get a mention in an issue HERE, by me.

@fly-wire ,

The colors chosen for Python lexer/syntax highlighting can be found in Settings > Style Configurator, and selecting Python from the language choices. The default colors in the default theme were somehow chosen by the developers in ages past; the colors defined in other themes were chosen by the theme creators.

The code that handles parsing the Python text and deciding which characters to color with each style are compiled as part of the Notepad++ application, and cannot be changed without re-building Notepad++ from source

@sagesse-magezi

normal text is the only document type that does not have a
so-called lexer assigned to it, so no coloring and folding is done.
If none of the existing lexers, like Python, Yaml, etc., can be used,
then you have to create your own, using a user defined language (udl).
The only drawback I can see is that a udl cannot apply folding by
indentation, only by defining an open fold token like { and a closing one like }.

@massefur

first value changes from Normal Text File to User Defined Language

The user defined language (internally called Lexer) formats the document according to your settings. For example, if you have assigned a different font, font size, or font attribute in addition to the color, this can easily lead to a different layout, especially when using word wrap. What exactly the problem is is hard to say without knowing what you have done.

@cam

Looks like it may be fixed in the next release.

Cheers.

@rdipardo ,

The debug instructions don’t trash anything – they temporarily rename a folder. I believe it is a solid debugging plan to try to narrow down where the problem is coming from. There are times when the plugin is at fault, even if it’s not because of the 64bit-only change in Notepad++.

But since it bothers you, the paragraph now emphasizes 64bit for the v8.3 change:

in the 64bit Notepad++, v8.3 updated the communication rules between plugins and the application to better handle large files (>2GB) which required all 64bit plugins that used certain protocol calls to release a new version.