Another feedback concerning this Save As issue in v8.1.2: a colleague of mine noticed that it doesn’t happen if you create a new file then use just “Save” instead of “Save as” and change the file name. It can be used as workaround before updating to v8.1.2. But you probably found it out, as you fixed the issue. Thanks again !

Please let us know if the issue you encounter has been fixed in v8.1.3

The issue can be reproduced:

The issue, cannot be reproduced by that sequence by everybody – many users (like me) have never seen that problem, despite saving files on an hourly basis for weeks or months with versions like 8.1.2 that show the issue.

That said, with older Windows, the developers were able to reproduce the problem more reliably, and fix it. As I have said many times, that fix is in the next release of Notepad++. Telling us “I also have the problem in v8.1.2” won’t help. What would help is if you read my post from 4 days ago – literally, the post just before yours – and followed those instructions: the most recent v8.1.3 release candidate 3 is found here.

• create a new file
• work on it
• Save as… then:
  if you don’t change the folder from the current one, you are able to modify the file name
  but as soon as you change the folder, the file name cannot be edited anymore.

Save As

Hi. I have the identical issue with Win 10 Pro x64.
It is annoying and recurring. Most of new files have this issue, namely no way to change the file name before saving it through “Save As”.

Fingers crossed the fix @mere-human linked will address the issue in both Vista and Win 10

The @mere-human fix is in v8.1.3-ReleaseCandidate, so you can try it for yourself… and if it doesn’t fix it for you, reply in the RC thread with your ?-menu Debug Info

Install the compare plug-in, I can’t see the compare icon from the v7.9.5 upgrade to the 8.1.2 version, switch to the dark mode and still can’t see the compare icon display

Indeed. As has been explained multiple times in the forum recently, the way that plugins tell Notepad++ about their icons changed in Notepad++ v8 when Notepad++ is in one of the new “Fluent UI icon” sets (see Preferences > General > Toolbar for the icon settings). Until a plugin upgrades its code , the Fluent UI icons will not show up; if you switch to Standard icons: small, it will work; or you can see this post to use the Customize Toolbar plugin to add icons for the plugins with missing icons – whether it’s on fluent or standard icons, though you may have to have the most-recent Customize Toolbar version.

Some recent posts with more details regarding the Compare plugin and this issue:

• in v8 announcement thread
• in separate thread

Long-time user. Thanks for the Dark Mode options. I noticed the Plug-in Admin dialog box is not using Dark Mode. Not a complaint ;) Just an FYI.

Don responded to my comment about that in the 8.1.2 Release Candidate thread

Example: Each line looks similar to this (random letters): ABC;DEF;GHI. Now I want to replace “;” with “” (empty String)
These are my Settings (for 8.1.2 and 7.9.5):

Could you report to Github issue tracker:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues

with complete information please?

Example: Each line looks similar to this (random letters): ABC;DEF;GHI. Now I want to replace “;” with “” (empty String)

These are my Settings (for 8.1.2 and 7.9.5):

Can you provide some information on what type of search/replace you do?
Regular expressions or normal text search?
This would give an indication of what to look for and how to replicate it to see
if this is really a problem with Npp or perhaps with a plugin you are using
that is having problems with the current version of Npp.

I don’t know if this is a problem with v8.1.2 or with >v8. When using Search & Replace for large files (5 million lines, 11 characters each line - replace 2 characters on each line) I’m waiting 15-20 minutes without progress and have to stop notepad++ hard.

I now downgraded to 7.9.5 again (from which I updated) and the same procedure takes about 3-4 minutes.

I found a regression introduced in V8.0.
Mark all feature is no longer configurable through “find dialog settings”. It was wery convenient to configure it through “find dialod settings”, in a same way like smart highlighting.
Please consider to set it back.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10195

cheers
Christophe

@donho what about the regression I’ve found. Is there any chance to have a follow up on this ? Here is the feature request https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10195
Thanks

Thank you @mere-human for the prompt fix!

Just upgraded. It appears that the “Search/Mark All” feature now doesn’t work if you select a whole line or more. It works with the “Search/Mark One” feature, but this is less useful.

Did you go to Settings > Preferences > Highlighting and turn off “Match whole word only” in the new “Mark All” section? Because with that on, it will only mark all if you’ve selected one word; with it off, it will mark all for partial words or multiple words

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#highlighting