@Fourbits,

I said,

at home, I think I have a virtual windows machine

Sorry, I didn’t get a chance until this weekend.

I spun up the VM, and did a fresh install of v7.8.4-32bit. I can confirm your symptoms.

I ran the five experiments I suggested:

Experiment cmd.exe: hmm, the default “Edit With Notepad++” connects to DLL, not EXE. Still, "c:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" file.nfo crashes Experiment autodetect: turn encoding autodetect off: crashes Experiment 1: remove extension from langs.xml: Fresh RClick is okay Experiment 2: associate with Search Results rather than DosStyle: Fresh RClick is okay Experiment 3: associate with dummy UDL “PlainNFO”: Fresh RClick is okay

So, any of the three experiments which tried to convince Notepad++ that a .nfo file wasn’t MSDOS-Style/ASCII-ART was successful in preventing the crash.

If you do not need the default lexer trying to apply the default color of black on white to all text (ie, doing nothing helpful), I’d suggest implementing one of those three options to get around the buggy interaction between HEX-Editor Plugin and Notepad++'s NFO lexer.

I would be tempted to try a Regular Expression Search Mode replacement operation, looking for (?-si)^([CON])(\(P.+?\)) and replacing with \1\(Fragment=1\).

Let us know how that goes for you.

@octopoesie

When you think you should be in administrator mode, does the title bar of Notepad++ have the word Administrator in it?

Encodings are tough things to deal with…so, no comment. :-)

Yeah… Probably so. :(

Hi, @sylvester-bullitt, @alan-kilborn, @peterjones and All,

Some observations about in-line modifiers :

Let’s consider the text :

1 abc 2 abC 3 aBc 4 aBC 5 Abc 6 AbC 7 ABc 8 ABC

The regex (?-i)a((?i)b)c matches lines 1 and 3 and the group 1 contains the letter b or B

Using a non-capturing group, the full syntax of the regex becomes (?-i)a(?:(?i)b)c and matches the same lines 1 and 3 but, this time, no group is defined

As a convenient shorthand, in case of a non-capturing group, the option may appear between the question mark and the colon, giving the alternate syntax (?-i)a(?i:b)c, which produces the same results as the former regex

Note that, because options are not reset until the end of a subpattern, if that subpattern contains alternatives, an option setting in one branch does affect all the subsequent branches !

So, assuming the text :

1 ab 2 aB 3 Ab 4 AB 5 cd 6 cD 7 Cd 8 CD The regex ((?-i)ab|CD), with group1 and the regex (?-i:ab|CD), with a non-capturing group, match, both, lines 1 and 8, only

REMARK :

Note that the previous rule is always valid if, when choosing between the different alternatives, the regex engine is not aware of a later option. For instance, let’s consider the regex (?-i)(a(?i)b|cd)

In this regex, due to the initial (?-i) modifier, the search should be done in a sensitive way, except for the part (?i)b, which should match letter b or B. However, this regex matches the lines 1 and 2 and lines from 5 to 8, in the above text !

For instance, when the regex engine is located, right before the first letter of line 8, and choose the second alternative, in order to process c, rather than a, it does not know about the caseless option, applied to letter b. Still, it does match the uppercase letter C because the (?i) modifier is carried on into the cd alternative, as well !

Best Regards,

guy038

Did some testing, now everything works perfectly.
Thanks for help

@Alan-Kilborn said in Older Version N++:

Computers used to belong to the people. No longer

You got that right, now on my pc i;ts only me so i just don’t understand why n++ was made like this not allowing you to write in Program Files [probably a good reason i am sure] but at least devs could have made an option for people who want full control over a program or something like that

@Ekopalypse said in Help for highlight hex numbers:

@dreamforceinc

extras2 might contain A B C D E F
and suffix 1 should contain the h

I have “0x” in prefix2 for highlight numbers like that: 0x123, 0xFF. After your hint this nums no more highlited.

upd: thats ok, all works ))
THX!

@Brian-Bennett said in Remove lines from file:

where the text changes slightly for each line

There is a bookmark function that will allow you to identify lines with the text that does NOT change.

Under Search (top menu) look for Mark. Into this area type the first portion of your line “<ModSecurity…” up to the point where the text changes. Now as this inserted text does NOT change your search mode can be “Normal”. Then tick the button named “Bookmark Line” and then click on “Mark All”.

This will identify the lines with that text. At this point you may want to check some randomly. If you are happy with the selection use the Search/Bookmark/Remove Bookmarked Lines option to remove those.

Terry

@dshuman52

The following code performs substitutions on a space inside single or double quotes of \b or \v respectively. That is how you activate the existing code “end if” means end\vif or ‘end case’ means end\bcase.

only apparently in the following buffers.

// OPERATORS2, FOLDERS_IN_CODE2, FOLDERS_IN_COMMENT, KEYWORDS1-8

void ScintillaEditView::setUserLexer(const TCHAR *userLangName) { int setKeywordsCounter = 0; execute(SCI_SETLEXER, SCLEX_USER); UserLangContainer * userLangContainer = userLangName? NppParameters::getInstance().getULCFromName(userLangName):_userDefineDlg._pCurrentUserLang; if (!userLangContainer) return; UINT codepage = CP_ACP; UniMode unicodeMode = _currentBuffer->getUnicodeMode(); int encoding = _currentBuffer->getEncoding(); if (encoding == -1) { if (unicodeMode == uniUTF8 || unicodeMode == uniCookie) codepage = CP_UTF8; } else { codepage = CP_OEMCP; // system OEM code page might not match user selection for character set, // but this is the best match WideCharToMultiByte offers } execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("fold"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>("1")); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.isCaseIgnored"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(userLangContainer->_isCaseIgnored ? "1":"0")); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.allowFoldOfComments"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(userLangContainer->_allowFoldOfComments ? "1":"0")); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.foldCompact"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(userLangContainer->_foldCompact ? "1":"0")); char name[] = "userDefine.prefixKeywords0"; for (int i=0 ; i<SCE_USER_TOTAL_KEYWORD_GROUPS ; ++i) { itoa(i+1, (name+25), 10); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(name), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(userLangContainer->_isPrefix[i] ? "1" : "0")); } for (int i = 0 ; i < SCE_USER_KWLIST_TOTAL ; ++i) { WcharMbcsConvertor& wmc = WcharMbcsConvertor::getInstance(); const char * keyWords_char = wmc.wchar2char(userLangContainer->_keywordLists[i], codepage); if (globalMappper().setLexerMapper.find(i) != globalMappper().setLexerMapper.end()) { execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(globalMappper().setLexerMapper[i].c_str()), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(keyWords_char)); } else // OPERATORS2, FOLDERS_IN_CODE2, FOLDERS_IN_COMMENT, KEYWORDS1-8 { char temp[max_char]; bool inDoubleQuote = false; bool inSingleQuote = false; bool nonWSFound = false; int index = 0; for (size_t j=0, len = strlen(keyWords_char); j<len && index < (max_char-1); ++j) { if (!inSingleQuote && keyWords_char[j] == '"') { inDoubleQuote = !inDoubleQuote; continue; } if (!inDoubleQuote && keyWords_char[j] == '\'') { inSingleQuote = !inSingleQuote; continue; } if (keyWords_char[j] == '\\' && (keyWords_char[j+1] == '"' || keyWords_char[j+1] == '\'' || keyWords_char[j+1] == '\\')) { ++j; temp[index++] = keyWords_char[j]; continue; } if (inDoubleQuote || inSingleQuote) { if (keyWords_char[j] > ' ') // copy non-whitespace unconditionally { temp[index++] = keyWords_char[j]; if (nonWSFound == false) nonWSFound = true; } else if (nonWSFound == true && keyWords_char[j-1] != '"' && keyWords_char[j+1] != '"' && keyWords_char[j+1] > ' ') { temp[index++] = inDoubleQuote ? '\v' : '\b'; } else continue; } else { temp[index++] = keyWords_char[j]; } } temp[index++] = 0; execute(SCI_SETKEYWORDS, setKeywordsCounter++, reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(temp)); } } char intBuffer[32]; sprintf(intBuffer, "%d", userLangContainer->_forcePureLC); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.forcePureLC"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(intBuffer)); sprintf(intBuffer, "%d", userLangContainer->_decimalSeparator); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.decimalSeparator"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(intBuffer)); // at the end (position SCE_USER_KWLIST_TOTAL) send id values sprintf(intBuffer, "%" PRIuPTR, reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(userLangContainer->getName())); // use numeric value of TCHAR pointer execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.udlName"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(intBuffer)); sprintf(intBuffer, "%" PRIuPTR, reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(_currentBufferID)); // use numeric value of BufferID pointer execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.currentBufferID"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(intBuffer)); for (int i = 0 ; i < SCE_USER_STYLE_TOTAL_STYLES ; ++i) { Style & style = userLangContainer->_styleArray.getStyler(i); if (style._styleID == STYLE_NOT_USED) continue; char nestingBuffer[32]; sprintf(nestingBuffer, "userDefine.nesting.%02d", i ); sprintf(intBuffer, "%d", style._nesting); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(nestingBuffer), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(intBuffer)); setStyle(style); } }

@Sam-Benson said in Weird Red Boxes:

I will have to wait and see what happens.

Sure, leave us hanging for something you could test and report back on immediately…

Beautiful! Thanks, just typed in the .sql extension and it worked like a charm. Appreciate your help!

@nick610

That’s pretty “light” for information to be able to give a great answer. Are you actually specifying a type for the files you are looking at? This would be shown on the leftmost section of the status bar–what does it say there?

Hello @veridigital and All,

I think, indeed, that @veridigital asks a rather embarrassing question…

If we suppose that the problem of the NUL characters, following a power cut, comes from a setting, concerning the writing on the HDD, how to explain that it acts, specifically, on the files opened in Notepad++ ?

In theory, corruptions should occur, in a random way, on any file opened by any software !?

Seemingly, the NUL bytes story is not ended ;-)) It’s really irritating !

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

Reading the @peterjones answer more carefully, I understand that Notepad++ is based on MS API. But it should certainly not be the only software ! Also, why should problems privilege Notepad++ files ?

Hello Ekopalyse,
That works fine!
Thank you very much.

@Ict-MylabDev said in Error with newlines from barcode scanner:

found that turning off “Enable auto-completion on each input” solved the problem.
I have no idea what this feature is doing exactly.

Specifically, what is happening: as you continue to scan CODE39 with the barcode scanner, it is typing C O D E 3 9 EOL. With autocompletion turned on, the first time through, Notepad++ auto-complete doesn’t do anything (nothing to autocomplete, because it’s never seen that before). The second time, after n characters from CODE39, the autocompletion mini-window appears (because it recognized the start of CODE39, which it has now previously seen), and it keeps matching as the scanner types the remainder of CODE39; the EOL at the end of the barcode scan, instead of inserting a newline in Notepad++, is used to select the active word from autocomplete, so it just leaves CODE39 but stays on the same line. The third barcode scan starts on that second line, but since it’s extended the text beyond CODE39 to CODE39C..., it isn’t matching, so the third EOL goes to Notepad++, to move the cursor to the third line. Similar sequences occur on future rows, which explains why it grows for a while. Apparently, it hits a maximum length for autocomplete on the 12th line, hence it just stays the same length, because it listens to that lase EOL on that line.

(This can be replicated on your own without a barcode scanner by just turning on the autocomplete, and typing (not just pasting) CODE39 followed by a newline many times.)

Hello, @gstavi,

Reading your post to @plazer1, I decided to give it a try ! So, I saved all events, detected by Procmon, regarding the Notepad++.exe process, in a log file, when Notepad++ starts-up !

Note that my N++ 7.8.3 configuration works fine !! So, it’s just a test and not a debugging task !. However, if you don’t mind, I would like to send you this small log file ( ~840 Kb ), with few comments of my own !

My e-mail address is

Again, I’m not requiring any help from you, but I just curious to know your feelings about it, as your knowledge of the Procmon utility is, of course, much better than mine.

Thanks by advance !

guy038