• Please Read This Before Posting

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  • v8.7 Search Results Missing

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    xomxX

    This v8.6.9-v8.7.2 issue has been fixed (GitHub commit).
    The fix will be included in the next Notepad++ version (probably v8.7.3).

    @PeterJones
    I would leave this topic pinned for a while longer until the fix reaches most N++ users.

  • HELP: Having trouble with Macros in v8.5.3 or later

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    Mike NewmanM

    Moderator Note: The contents of this post were moved to a separate topic, Macro works normally, but fails when shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+C, because it’s actually separate from the >=v8.5.3 issue for this Topic.

  • update notepad++

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    PeterJonesP

    @lιƒєlιηє-__,

    Just press the question mark (?) button in Notepad++, located near the Windows key,

    The Windows key is a physical thing on the keyboard, the ? menu is a graphical element you can click in the Notepad++ menu bar. How a menu-entry can be “near” a key on your keyboard is completely and totally beyond comprehension.

    If you’re going to bother posting to a topic that had been answered and left dormant years ago, the least you could do is not bring in false information.

    (And the advice to “press the question mark (?) button … and click’Update Notepad++'” had already been given in various forms three years ago. So that added nothing new.)

  • Running a macro on all the open docs ?.

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    Alan KilbornA

    @Alan-Kilborn said in Running a macro on all the open docs ?.:

    Here’s the PS bug report: …

    The aforementioned bug is fixed in PS release 3.0.23.

  • "Join Lines" with trailing whitespace anomaly, older npp versions

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    Alan KilbornA

    @Neil-Schipper said in "Join Lines" with trailing whitespace anomaly, older npp versions:

    I couldn’t see a way to edit the commit msg

    Well, the owner of it would be the only one with the power to edit it.

    or even leave a comment

    Not everything is commentable.

    so I invite a keener to fix it as the task is beyond my weight class

    No one would really want to expend the tedious effort required to fix it (make the links go to the right place). It’s an unfortunate copy/paste result. Perhaps in the future more attention will be paid to it and Notepad++ could be used to replace # with “base url to Scintilla bug list site”.

  • Read-Only does not work

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    Alan KilbornA

    @Alan-Kilborn said:

    Ideally there would be three options:

    clear readonly (as it now functions) make readonly in Notepad++ (as it now functions – only disallows you from editing in the buffer – file system attribute unaffected) set readonly (currently missing! would set the readonly attribute in the file system as well as disallow editing in N++ buffer)

    In Notepad++ 8.8.2 and later are two “new” checkmarkable choices at the bottom of the Edit menu:

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    I use quotes because they aren’t entirely new; they replace old items whose functionality has been reworked a bit to cover all needs.

    The menu text is fairly self-explanatory for the functionality.

    Really, the only new part of it is that the readonly attribute in the file system can now be set as well as cleared.

    One more bit of newness: When the file system’s readonly attribute is set on a file, its tab icon will appear with an F on it, presumably standing for “File System”. (Truly, it would have been better for the menu text to have been “Read-Only Attribute in File System”…)

    Also, there can be a double level of protection: If Read-Only in Notepad++ is set first, then the Read-Only Attribute in Windows is applied, Read-Only in Notepad++ will be greyed but still checkmarked. Later if Read-Only Attribute in Windows is removed, Read-Only in Notepad++ will again be enforced.

    I’m sure all this and more appears in the user manual, I’m just modernizing an old thread here in case someone reading this is confused by the now outdated info above.

  • Add New Line Automatically After Pasting

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    PeterJonesP

    @Fern99 ,

    A few years back, I shared a macro here that pasted the clipboard and then adds a newline sequence. I think this is what you want.

  • Notepad++ replacing '!='

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    PeterJonesP

    @Michael-Goessmann-Matos said,

    @PeterJones

    Actually, I configured Notepad++ to update as soon as an update is available so I wonder how this could have happend.

    As I said above,

    or you previously had an older version that got upgraded without changing your setting (if you originally had DirectWrite off, and upgraded to a version that had it on by default, it would not generally overwrite your previously-saved setting).

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    @PeterJones said:

    The script he was linking to is now in the second post in this topic.

    OK.

    I think the use of “script” for that (OP’s usage, not Peter’s) is a bit confusing.
    It’s just a command-line invoking Notepad++, albeit a rather complex one.
    I understand that it could be called a “shell script”, of course.

  • Legacy Print dialog freeze (Windows)

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    Alan KilbornA

    @PeterJones said in Legacy Print dialog freeze (Windows):

    In Emacs (and possibly other unixy apps), control key combos are indicated with…

    Nice to know, I guess, but I could’ve lived without that knowledge. :-)

    As Notepad++ is a Windows (only) app, let’s try to stick to its (and Windows’) notations when discussing it: Ctrl+X Current Microsoft notation

  • How does one create a desktop icon for this program please?

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    @Alan-Kilborn said in How does one create a desktop icon for this program please?:

    You should distill that down into something exactly applicable to Notepad++

    Good point.

    The command prompt code below will create a simple shortcut on the Desktop that shows the various command line arguments that NP++ supports in a pop-up before launching NP++ itself. The ICON-based pieces can be omitted if you prefer the standard icon, and PF may need to be adjusted depending on where you actually installed NP++ to.

    set PF=%PROGRAMFILES(x86)% set TARGET='"%PF%\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"' set STARTIN='"%USERPROFILE%\Documents"' set SHORTCUT='"%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\NP++ - help.lnk"' set ICON='"%PF%\Notepad++\updater\updater.ico"' set ARGUMENTS='--help' set PWS=powershell.exe -Command %PWS% "$ws = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell; $s = $ws.CreateShortcut(%SHORTCUT%); $S.WorkingDirectory = %STARTIN%; $S.TargetPath = %TARGET%; $S.IconLocation = %ICON%; $S.Arguments = %ARGUMENTS%; $S.Save()"
  • Font size and toolbar too small in Linux

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    possible AI spam?

  • help disabling smart quotes

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    @Dave-Lang
    I’m not familiar with your problem but your issue did make me recall a previous post here.

    It might have occured as you just updated the version of Notepad++ from a very much older one, or possibly changed to a different font.

    Anyways, read that post and maybe you might find the answer.

    Terry

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  • What makes notepad++ capable of making an html ???

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    PeterJonesP

    Since this has come up twice in the last couple months, I have cleaned up the instructions and split them off into a dedicated “FAQ: Using the GCC version of Notpead++

  • Keyboard shortcuts from external apps not working

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    @Ekopalypse said in Keyboard shortcuts from external apps not working:

    @Bernard-Danino

    Right, that’s strange.
    I use Deepl, there is also the shortcut ctrl+c+c and as you can see in this screenshot, it works.

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    Understood. I passed it on to Reverso. Maybe they have an explanation, although the ticket I opened over there didn’t yield anything. Maybe this new info will get them going.
    Thanks

  • How to use VS Code keymap in Notepad++?

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    Hi, I ran into the same issue.

    I unfortunately don’t have enough time to manually check every single vscode keymapping, but with the courtesy of an LLM I was able to generate a “good enough” shortcut map that has all the functionality I need, which is mostly just alt+up/down and ctrl+/

    https://gist.github.com/nopeless/b18fe37105fd165cd9c637d4a2a2b48b

    Here is the link

  • Some files no longer load. Many files are missing in the document list.

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    @john-murphy ,

    I had delayed responding, because I’m not sure I understand exactly what’s going on for you. I was hoping someone else understood your post better, so they could provide help. But since it’s been a few days with no response, I will chime in saying, “I am confused”.

    I try to load a file I use often and it opens a workspace

    How do you load the file? Windows Explore double-click? Windows Explorer right-click and picking Edit with Notepad++? Notepad++'s File Open or toolbar equivalent? Double clicking on the filename in the View > Folder as Workspace’s panel? Double clicking on the filename in the View > Project Panels > Project Panel N? Something else I haven’t thought of?

    I cannot think of any way to get any of those actions to launch the project/workspace panel or folder-as-workspace panel. (Those last two had to manually open the panel first, before double clicking, and double clicking would still open the file.)

    About the only thing I can think that would change Notepad++ to automatically open a “workspace” instead of a file would be if you had set Settings > Preferences > MISC’s Workspace file ext: to an extension that happened to match your file’s extension (in this case, I think you want Portguese general.txt, and it would really surprise me if you’d set that extension setting to txt); but if you did that, and the content of your file was the right XML to match a workspace definition, then Notepad++ would open that workspace instead of opening a file. But that doesn’t quite sound like your symptoms, and it would be really confusing to me.

    I think you need to explain more step-by-step what you are doing – maybe even with screenshots at various points along the way, so we know exactly how you got to where you are.

  • Cannot change Encoding to correct encoding of UTF-8

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    @Coises said in Cannot change Encoding to correct encoding of UTF-8:

    Open Settings | Preferences… | MISC. and look for Autodetect character encoding.

    Thank you for your suggestion, this liitle “trick” with unchecking Autodetect fixed the issue for me