Search++ version 0.5.2

Search++ is a work in progress. It is not feature-complete and has not undergone thorough testing yet. Use with caution. That said, your feedback is welcome and very much appreciated. There is a discussion topic in the Notepad++ community, or you can create a GitHub issue.

• Fix display of Settings: Mark style drop-down in dark mode.
• Add a dialog to resist accidentally clicking the Tools menu options to remove marks from documents in view or from all open documents.
• Rearrange Settings dialog and add four new settings:
  • Fill after Search... menu command or shortcut even if search dialog is already visible.
  • Allow default Select command to Select in Selection.
  • When eligible selection and marks are present, default search is within selection.
  • Allow default Mark command to Mark in Marked Text.
• Make commands that explicitly specify in Selection or in Marked Text show a failure message (rather than fall back to in Whole Document) if there is no selection or marked text.
• Remove Before and After commands without an explicit scope from command button menus.
• Apply the action Convert selections to marked text when beginning a default stepwise search only when the search finds a match.
• Change names of stepwise replace commands to Replace (then find) and Replace (then wait).
• Fix adding to selection not working when the selection is a rectangular selection. Add note to help regarding unexpected results when adding to existing selections.
• Update and clarify documentation, particularly the Search commands and Settings sections.

To install Search++ download Search++-0.5.2-x86.zip or Search++-0.5.2-x64.zip, depending on whether you're using 32-bit or 64-bit Notepad++. Unzip the file to a folder named Search++ (the name must be exactly that, or Notepad++ will not load the plugin) and copy that folder into the plugins directory where Notepad++ is installed (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins for 32-bit versions or C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins for 64-bit versions).

Search++ version 0.5.1

Search++ is a work in progress. It is not feature-complete and has not undergone thorough testing yet. Use with caution. That said, your feedback is welcome and very much appreciated. There is a discussion topic in the Notepad++ community, or you can create a GitHub issue.

• Fix Select Before and After not working.
• Enhance clearing behavior (whether implicit or checked in Settings dialog): don't clear selections, unmark text or hide lines if no matches are found.
• Fix Select Marked Text (formerly Mark -> Selections) on Tools menu including an extra, empty selection.
• Add items to the Tools menu to copy marked text and to remove marks from open documents and documents in this view. Rename some items, hopefully making them more clear. Disable some items when there is nothing to which to apply them.

There is a help file.

To install Search++ download Search++-0.5.1-x86.zip or Search++-0.5.1-x64.zip, depending on whether you're using 32-bit or 64-bit Notepad++. Unzip the file to a folder named Search++ (the name must be exactly that, or Notepad++ will not load the plugin) and copy that folder into the plugins directory where Notepad++ is installed (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins for 32-bit versions or C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins for 64-bit versions).

Search++ version 0.5

Search++ is a work in progress. It is not feature-complete and has not undergone thorough testing yet. Use with caution. That said, your feedback is welcome and very much appreciated. There is a discussion topic in the Notepad++ community, or you can create a GitHub issue.

• Add "in Open Documents" and "in Documents in this View" variants of Count, Find All, Mark and Replace All.
• Add ellipsis and balloon tip on hover for status messages that don't fit; some improvements in the text of status messages.
• Don't restrict default ("smart") Mark commands to marked text.
• Miscellaneous changes to wording and layout on command button menus to try to make it make more sense.
• Documentation updates.

There is a help file.

To install Search++ download Search++-0.5-x86.zip or Search++-0.5-x64.zip, depending on whether you're using 32-bit or 64-bit Notepad++. Unzip the file to a folder named Search++ (the name must be exactly that, or Notepad++ will not load the plugin) and copy that folder into the plugins directory where Notepad++ is installed (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins for 32-bit versions or C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins for 64-bit versions).

Search++ version 0.4

Search++ is a work in progress. It is not feature-complete and has not undergone thorough testing yet. Use with caution. That said, your feedback is welcome and very much appreciated. There is a discussion topic in the Notepad++ community, or you can create a GitHub issue.

• Add wide layout for better top/bottom docking. Improve layout handling and make sure non-docking dialogs aren't sized too small.
• Add settings (checked by default) to focus the document after Select commands and after Show commands. (See help.)
• Make behavior of general navigation commands (Ctrl/Ctrl+Shift + H/N/O) more consistent. (See help.)
• Update documentation.

There is a help file.

To install Search++ download Search++-0.4-x86.zip or Search++-0.4-x64.zip, depending on whether you're using 32-bit or 64-bit Notepad++. Unzip the file to a folder named Search++ (the name must be exactly that, or Notepad++ will not load the plugin) and copy that folder into the plugins directory where Notepad++ is installed (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins for 32-bit versions or C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins for 64-bit versions).

Search++ version 0.3

Search++ is a work in progress. It is not feature-complete and has not undergone thorough testing yet. Use with caution. That said, your feedback is welcome and very much appreciated. There is a discussion topic in the Notepad++ community, or you can create a GitHub issue.

• Fix error that caused backward searches to fail in some cases.
• Fix replaced marked text not being marked in some cases.
• Make Shift+click on Find and Replace buttons reverse direction for Plain text searches.
• Add functions to clear the search results list.
• Clarify the search results list context menu a bit.
• Update help file for changes. Clarify the effect of stepwise search in selection.

There is a help file.

To install Search++ download Search++-0.3-x86.zip or Search++-0.3-x64.zip, depending on whether you're using 32-bit or 64-bit Notepad++. Unzip the file to a folder named Search++ (the name must be exactly that, or Notepad++ will not load the plugin) and copy that folder into the plugins directory where Notepad++ is installed (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins for 32-bit versions or C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins for 64-bit versions).

Search++ version 0.2

Search++ is a work in progress. It is not feature-complete and has not undergone thorough testing yet. Use with caution. That said, your feedback is welcome and very much appreciated. There is a discussion topic in the Notepad++ community, or you can create a GitHub issue.

• Fix failure to reset match counter after a Replace All.
• Add missing logic to make Replace Before and Replace After work properly after stepwise Find or Replace.
• Remember the contents of the Find and Replace boxes between Notepad++ sessions. Synchronize Find and Replace box contents and all settings accurately when switching between the docking dialog and the non-docking dialog.
• Add to the help file to clarify the special cases for Replace Before/After and what does and doesn’t reset the match counter. Correct broken links to this project on GitHub in the help file.
• Fix some mistakes in the GitHub project setup: some ICU4C files that were needed were not included, and some that were not needed were included.

There is a help file.

To install Search++ download Search++-0.2-x86.zip or Search++-0.2-x64.zip, depending on whether you're using 32-bit or 64-bit Notepad++. Unzip the file to a folder named Search++ (the name must be exactly that, or Notepad++ will not load the plugin) and copy that folder into the plugins directory where Notepad++ is installed (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins for 32-bit versions or C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins for 64-bit versions).

Search++ version 0.1

This is the initial release of Search++, an enhanced search plugin for Notepad++.

The current version is a work in progress. It is not feature-complete and has not undergone thorough testing yet. Use with caution. That said, your feedback is welcome and very much appreciated. I started a discussion topic in the Notepad++ community.

There is a help file.

To install Search++ download Search++-01-x86.zip or Search++-01-x64.zip, depending on whether you're using 32-bit or 64-bit Notepad++. Unzip the file to a folder named Search++ (the name must be exactly that, or Notepad++ will not load the plugin) and copy that folder into the plugins directory where Notepad++ is installed (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins for 32-bit versions or C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins for 64-bit versions).