@James-Trowbridge ,

Personally, I have always used the ancient Windows OS feature charmap.exe for accessing special characters – I have it saved in my Notepad++ Run menu with a keyboard shortcut to make it easy to access from Notepad++ … once it pops up, I choose “Group By: Unicode Subrange” and pick the category (“subrange”) of characters to choose from.

But I just tried @guy038’s Win+; (and I think his “or” was meant to be Win+. instead of a second semicolon-based shortcut, because that’s the shortcut that the Emojis and Symbols panel told me to use when I first invoked it by Win+;… but now it’s stopped showing me that) – I might have to try to remember this one, because it might be faster (and supported longer into the future) than the old charmap.

@jim-murray ,

Boy, wouldn’t that be nice. Too bad the Notepad++ Developer doesn’t have a budget and manpower of Microsoft-proportions helping him implement features. ;-)

BTW: HTML doesn’t have variables or functions. Are you really talking about the JavaScript embedded in an HTML document?

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Addendum: one of the power users here is currently working on developing an LSP (“Language Server Protocol”) client plugin for Notepad++: LSP is what Visual Studio uses for linking to various “LSP servers” which can give it augmented right-click and code-completion features that go beyond the code-completion that Notepad++ provides by default. Assuming that an LSP server exists for the language of your choice (his examples show ones for Python, V, and D; there might be one for HTML/JS/ASP/PHP/etc or some subset thereof). So once that plugin is ready for prime time, and if an LSP server existed for the combo of web technologies that you are programming for, you might be able to get some or all of the feature set you’re looking for (eventually).

Additionally, there are a variety of HTML and web-related plugins already available for Notepad++, and while waiting for the full features of LSP, some of those might help make your development easier.

I must use the Installed Version of Notepad++, not the Portable Version as to work.

Lest other readers of this thread believe it, it is not true.

I made a Python script

Well, how exactly did you do this?

If you did Plugins > Python Script > New Script, and give your script a name and some lines of code, after you Save it for the first time you can go to Plugins > Python Script > Scripts and it will be shown there.

However, if you create a new .py file in the ...\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts\ folder in some other way, it will not show up in the menus until after you restart Notepad++.

Using the New Script method, there’s an automatic way for the plugin to know to modify the menus right away. Using any other method – how could it know? At startup of N++ (and thus the plugin), it scans the scripts folder to build the menus the initial time, so it finds all existing scripts at that time.

@achalk ,

Technically, it does still exist, but it is not maintained, and is only available for 32bit Notepad++ .

Of course it was stupid of me to even think that that could be not a Windows problem.

But what is peculiar is that this issue is somehow connected to the pointer color (or rather the scheme color).

I’m using Windows 10 and if it is Mouse Properties > Scheme > Windows Default (system scheme) then everything looks okay, but Windows Black (system scheme) gives me that “ugly” pointer that is shown above.

If not a zoom indicator in status bar, may be an indicator directly in the “View/Zoom” menu?
So as it is in XnView - see picture.

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Follow the issue: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10389

@Alexandre-Hagihara ,

The slashthrough U+0337 character you showed is a pretty fancy Unicode character, because it is a “combining”/“overlay” glyph, and some fonts have trouble with them. Your selected font may be different for normal mode vs Dark Mode, so maybe the font you have selected in Dark Mode has different Unicode coverage.

But also there is some other behind-the-scenes font-related magic that affects how Unicode is rendered, so even if your font is okay, there might be oddities. Try toggling Settings > Preferences > MISC > Use DirectWrite to see if it draws those characters better (more in the usermanual).

@Von-Galin ,

I second @Alan-Kilborn’s assessment that it’s a good idea.

If you put in the feature request (and if it doesn’t exist alredy, please do create the issue: I would offer to, but the developer honors feature requests from average users a lot higher than feature requests from those of us who hang out in the forums), you could suggest that the setting get saved as an attribute in the <mainView> and <subView> tags, like <mainView activeIndex="1" size="75%"> – that seems the natural place to store that setting.

@pnedev Thanks that appears to be it. I had an fopen in a library to which I was linking and it had no fclose. Seems to work now. Thank you very much for the catch!

@Von-Galin said in Show Search Results in Reverse:

Is it possible after performing a normal search to show the results (line numbers) in reverse, e.g. last lines first ?

No.

If I scroll down the results and work bottom-to-top, this doesn’t occur since the edits are below the “next” search result.

This is the solution, which you’ve already found.

@Jay-S said in Trying to add keywords for PowerShell by editing Langs.xml:

I added just one additional keyword: “start-process” that you can see listed first from below:
<Keywords name=“instre2”>start-process add-content add-history add-member add-pssnapin clear-content clear-item clear-itemproperty clear-variable compare-object convertfrom-securestring convert-path convertto-html convertto-securestring copy-item copy-itemproperty export-alias export-clixml export-console export-csv foreach-object format-custom format-list format-table format-wide get-acl get-alias get-authenticodesignature get-childitem get-command get-content get-credential get-culture get-date get-eventlog get-executionpolicy get-help get-history get-host get-item get-itemproperty get-location get-member get-pfxcertificate get-process get-psdrive get-psprovider get-pssnapin get-service get-tracesource get-uiculture get-unique get-variable get-wmiobject group-object import-alias import-clixml import-csv invoke-expression invoke-history invoke-item join-path measure-command measure-object move-item move-itemproperty new-alias new-item new-itemproperty new-object new-psdrive new-service new-timespan new-variable out-default out-file out-host out-null out-printer out-string pop-location push-location read-host remove-item remove-itemproperty remove-psdrive remove-pssnapin remove-variable rename-item rename-itemproperty resolve-path restart-service resume-service select-object select-string set-acl set-alias set-authenticodesignature set-content set-date set-executionpolicy set-item set-itemproperty set-location set-psdebug set-service set-tracesource set-variable sort-object split-path start-service start-sleep start-transcript stop-process stop-service stop-transcript suspend-service tee-object test-path trace-command update-formatdata update-typedata where-object write-debug write-error write-host write-output write-progress write-verbose write-warning</Keywords>

And… no dice:

I followed your example, but added the start-process in the alphabetical location within that area and it highlights correctly.

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Terry

@Loopbuilder ,

Without re-writing Notepad++, there is no way to change the speed or add caching.

And the “Please Read This Before Posting” links to the “Feature Requests and Bug Reports” FAQ, which explains that we in the forum have no power to make edits to the Notepad++ code.

@SimpleUser said in [Suggestion] Switching tabs using the mouse wheel:

Please develop this option.

It isn’t going to happen.
Just accept the behavior as it is.

@Daniel-Hitson ,

Use Notepad++ v8.0 or newer (right now, I’d recommend 8.1.5), and Settings > Preferences > Dark Mode will give you full dark

@Lee-Fischman ,

The UDL was not designed to allow indentation for code folding – it only allows keyword-based code folding.
To get indentation-based code-folding, you would have to write a lexer plugin for Notepad++.

If there are any other features of Workflowy that you want to know if they are possible to replicate in Notepad++'s UDL system, you will have to describe it in more detail than “can it be like Workflowy”, because as I said four months ago, we aren’t experts in Workflowy, and only you know which features of Workflowy you would like to have in Notepad++.

@Roberts-Rozis

As mentioned in the Please Read This Before Posting pinned to the top of the General Discussion section, just below the “NEW TOPIC” button you clicked:

Please note that while we will try to help you, and even can try to confirm software bugs with you, this Forum is not the official issue tracker. If there is a bug in Notepad++, posting about it in this Community Forum will not make an official request to get the bug fixed. We have a FAQ entry on Feature Requests and Bug Reports. If you ask for a new feature, or point out a bug in Notepad++, we will be quite happy to give our opinions on your ideas, or help provide workaraounds or alternatives for missing features or bugs; but in the end, only the developers can make changes to the application.

In the spirit of that post, my opinion is that it’s not a critical feature; personally when searching files, I usually either want just one directory (which you can do), or the whole recursive structure (which you can do); I cannot think of a time when I’ve only wanted to go to this directory and n below it. But I’m not the deciding vote on whether something gets implemented.

Thank You!
I would never had figured that out.

@PeterJones
It worked, I found this styler.xml file and it was from 2015, I copied it from Windows 10 to Windows Server and colored everything.

Thanks