Alan it’s fantastic!

At this part:7e90b315-4f05-4d67-b122-9ee3d534ba4f-image.png is it possible to enter more files into the filter list?

@Alan ,

TextShaping.dll is not a file that comes with Notepad++, nor is in in the right location for Notepad++ to be trying to load it as a plugin. If your copy of “notepad++.exe” is trying to access that DLL, scan those files and your entire computer for viruses!

@Rick-Kosters, .docx files are compressed files, so unless you’re able to uncompress them first, you’ll never be able to use a third-party program to search them.

For what it’s worth, 7-ZIP, Pkzip, WinZip, WinRAR, etc are all capable of opening those files. If you do unzip them, you’ll find a number of files and folders. What you’re looking for is most likely in word\document.xml.

Hi everyone!

I have some good news and bad news.

The good news is that I’ve finished WebEdit 2.9, which includes several new features: multi-select support, tag recommendations, quick tag addition/editing, and a few other minor upgrades.

The bad news is that I’ve actually finished all the essential features I wanted to implement, so I’m not planning any further developments for the time being. Of course, you can still report bugs/issues and even make minor development suggestions, but the goal remains to keep the plugin fast, lightweight and easy to use.

The overview of the (new) features is also available on the module’s main page: https://github.com/Krazal/WebEdit

What’s next: when I have time, I’d like to return to my own plugin, because it has been full of bugs for months (not my fault!). ^^’

Thank you for letting me contribute to this plugin, which I hope others will find just as great and useful as me!

@James-Burke-0 ,
In addition to what @PeterJones has explained, the only other thing you could do, is bring up dBASEPlus in the Language->User Defined Language->Define your language...User language drop down box, and then `Save As’ and give it a new name.

At that point, you can play with the settings, keywords, etc… all you want in your own named UDL. Because of the way the entire UDL ecosystem works, however, you’ll lose the ability to use the autoComplete file and the functionList file as well, because of their links to the UDL’s file names that those work with, as well as the overrideMap.xml linkage file, but you’d have JUST the UDL to adjust to your likings and then when you’re satisfied, you could go back to the original dBASEPlus UDL and put the changes that you want into the Dialog boxes for the language and then do as @PeterJones says, and just close and reopen the editor and your changes will be applied to the intalled dBASEPlus UDL definition.

If you don’t need the Function List or Auto Complete capability, you can just use your newly named version of the dBASEPlus UDL to view and edit dBASE specific files.

Just in case this is what you meant you wanted to do, to customize the dBASEPlus UDL without losing the original functionality of the original package. I hope this helps.

@Jerry-Scannell said in backward search doesn't work any longer:

All of a sudden searching backwards through a file doesn’t work and I have to have proper case for strings I am searching. Does anyone know about this? Is it a setting that has changed for some reason? I am using version 8.7.5 if that helps.
Thanks in advance,
Paul

That setting hasn’t changed since 2020 (v7.8.7).

If you are in Regular Expression search mode, you cannot do backward search, unless you have followed the User Manual instructions (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#preferences-for-advanced-users) to set the regexBackward4PowerUser attribute in the xml config file, and restarted N++.

But, as I said, this is nothing new. So a “sudden change” presumably was you choosing Regular Expression mode.

Thank you guys all so very much, now that I know that it’s a GVAS file, I’ll chase down that lead and try to get somewhere!!!

@Pieter-Hoeben

You probably have the “Search Mode” set to “Regular expression”. Change it to “Normal”.

@James-Burke-0 said in Avoiding Tabbed Spaces:

Is there a toggle for NPP to NOT insert tabbed spaces at the beginning of a line? Somewhere in Preferences, perhaps?

You probably want Settings | Preferences… | Indentation | Indent using: Space character(s).

@mpheath

I had to save the UDL with and it worked very well, thank you very much!

Just a heads up for recent N++ users, search for the text no-break space in Windows Character Map, select it at top left and copy/paste into a UTF encoded N++ window with Word wrap and View>Show Non-Printing Characters ticked, it shows up as NBSP highlighted.
Or, the character is pasted here on the next line:
 
Works at least in the unposted forum edit box - but not in the preview pane it seems.

@Juan-Delgado said in Windows ARM64 25H2 Notepad++ 8.8.7 doesn't start:

So, I uninstalled the Notepad

I think it helped due to completely deleting the N++ settings, namely the config.xml file. There is a N++ Smart Highlighting bug (already fixed for the next N++ version), more here: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/17126#issuecomment-3476961976

@PeterJones Thank you for the explanation and my apologies for the confusion. I meant for both sides of lines to have the same number of dashes. I guess I did not catch that.

Your regex code worked and that was what I needed. Thank you very much!

@flaviozluca said in Default LF and not CRLF:

Thanks but in short, so I cant change the default always to default LF?

In short, your statement is 100% wrong.

Notepad++ does save the default for new files, as I described above, in detail. Since you don’t seem to want to read that, I will shorten it for you: Open exactly one instance of Notepad++ (no more, no less). Set Settings > Preferences > New Document > Format (Line Ending) to Unix (LF). Exit Notepad++. Then the next time you start Notepad++, all new files you create will use that line ending.

This obviously doesn’t change the line endings on existing files – existing files are saved with the bytes for either CRLF or LF already. If you open a file that’s already saved with CRLF, you can change the line endings with the Edit > EOL Conversion … sub-menu actions, or by right-clicking on the line-ending indicator on the status bar.

@PeterJones

Changing only the ink color is much better than nothing, it works very well, thank you!

@Terry-R

Your second option \sR(\s|$) worked like a charm.

Thanks so much for the insight - huge help!

winget install Notepad++.Notepad++

I think the sandbox has winget. It has been a while since I have used it. Use -i if you want to select install options.