@Susan-Pemble Besides the things @PeterJones suggested you could also try double clicking the title bar area at the top of a window. That will toggle the window it between being a resizable “window” and being full screen maximized.

It may also help for you to post a screen shot of the window you are asking about much like the screen shot you made of Notepad++'s About dialog box in your first post.

Thanks for straightening this out, it was driving me crazy!

@Mike-Albers said:

(?s)^(?:[^\r\n;];){N}.{0,3996}\r\n|^((?:[^\r\n;];){N}.{0,3996}).?\r\n|^(?:[^\r\n;]?)\r\n

Unfortunately, your regular expression was corrupted because you didn’t post it correctly.
Probably a moderator will come along and examine your “raw” original post and correct it.

@Claudia-Svenson said in How to enable syntax highlighting for *.ps1 Powershell script files?:

How can I enable syntax highlighting for *.ps1 Powershell script files?

Which Theme are you using? It’s possible that your theme file is out-of-date, or that you are a using a theme that has never had the powershell highlighting added, which would prevent Notepad++ from syntax highlighting, even when it is named blah.ps1.

Please see my post here explaining why; and the User Manual’s Themes: Keeping Stylers/Themes Up-to-date entry for more.

@xomx

The problem with uncheckmarking Auto detect character encoding is that most times you want Notepad++ to autodetect the encoding.
It’s only when it does it wrongly that you don’t want it to. :-)

@Lycan-Thrope ,
In hindsight, and after re-reading the issue, it seems that other than the app change removing the AppPosition from the config.xml file(unlikely?), @Alan-Kilborn 's suggestion would be the best for using his GoogleDrive Cloud setup with just one config.xml for multiple machines. He has already rebuffed that, so unless he reconsiders, I guess we’ll have to wait and see if his feature request gets approved and implemented. Moving on.

@Mark-Olson said:

the core developers of Notepad++ prefer Microsoft Visual Studio to Notepad++ for working on the Notepad++ source code. Make of that what you will.

That’s probably because an IDE is wanted for this work, and, as you say, Notepad++ is not the greatest IDE.

and most major programming languages (like the C or C++ it appears you are writing) have better productivity tools elsewhere.

Well, I for one have done pretty well with only Notepad++ for embedded C/C++ work, as well as Python work.

@Ramses505 said in Run multiple search and replace - one after another:

Out of interest - can I run some sort of python script that would do this as well ?

Yes. If you already know Python, the PythonScript plugin can let you automate Notepad++ with Python.

If you don’t know Python, this forum is not the place to discuss how to learn Python. There are countless tutorials on the internet for that purpose. I’ll just mention the re library and leave it at that.

@mathlete2 said in Unable to see Data in the Notepad++:

FWIW, the Delete part was misleading; the actual instructions say to rename the config file, which backs it up.

You are right, they gave conflicting instructions, saying to “delete/reset” the config file, but then “actually” only saying to rename it. But in general, their advice was bad – and elsewhere, in posts that another moderater had already deleted, that person spammed with links to their own website, which I confirmed had nothing to do with Notepad++, despite claims in the spam posts that going to their website would help solve a N++ problem. They were a spammer, probably assisted with generative AI posts, both of which are forbidden here and grounds for immediate banning.

Ah, right. I’ve written so many FAQ for the Community, I forgot FAQ: How do I … Convert my Text exists. That might explain things better, since it had more time put into writing it.

@guy038 Sorry, that does work. I somehow slipped in a space before the RegEx in the MACRO

@PeterJones Thanks a lot for your reply. It was that setting. I have the latest Npp version and it is a checkbox for me. I disabled the DirectWrite, restarted and characters are again visible.
I don’t recall changing that setting in the past, and I don’t think I have installed any extension recently, so I don’t know how this could have happened.
It could be that the setting was like that already but something in windows changed. I don’t know. But once again many thanks!

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you Alan.

@Coises said in Npp v8.7.8 or later hangs for `^.{0,20}` at the end of a file:

Leading comma within curly braces is not a valid syntax, so it’s searching for the beginning of a line followed by any one character and then the literal characters {,20}.

Python’s re allows that syntax of omitting the minimum repetition. To use {,20} instead of {0,20} would be like learning a bad habit compared to Boost or other regex libraries.

https://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrepattern.html quote:

An opening curly bracket that appears in a position where a quantifier is not allowed, or one that does not match the syntax of a quantifier, is taken as a literal character. For example, {,6} is not a quantifier, but a literal string of four characters.

This is stated explicitly that {,6} is a “literal string”.

@PeterJones That fixed the issue. Thank you for your help!

@Sam-J said in Line operation that deletes first word on each line:

Is this functionality still available?

Not exactly.

But you can do a regular expression replacement:

Find: (?-s)^\w+ +(.*)
Replace: ${1}

@anna-cluckers ,

Notepad++ itself doesn’t have a way to grab a file off of the old laptop.

If you had an external backup of the file, you could copy it from the backup to your new laptop, but it’s doubtful that you’d be asking for our help if you had a backup.

If you had saved your file in a OneDrive or Dropbox or similar cloud folder, then you would be able to download the file to your new laptop from that web service; but, once again, you wouldn’t be asking us for help if it were that easy.

Depending on how bad the “crash” was on the old laptop, the things I can think of:

if you can boot the old, then you should be able to copy the file onto a thumb drive and put it on the new laptop the the old laptop cannot boot, maybe you have a tech-savvy friend who can help you take the drive out of the old laptop, and see if you can get it to be read as a second drive in your new laptop, so that you can copy the file across if the old laptop’s drive is not readable, there’s not much that can be done. (A paid data recovery service might be able to help, but that’s a long-shot.)

But none of these answers has anything to do with Notepad++. Unfortunately, Notepad++ itself cannot help you with recovering the file from another machine, and this Notepad++ Community forum is focused on Notepad++ itself, so if you need more help with recovering a file from your old laptop, you’ll have to go to some “file recovery” forum or something similar, because recovering files from one crashed computer to put onto another computer is not our area of expertise, and is off-topic for Notepad++ discussions.

Sorry.

@dr-ramaanand,

Take the time to read my last e-mail to you, where I explained the differences between two simple regexes containing, each, the (*SKIP)(*F) syntax !

BR

guy038

@PeterJones
Thanks for your reply.
Adding the comma to the operators solved the problem.

Thank you.