Some Questions about the 'Find' dialog

Claudia Frank

actually you are right - on my system both work shift and alt.
Can you check shortcut mapper or maybe shortcut.xml to see whether this shortcut
has been reconfigured?
Something which has

<...  Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="no" Key="99" />

Do you have a local or appdata configuration?

Cheers
Claudia

fade2gray

Ok, I have “C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml” and “C:\Users\fade2gray\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml”; they are identical and neither contain anything pertaining to Key=“99”.

In the above, does the latter file location indicate that i have an appdata configuration? (I didn’t change any configuration settings during installation except to add shortcut to desktop).

Looking in the Shortcut Mapper I can only find the default setting of Alt+C assigned to Column Editor, but pressing Alt+C does not open the Column Editor dialog, I find it can only be invoked by selecting it from the Edit menu (again, this makes no difference regarding extra plugins).

Claudia Frank

@fade2gray

let’s put it this way, a local configuration is detected when a file doLocalConf.xml has been created in npp install directory.
The column editor appears only if an editor has the focus. Can you post the debug-info? Is available under the ? menu.

Cheers
Claudia

fade2gray

@Claudia-Frank said in Some Questions about the 'Find' dialog:

Can you post the debug-info? Is available under the ? menu.

Here you go,

Notepad++ v6.8.8
Build time : Dec 10 2015 - 01:11:37
Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS : Windows 7
Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll PluginManager.dll

Claudia Frank

hmmm, perplexed.
Can you try a minimalistic version?
Just unzip and run it.

Cheers
Claudia

fade2gray

Hmm - this gets more interesting,

Done as you requested and find exactly the same behaviour with the Find dialog when running the executable from the archive (note: Debug info = Local Conf mode : ON).

Now then, I also have 6.8.8 installed on my laptop (upgraded from an earlier version of which I can’t remember) that performs as expected, i.e. Alt+c works to toggle ‘Match case’.

On the main PC, I had had problems with the plugin manager constantly prompting me to update two plugins that I had previously installed but removed, and for some reason they no longer appeared in the ‘Available’ or ‘Installed’ list and wouldn’t update. That was at version 6.6.4 which I uninstalled prior to installing 6.8.8.

All I can think of doing now is to try a removal and reinstall of 6.8.8. Do you have any tips on how I should perform a fully clean install, e.g. are there any registry entries and directories I should pay particular attention to?

Claudia Frank

really strange.
When uninstalling delete C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++ directory afterwards,
as well as the %APPDATA% notepad++ directory and
HKLM->Software->Notepad++ should have been deleted.

Even I hope that this will fix your problem I’m not confident that it will.

Cheers
Claudia

fade2gray

@Claudia-Frank said:

really strange.
When uninstalling delete C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++ directory afterwards,
as well as the %APPDATA% notepad++ directory and
HKLM->Software->Notepad++ should have been deleted.

Even I hope that this will fix your problem I’m not confident that it will.

Cheers
Claudia

Well, your fears were unfounded, I followed what you outlined, reinstalled my favourite plugins and UDLs and all is well. :-)

Thanks for you assistance.

N.B. I have a niggling feeling that when I initially uninstalled 6.6.4 I failed to remove the ‘…\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++’ folder before installing 6.8.8, so there may have been something historically amiss in there.

fade2gray

I also notice that Alt+C now correctly opens the ‘Column Editor’ without having to call it from the Edit menu.

Claudia Frank

@fade2gray

good to see that problem is gone but bad to know that this is another
“what was causing this issue”
I assume corrupt xml but which one…

Cheers
Claudia

Rajkumar Tamang

I have this problem, could you please help me explain this link: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13378/run-commands-issue/8 during run compilation, error is shown can’t fix it can you please help me. I have stopped working as i am not able to run in chrome . specification are windows 10 64bit