@MidnightGarden in addition to the configuration the @Terry-R mentioned, I usually have the Type column visible in my File Explorer windows: when you sort the view by Type, all files of the same type (TXT, CSV, XML, HTML, etc.) are grouped together. You should also be able to search for a specific extension, though the files will likely be presented in a different manner than you’re used to seeing.

@Neko_Kaioh

Finally, some actual assistance on this forum

I literally gave you the same solution he did (“If you want text in an HTML document to honor the formatting of a block of text, then you need to wrap it in <pre>...</pre>”, plus an alternative (CSS).

If you want to be mad at me because I had the gall to also tell you that your problem was with HTML’s behavior (which, BTW, @pbarney said as well – “it doesn’t care about linebreaks” was layman’s way of saying “HTML collapses all whitespace, including newlines”, which is the short version of what I already explained), fine, be mad. But don’t pretend that I didn’t also give you the same solution you were thankful for.

Hello again!

Small update: it looks like I got the repo (discussed in the PR), so in the future I’ll try to keep the WebEdit plugin up to date. 🎉

This is a huge honor for me, as WebEdit has been a cornerstone of Notepad++ for me for a very long time, and I still actively use it!

Although I’m primarily a PHP developer, since Modula-2/Oberon-2 is a PASCAL-like language (no offense intended!), and C# is hopefully close to my plugin written in C++ (I’ll continue this too!), I hope I can rise to the task. 🫡

So the v2.7.rc.3 release above (with a slightly different approach) ;) is still alive.

@webforpcnet seen similar issues before, also with other tools. Thing is accessing network drives (and even external plugged drives) triggers security and caching tools such as anti-virus, status utilities such as TortoiseGit, etc.

A separate check needs to be done using another crawler, such as a simple script dumping the file contents. Paste something like the following in cmd.exe:

@echo off rem Position in the target base directory pushd \\NAS\shared\code\ rem Iterate through all files in the subtree, assume all files, "*.*" for /R %i in (*.*) do ( echo Dumping '%i' rem Force reading file contents (but don't output them!), same as Notepad++ would type "%i" >nul ) popd

(I’m assuming the \ special character sequence got escaped in the report.)
If the speed is substantially better than Notepad++ then it might mean there’s a problem (this quick/dirty check cannot assess for any whitelisting or heuristics in the environment).

@Rich said in XML - insert rows without nesting:

I was missing a single “/”

I hate being bit by something so small but dangerous. :-)

If you don’t already have it, XML Tools plugin can help with XML syntax check: it can be automatic or on-demand. (If you are using XML>10Mb, you might not want to automatically do the syntax and validation checks; you can turn on/off those options in the XML Tools menu). But I think it might have helped you find that problem.

Thanks for help!

Glad to help.

@shodanx2:

Take a look at the documentation for Columns++ and see if it will work for you.

One of my goals when I wrote it was to never have to open a spreadsheet program again. (I hate them with a passion.)

It won’t draw the table lines as in your examples; instead, it depends on using tabs to separate columns. The Elastic tabstops option makes tabs adjust to the width of the column content.

You can do various column-oriented operations, such as sorting, searching, aligning left, right or numeric, and creating new columns based on calculations from other columns.

You can install Columns++ from Plugins Admin.

@PeterJones said in How to open documents in different windows?:

Settings > Preferences > Multi-Instance and Date > ☑ Always in multi-instance mode – every time you use Windows Explorer to double-click on a file (or similar) to open it with Notepad++, it will go in a new instance. (This will not change the behavior of File > Open inside Notepad++, which always opens in a new tab, not a new instance.)

Thanks for the answer.
Everything works.
Issue resolved.
Notepad++ is my favorite text editor.

Special thanks to you for the clarification about the publication of posts and for additional information on the topic of the question.

@TBugReporter

Sounds like the bug I fixed for the v8.7.5, so try to update to any N++ v8.7.5+ (ideally to the latest, as of now v8.8.5)

@kilson69
Notepad++ does not normally need internet to function, so this is probably due to a plugin or an unusual installation.

I would recommend that you share your debug info (?->Debug Info... from the main menu) and hopefully a forum regular will be able to use that information to give you more informed guidance.

@Steven-Young_ivanti said in Unattended install not actually executing from a PowerShell script:

The script line I’m using is fairly straight forward:

But opens questions, for me.

C:\Install\npp_setup.exe

What is this npp_setup.exe? Where did you get it? Is it a renamed copy of the official installer, or some repackaged installer?

/S ALLUSERS=TRUE

/S is a valid installer option on the official installer, to enable silent installation; but from anything I’ve ever heard, and searching the repo for ALLUSERS, the option ALLUSERS=TRUE is not understood by the official installer, AFAICT.

It’s going to be hard for anyone here to help you if you’re starting from some random unknown installer or trying to use options that don’t exist. You might need to give a bit more information.

The developer doesn’t support unofficial installers, and unless one of the regulars has happened to have heard of / used it, it’s not likely any regulars will be able to help you in the forum, either.

@PeterJones Thank you so much!! 💙

@Laura-Pla ,

If I have a long piece of text in Word and I try to add it to Notepad, it all comes out with strange characters. Is there a possible format that Notepad accepts, so I can format it later, or do I have to retype the entire text?

This forum is about the application Notepad++, not Microsoft’s notepad.exe app that automatically comes with Windows. If you are asking about the Microsoft app, we cannot help you. But I will continue my response assuming you meant “Notepad++”

If you copy text from inside MS Word and paste it in Notepad++ , it will properly paste the text. If you open the .docx Word file in Notepad++, then you will see a bunch of weird symbols like ETX and DC4 and NUL , and you cannot copy and paste that and expect that it will be “normal text” – our FAQ explains why it doesn’t work to open a .docx file in a text editor like Notepad++ (short version: because .docx is a binary format, not a text format).

If this isn’t enough of an answer for you, you will need to provide more details, including the ?-menu’s Debug Info and the exact steps you are taking to copy from Word to Notepad++. Screenshots could also help us diagnose your problem.

@Ekopalypse

Thanks much. My bad for even bringing it up, actually, since I already had back in 2021 and was advised about the lambda workaround at that time. Forgot about that.

it was Consolas!

Weird. I have never been able to get Consolas to give ligatures.

but here is the weird thing - i changed Consolas to JetBrainsMono (love the IntelijIDEA font xD).
It stopped auto-converting!

That’s truly weird, because JetBrains Mono has ligatures. JetBrains Mono NL is the version that doesn’t have ligatures (the NL literally means no-ligatures, as far as my research uncovered)

Now, reverting to Consolar…it no longer changes it !

Glad you got it to a state you like it. (However, I would actually recommend that you try to get used to the ligatures: those fonts were designed to be monospace even with the ligatures, so it helps your brain parse what you’re reading much easier, even more than just syntax highlighting alone. At first, I was opposed to the ligatures, but I forced myself to try the experiment for a week, and found when I tried to go back that I missed the ligatures. So now Fira Code is my go-to monospace font.)

@PeterJones said

mybrowser.exe file:///E:/dwgs/Json/OSM_tag_history/index.html?$(CURRENT_WORD)

This was the solution. upvote.

@Victorel-Petrovich Another good idea: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8037