Sorry to disturb you again, but would it be possible to, either :

OR

Personally, I use the value 3 in Caret Settings in Notepad++ and yours seems really tiny. So, it rather difficult to notice the caret location at first sight, in the Find dialog !

I must admit that I probably get used to this maximum value for the caret and that, now, any smaller size bothers me a bit !

Best Regards,

guy038

I have added the ability to do rgba(0,127,127,0.05)-type colors to the on-demand script at
https://github.com/pryrt/nppStuff/blob/main/pythonScripts/nppCommunity/21xxx/21044-ColorizeHtmlCssColors.py

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If you prefer full underline, then change lines 24 and 26 of the script to use INDICATORSTYLE.PLAIN instead of INDICATORSTYLE.DASH

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why is it that under Windows 10 this is not a problem?

Maybe Microsoft changed that part of the operating system between Win10 and Win11. Or maybe you have unknowingly mapped the network drive both under normal user and admin user on your old Win10 machine.

@GM-Bobby-B Hi I am having the same experience. I suspect this is a new “Feature” but I have been unable to determine where the setting is to turn it off.

Did you ever figure it out? @Lycan-Thrope Appreciate your FAQ items but I think this is a feature that was added. Maybe one of the dev’s can answer that

Forum search didn’t result in any other posts so maybe it’s a plugin or something?

No, if the video that the original poster put in reddit last year is realy what you’re seeing, it’s not a “feature”.

@Lycan-Thrope linked to the FAQ because the original poster didn’t give enough version information to be any help. And despite thanking him for the link to the FAQ, neither did you. Share your ?-menu’s Debug Info to let us know what version you are using, and many other things that are often relevant to debugging uncommon problems.

That user has never come back to this forum since the original post, so never even saw @Lycan-Thrope’s answer. And the people in Reddit just found that changing the caret blink rate in the preferences “fixed” it for them… though that should have nothing to do with what Notepad++ displays.

My guess is that it was really a plugin causing the problem, or that the underlying cause is actually something slowing down the entire computer, causing it to refresh Notepad++'s screen at odd times.

If you think it might be a plugin, we’ve got a different FAQ which has a section on diagnosing “Possible Culprit: Plugin”: you should follow the steps included there.

See HERE.

I searched a plugin capable of doing that

NppConsole was rescued from oblivion a few years by @Michael-Vincent, but never put into the Plugins Admin. That literally runs cmd.exe (or other executable, like powershell) in a panel in Notepad++ (the command that it runs is defined through the About box, rather than a separate config dialog).

Or the NppExec plugin (available thru Plugins Admin), which can be used to launch anything (and has a whole scripting language to go with it), and it has a console window that such commands can show their output in.

Either one of those plugins should work for you.

I’ve been a long-time Notepad++ user, and recently found myself frequently working both indoors and outdoors on a laptop. Constantly switching between light and dark mode through Preferences became a bit tedious, so I initially wrote some Python scripts to automate it — but eventually decided to build a proper solution.

I’ve created a C++ plugin that adds three toolbar buttons:

☀️ Light Mode — instantly switch to light mode
🌙 Dark Mode — instantly switch to dark mode
🔄 Auto Mode — automatically switches based on sunrise/sunset times calculated from your selected location
The auto mode uses a built-in list of 50+ cities worldwide (or custom coordinates) to determine when to flip between themes — no external dependencies or internet connection required.

More details, screenshots, and the installer can be found on the GitHub page: 👉 https://github.com/pullitall/Notepadpp-light-dark-switch-and-automatic-switch-based-on-location

If you run into any bugs, feel free to post here or open an issue on GitHub. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

as usual with a lots of other MSIs we take to the softwareinstallation in the GPO editor, then select “new - package”, select the current npp.8.9.3.Installer.x64.msi file from our GPO deployment path, open it, then select to deploy the package in a customized version (German: Erweitert), but tried all three options in the meantime, all end with the GPO editor reporting that adding the package to the GPO went wrong because the deploymentinformation can not be read (from the package) and we should check if we got the correct softwarepackage…

It’s likely that Windows has placed a “Zone.Identifier” alternate data stream on it, marking it as untrusted.
If not, please check the network share where npp.8.9.3.Installer.x64.msi is stored has Read permissions for both “Domain Computers” and “Authenticated Users” (or at least your specific admin account).

is there any function or existing plugin to view/extract only those line which match the tezt search?

If you like to experiment, I am working on a plugin for search which includes a Show command that hides all lines and then shows just the ones with matches.

It’s still a work in progress, but everyone is welcome to try it and offer bug reports, suggestions and complaints. See this thread for ongoing discussion; go here to find the latest version.

I followed the steps above and was certain it was a new plugin I installed earlier in the day, but the removal of plugin, creating a backup Notepad++ folder in %AppData% and completely uninstalling NP++ before reinstalling it hasn’t fixed anything.

For now, the only way to start it is to use the -noPlugin command line argument on my usual shortcut to the program.

If using -noPlugin makes it work, that means it’s one of your plugins, or an interaction between multiple plugins, causing the issue. Our freeze/crash/plugin FAQ explains how to try to isolate which plugin is the culprit.

NppExec v0.8.11:

• Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!
• added: $(IS_CONSOLE), $(IS_CONSOLE0)
• added: set <var> ~ strstrip <k> <string>
• added: npe_console n+/n- (condense empty lines)
• changed: sendmsg no more strips the trailing EOL from the output strings
  (thus, in case of e.g. SCI_GETLINE, use: strstrip 0x42 “$(MSG_LPARAM)”)
• NppExec Manual updated
• the CHM version of NppExec Manual is replaced with the HTML version
• vc2026 project files with arm64 added, thanks to jjsilvan

Get it here:
https://github.com/d0vgan/nppexec/releases/tag/NppExec_v0811

NppExec Manual online:
https://d0vgan.github.io/nppexec/

Notes:

• As from now, the offline version of NppExec Manual is distributed in a form of “index.html”, “index-local.html” and the “NppExec_Manual” subfolder under the “doc\NppExec” folder. There is no more “NppExec_Manual.chm”.
• However, you may still download the “NppExec_Manual.chm” from https://github.com/d0vgan/nppexec/tree/develop/docs and tune the “NppExec.ini” to use “NppExec_Manual.chm”. Refer to “NppExec_TechInfo.txt” for details: see the “HelpFile” option.

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Are you in an IT-controlled environment that requires connecting to a proxy to connect to the internet? If so, then you (or someone from IT) will need to launch Notepad++ As Admin, and set ? > Set Updater Proxy to the right value. (127.0.0.1 is your localhost – ie your own computer – and it surprises me that it would be pointing to a proxy on your own machine)

since I use the “real” portable version it all works fine

And this is the key point of this entire thread!