@dail said:

The Scintilla developers are not at fault. This is the entire reason they changed from the 3.x to 4.x version.

It is very much in dispute whether a library should ever allow itself a major compatibility breaking change to its API. Changing the library’s major version does not magically justifies it. This is definitely the Linux mindset with its advantages and shortcomings.
A responsible developer should go through all possible hoops to extend the API rather than change it before going this path. Maybe they did, I don’t know.

Specifically for this change, I would challenge, the need to support 64 bit position within a document. Opening a text file over 1GB is such a bad user experience that I doubt that you can find 0.01% within your user base that do it routinely. Your guess is good as mine for the amount of users that will be pissed by the compatibility break.

Still need to audit plugins to see how many are actually broken. Maybe I am overly pessimistic.
But it is possible that 32 bit version of Notepad++ just became much more attractive.

@rainman74

thanks.
note: hexeditor x86 and x64 binary builds are already available at @chcg 's repo:
https://github.com/chcg/NPP_HexEdit/releases

greetings.

@nraygun

I don’t know much about hex editor plugin as it crashes too often for me to be useful, but your problem sounds like it may be one of being in “overwrite” rather than “insert” mode. Press and release the Insert key and see if that changes anything for you.

@p0358

maybe hooking npp and both scintilla message queues and see
if you can find a pattern which could explain that this is/was a find/replace action?

Thank you very much. I missed that plugin!

@Alan-Kilborn

Is the only way to get a single caret back from this situation is by clicking the mouse at a different point?

No, press ESC :-)

@Meta-Chuh
I wanted to tell about the view of the window itself to rename (the saved file), to rename the file it would be better to rename the window (as in the new, not saved tab)

Ask this question to the plugin author. https://github.com/phdesign/NppToolBucket

@Joey-Flaig

if you are already on notepad++ 7.6.6. 32 bit, you can also install the combine plugin using the built in plugins admin, at the menu plugins > plugins admin.

please also note, that the combine plugin is only available for 32 bit versions of notepad++.
if you have installed a 64 bit version of notepad++, we would eventually have to come up with a different alternative.

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@Meta-Chuh
Got it))
I just did not use this option))

@Michael-Vincent

If you’re going to write your own plugin, just handle the clipboard yourself. Make your own history. :)

Use Windows API functions OpenClipboard etal. Easy peasy.

The hardest part (and not all that hard) is the create-a-plugin part.

Maybe a better idea is to approach the author of Multiclipboard plugin and ask for keyboard support to be added. Or ask the Notepad++ development team to add necessary support to the native Clipboard history stuff.