That’s correct and was my misunderstanding.

I understood his reference to icon editing apps but thought that required recompilation to replace the icon.

While I have used Greenfish frequently for creating shortcut icons, I was unaware it could directly edit and save an icon embedded in the EXE.

I had decided to replace the NPP shortcut icon and knew Greenfish could pull icons from an EXE or DLL so I wanted to see if there was an alternative icon I might use for the shortcut. It was a complete surprise to see the Replace option.

As you might suspect, I’m not a developer so very much appreciate the guidance offered in the forum!

@WolfyRed said in Instance trouble!!!:

Notepad++ Instances don’t make any sense

Yes they do.

but I have to have all files on all of my other Instances saved before I move them to another Instance

Yes, because another instance of the program is totally separate from the first instance. Think of it as a different program, like Word for example. You wouldn’t be able to communicate to Word to accept a file from Notepad++ without the file being saved first; same thing when talking about two instances of Notepad++.

I suppose Notepad++ could be changed to do “more” when it comes to several instances, but I don’t see very much value in it.

multiple instances don’t open back up when closing and reopening Notepad++, it just opens the original first Instance.

A few people seem to think this is what should happen.
As instances are totally independent, it is working as designed.

@Alan-Kilborn
perfect, many thanks
Marco Dell’Oca

@Bernd-Rudolf-Oldengott said in search results without a new window:

sorry for the lack of translation

Kein Problem, übrigens, deepl.com macht hier einen hervorragenden Job. Absolut empfehlenswert. Benutze ich, seit ich es kenne, immer.

No problem, by the way, deepl.com does an excellent job here. Absolutely recommendable. I’ve been using it ever since I’ve known it.

The Settings | Shortcut mapper | Scintilla commands | SCI_HOMEDISPLAY setting worked for me. A bit tedious to resolve the conflict. Soviet era UX.

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@Pim-x same! - I think it would be huge to allow either adding this feature - it’s not like they couldn’t even let the burden of storage fall on a user’s OneDrive or GoogleDrive or DropBox or something - but at least let us point to a data store for our open tabs/files/etc.

Thanks for the detailed response. You are right, it may just be easier to reopen them in the project itself.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Finding matches:

but as a new candidate example for the math-replacement-FAQ

We’ve gussied up the code above and did indeed add it to the FAQ.

@guy038 Thank you for your help. It worked perfectly

@GFS-Invest said in Transfer temp ‘new’ files from old system to new system:

When I start up NotePad++ on my new system, the temp ‘new’ are not being opened.

To give some color as to why: Notepad++ doesn’t just look at the backup folder and load all of those files; instead, it has a session file, which tells it how many unsaved files are currently open, and which temporary backup file each of those unsaved files maps to.

While Notepad++ doesn’t do that, you can use a scripting language of some sort to do it. For example, here I published a solution that works with the PythonScript plugin: it will scan through your backup directory, and add a file to the current session for each file in that directory.

But as Alan says, with only a handful of files (and 8 is easily within those bounds), don’t bother with that script: just manually copy the data from those into new file(s).

And I second his encouragement to use known-location saved files. I always have a file open at work that is Peter's Scratchpad: it’s where I put in my “temporary” stuff, which I may delete from at a moment’s notice, but is always saved, so the “temporary” data can persist for seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, or years. (Yes, I do have stuff in there for years – it’s where I keep my list of unicode checkboxes and arrows that I frequently use and want to be able to easily copy/paste into other documents or into forums like this → ☑.)

@Alan-Kilborn said:

Regarding:

If a view is not open and you ask for the getCurrentDocIndex() on that view, it will return an “interesting” thing

See:

https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/issues/255

@PeterJones thanks for all your help with this.
cheers, Craig.

@TIBETALIA ,

See a related discussion here, which mentions a non-Notepad++ tool for tracking the clipboard history. Normally, I wouldn’t recommend an external tool, but for you, it would help, because even if Notepad++ crashes, that external tool should not, so you should not lose your clipboard contents.

This happened to me on 8.4.7. Disabling the options mentioned by @joel-rodriguez worked for me

@Dark-Light

I misread the problem statement; @Silent_Macjedi 's answer is more accurate for the stated need than mine, please use that.

Thanks :)

@Alan-Kilborn perfect thank you

@PJRamaglia said in Notepad++ Email Verification:

Or is it truly legit?

It is truly legit. As @rdipardo said, it may have been an expired token. Or perhaps there was a temporary server glitch.

If the latter, how would I go about requesting a new confirmation email?

It’s not critical; the email verification is only used if you care about email notifications for replies, etc. Those don’t always work anyway, so you are not missing out on the essential functionality of the forum by not having a “confirmed” email address. (Until a few months back, the email verification didn’t work at all.)

@rdipardo said,

If you use GitHub, it’s much more reliable to simply link your existing account.

Any of the login methods should be equally reliable. I’ve always used the “sign in with google”, and have had no reliability problems over the last 7 years I’ve been here.

And if you didn’t use the “GitHub” login the first time you created your account, don’t try to use it for logging in (yet), because it will create a second account, which is not what you want. If you really want to be able to log in with multiple of the buttons:

stay logged in using the button you used the first time Go to your icon in the upper right and select “Edit Profile”:
8e10df2a-6fa0-4cc2-b32c-63b677eca3e3-image.png in the right column, there will be buttons that say either “click here to associate with…” or “associated with…”
486a34aa-a679-4251-8498-b3b073e90fee-image.png If you want to add another, click on the “Click here to associate…” button. For example, you can see in my screenshot that I can log in using either my google account or my GitHub account. Both will take me to this same account. If I wanted to, I could also add my Facebook and/or Twitter accounts (though given recent changes at Twitter, that might not be so wise right now). BTW: Do not click “dissociate” on all the accounts; that will mean once you lose your active session, you will never be able to log in again.

To sum up: You only need one sign-in service associated with your account. But if you were worried about losing access here, you could associate a second (or third or fourth) service. That way, if you lose your Google credentials (or if Twitter closes your account, or whatever), you could still use your GitHub to access this same account, or similar.

@Alan-Kilborn said in printing issues on color laser printer samsung Xpress c480w:

I hope everyone doesn’t see it as 4K. :-(

No, we see it as it’s supposed to be, but you have added a yellow background to it and changed the blue to black. :)

@PeterJones @Terry-R , Thank you , I will check out these resources .