mohzy83/nppmarkdownpanel

Lightweight Notepad++ plugin to preview Markdown files

MarkdownPanel for Notepad++

Plugin to preview Markdown files in Notepad++

• lightweight plugin to preview markdown within Notepad++
• displaying rendered markdown html with embedded IE11
• can save rendered html to a file
• Dark mode support (requires Notepad++ version 8.4.1 or later)

Current Version

The current version is 0.7.3 it can be found here

Prerequisites

• .NET 4.5.2 or higher

Installation

Installation in Notepad++

The plugin can be installed with the Notepad++ Plugin Admin. The name of the plugin is Markdown Panel.

Manual Installation

Create the folder "NppMarkdownPanel" in your Notepad++ plugin folder (e.g. "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins") and extract the appropriate zip (x86 or x64) to it.

It should look like this:

Usage

After the installation you will find a small purple markdown icon in your toolbar. Just click it to show the markdown preview. Click again to hide the preview. Thats all you need to do ;)

With dark mode enabled in Notepad++:

Settings

To open the settings for this plugin: Plugins -> MarkdownPanel -> Settings

• CSS File

  This allows you to select a CSS file to use if you don't want the default style of the preview

• Dark mode CSS File

  This allows you to select a Dark mode CSS file. When the Notepad++ dark mode is enabled, this Css file is used. When no file is set, the default dark mode Css is used.

• Zoom Level

  This allows you to set the zoom level of the preview

• Automatic HTML Output

  This allows you to select a file to save the rendered HTML to every time the preview is rendered. This is a way to automatically save the rendered content to use elsewhere. Leaving this empty disables the automatic saving.
  Note: This is a global setting, so all previewed documents will save to the same file.

• Supported File Extensions

  This allows you to define a list of file extensions, which are supported and displayed in Markdown Panel. Other file type won't be displayed (there will be a warning). The file extensions have to be separated by a comma ,

• Automatically show panel for supported files

  When this option is checked, Markdown Panel will open the preview window automatically for files with a supported extension. The preview will be closed for files with no supported extension.

• Show Toolbar in Preview Window

  Checking this box will enable the toolbar in the preview window. By default, this is unchecked.

• Show Statusbar in Preview Window (Preview Links)

  Checking this box will show the status bar, which previews urls for links. By default, this is unchecked.

Preview Window Toolbar

• Save As... ()

  Clicking this button allows you to save the rendered preview as an HTML document.

Synchronize viewer with caret position

Enabling this in the plugin's menu (Plugins -> MarkdownPanel) makes the preview panel stay in sync with the caret in the markdown document that is being edited.
This is similar to the Synchronize Vertical Scrolling option of Notepad++ for keeping two open editing panels scrolling together.

Synchronize with first visible line in editor

When this option is enabled, the plugin ensures that the first visible line in the editor is also visible in the preview. (This is an alternative to Synchronize viewer with caret position)

Version History

Version 0.7.3 (released 2023-02-12)

• bug fixes
  • Settings file NppMarkdownPanel.ini isn't used anymore #78
  • Plugin release v0.7.2 searches help files in wrong directory #76

Version 0.7.2 (released 2023-02-11)

• bug fixes
  • Display images with Url-encoded space character (%20) in the filename (contributed by andrzejQ ) #39
• features
  • Plugin-Menu entry renamed to MarkdownPanel
  • Syntax highlighting is now controlled by CSS Styles. See style.css and style-dark.css after comment /* Syntax Highlighting */ #71
  • Feature to preprocess markdown files before they are send to the converter. Furthermore it's possible to postprocess the generated html files (created by markdig). To enable this feature it's necessary to configure pre/post-processor commands (can be any commandline program) in the config file plugins/Config/NppMarkdownPanel.ini. The placeholders %inputfile% and %outputfile% have to be set in the commandline and will be resolved at runtime (with temporary file names). An example C# commandline-project can be found under: misc\PPExtensions\MdpPrePostprocessorTemplate.sln

[Options]
PreProcessorExe=C:\temp\preprocessor.exe
PreProcessorArguments=%inputfile% %outputfile%
PostProcessorExe=C:\temp\preprocessor\postprocessor.exe
PostProcessorArguments=%inputfile% %outputfile%

Version 0.7.1 (released 2022-12-27)

• bug fixes
  • Footnotes (links to footnotes) don't work #28
  • Code fences not rendered for unknown languages (contributed by rdipardo) #55
  • Errorhandling when libraries are missing #57
  • Zoom label does not update on Settings panel init (contributed by vinsworldcom) #58
  • Settings dialog should render only if visible (contributed by vinsworldcom) #66
• features
  • Synchronize with first visible line in editor #14
  • Select/follow active editor pane when using mulitple editors #20
  • YAML Frontmatter is rendered as code block #46
  • Status bar to preview URLs for links (contributed by vinsworldcom) #60
  • Save As toolbar button provides default directory and filename (contributed by vinsworldcom) #61
  • Menu includes Help to access README / menu item order improved (contributed by vinsworldcom) #64

Version 0.7.0 (released 2022-12-09)

• dark mode support (requires Notepad++ version 8.4.1 or later)
• new markdig 0.30.4 integrated
• code/syntax highlighting
  • example C# code with highlighting:
• new zoom level range from 80 % to 800% (for 4K Displays)
• all html files are saved as utf-8 files
• restrict preview to files with a specific extension
• automatically open panel for supported files
• enhanced about dialog

Version 0.6.2 (released 2022-06-02)

Bugfix release

• viewer was crashed by too large documents (more than 10000 bytes)

Version 0.6.1 (released 2022-05-26)

• fix embedded images
• fix dark icon

Version 0.6.0 (released 2022-05-26)

• plugin headers for npp updated
• darkmode icon
• fixed refresh bug for 64-bit version of plugin
• new zoom level range from 40 % to 400%
• save html
• images for help file now included

Version 0.5.0

• change zoomlevel for the preview in settings dialog
• change css file for the markdown style
• the new settings are persistent
• open settings dialog: Plugins-> NppMarkdownPanel -> Edit Settings

Version 0.4.0

• switched from CommonMark.Net to markdig rendering library

Version 0.3.0

• synchronize viewer with caret position

Version 0.2.0

• Initial release

Used libs and resources

Name	Version	Authors	Link
Markdig	0.30.4	xoofx	https://github.com/lunet-io/markdig
NotepadPlusPlusPluginPack.Net	0.95	kbilsted	https://github.com/kbilsted/NotepadPlusPlusPluginPack.Net
ColorCode (Portable)	1.0.3	Bashir Souid and Richard Slater	https://github.com/RichardSlater/ColorCodePortable
Markdig.SyntaxHighlighting	1.1.7	Richard Slater	https://github.com/RichardSlater/Markdig.SyntaxHighlighting
github-markdown-css	3.0.1	sindresorhus	https://github.com/sindresorhus/github-markdown-css
Markdown icon		dcurtis	https://github.com/dcurtis/markdown-mark

The plugin uses portions of nea's MarkdownViewerPlusPlus Plugin code - https://github.com/nea/MarkdownViewerPlusPlus

Contributors

Thanks to the contributors:

vinsworldcom, rdipardo, andrzejQ, RicoP, UrsineRaven and eeucalyptus

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.txt file for details

nppmarkdownpanel's Issues

[Feature Request] Markdown Literary programming that don't break the syntax of any programming language

Markdown Literary programming that don't break the syntax of any programming language

comment area markup method:

Just add a custom line comment character before each line of Markdown.

In the comments of code, you can draw flowcharts, tasklist, display data visualizations, etc.

When previewing or converting a format, you only need to simply preprocess: replace the \r\n\; with \r\n

Note:

• line comment character of Clojure(Lisp) is ;
• line breaks and line comment characters of the current file can be obtained from the editor's API.

when we edit the code, we can preview the effect in real time.
Editing literary code has a live preview panel like most markdown editors.

The editor has a Live Preview panel to do the following work:

1. Get the current text

2. replace the \r\n\; with \r\n

3. live Preview markdown string

4. Easily export directly to PDF or HTML.

Its advantages:

1. It don't break the syntax of any programming language, you can compile directly. comment area markup method can be applied to any programming language and any markup (including Org,rst, asciidoc, etc.), which is the greatest advantage.

2. you only need a single line of regular replacement preprocessing, then you can use any Markdown parse or converter.

3. Support any code editor that supports Markdwon Live preview, allowing the source code of any programming language to become rich text in real time. In the code's comment area, You can use the markdown to draw flowcharts, tables, task lists, and display images on the live preview panel, enhance the readability of your code.

4. If you extend the Markdwon tag, you can implement the eval code, print result, display data visualization and other instruction tags, to achieve live programming, live test.

example:

;### Markdown literary programming
;#### example01:
;```clojure
(defn f [[evens odds total amax amin] x]
  (let [[evens odds] (cond 
                       (even? x) [(inc evens ) odds]
                       (odd? x)  [evens (inc odds)]
                       :else     [evens odds])
        total (+ total x)
        amax  (max amax x)
        amin  (min amin x)]   
     [evens odds total amax amin]))
;;The comment of the code requires at least two line comment characters
(reduce f [0 0 0 ##-Inf ##Inf] [5 6 8 -3 -9 11 156 6 7])
;```
;return`[4 5 187 156 -9]`

Live Preview Effects:

Markdown literary programming

example01:

(defn f [[evens odds total amax amin] x]
  (let [[evens odds] (cond 
                       (even? x) [(inc evens ) odds]
                       (odd? x)  [evens (inc odds)]
                       :else     [evens odds])
        total (+ total x)
        amax  (max amax x)
        amin  (min amin x)]   
     [evens odds total amax amin]))
;The comment of the code requires at least two line comment characters
(reduce f [0 0 0 ##-Inf ##Inf] [5 6 8 -3 -9 11 156 6 7])

return[4 5 187 156 -9]

[Feature Request][UI]: align panel width with NP++ window

It would be nice to align panel width wit NP++, 'cause now it's width is constant and causes UI problems as seen in the above screenshot

How to automatically show the panel when viewing an ".md" file?

I want to automatically show the panle when viewing an ".md" file and hide it in all other scenarios. Is that possible? I've not found an option in the settings.

Best regards,
D.R.

Synchronize and Align Viewer With Caret

I find the option to synchronize the NppMarkdownPanel's viewer with Npp's caret useful, but it would be more useful if the viewer maintained vertical alignment with the caret. Currently the caret's associated text is always positioned at the top of the viewer. Is it possible to actually synchronize the viewer with the caret, including vertical alignment? If not, perhaps you could position the caret's associated text from 35% to 50% below the top of the viewer, so it can be seen in context with other nearby text.

Readme.md images are not packaged with the release

The images referenced from the Readme.md document are not packaged in the NppMarkdownPanel-0.5.0.0-x64.zip file.

The images in the help folder in the Github repository should be installed to a help folder beside the Readme.md file in order to be displayed in the preview window for Readme.md.

Scrollbar Interaction Crashes Notepad++

Steps to reproduce:

1. Break out the preview into a floating window and close it
2. Click the toolbar button to show preview
3. Interact (click the up or down arrow, click and drag bar, or click in empty space on bar) with the scrollbar of the preview window
4. Click the toolbar button to hide preview
5. Notepad++ becomes unresponsive

[Feature Request]: add option to hide panel on every opened file

1. I've opened my notes that's 100 KBytes file;
2. I've enabled panel - everything's OK;
3. Forgot to disable panel and opened 300 MByte file - NOK, NP++ hangs 'cause panel tries to render it in Markdown.

It would be nice if panel would hide on every opened file. Another way is add an ability to "cancel" rendering on "Show panel" hotkey

Footnotes don't work

If you click a footnote or the return, it tries to open the Microsoft store.

[Feature Request] Support mermaidjs

Support mermaidjs
https://github.com/mermaidjs

The panel can't follow the npp's dark model

When i try set the npp to use the dark model in setting menu, the NppMarkdownPanel has no change.

HTML output files show question marks in place of accented characters

Preview Window shows correctly accented characters. Once exported as output file all the italian accented characters are replaced by "?".
Is it possible to support ISO-8859-1 charset?
Thanks.

[Feature Request] Select/follow active editor pane.

Currently when Notepad++ is using dual editor panes, the markdown panel (on the right) always renders the contents of the text pane on the left, with the other text pane dividing down the middle.

I would like the option to render contents of the panel currently in focus, and/or configure which static choice of panel will always be rendered.

Zoom level default and range too small for HD displays

On a Windows 11 laptop with a 3456 x 2160 display, the 100% zoom level is too small to read at all, and even at 400% the text is still too small to read comfortably. Would be good if either the zoom level takes account of the custom system scaling or even if the maximum zoom level is made higher.

Single line breaks aren't rendered as new lines

Only double line breaks renders as new line.

Problem doesn't depend on line break types (i.e. Windows (CR LF), Unix (LF), Mac (CR)).

Plugin version: 0.5.0

[Feature Request] YAML and Code Block Syntax Highlighting

Context :

• Front Matter is added to .md files by Jekyll and many other services

Request :

• Render with Syntax Highlighting for
  • YAML in FrontMatter
  • And Code Blocks

Images:

Left Side Source File
Right Side Rendered View

How it is looks in Obsidian

How it is looks in NPP

Issue

• Without proper syntax highlighting it breaks the format for YAML
• The code blocks are hard to read

Settings dialogue not showing HTML output or toolbar options

NppMarkdownPanel 0.5.0 with Npp 7.9.1, running on Win10, with .NET 4.7.1

The CSS file config and Zoom Level slider are visible in the Settings dialogue, but HTML output config, and toolbar checkbox are missing.

Great plug-in - I've recently come to prefer NppMdPanel over MdViewer++ as the rendering is more reliable, and I've found workarounds for the (current) lack of HTML and PDF export options (I use View Source then save as HTML, and Print Preview then Print to PDF).

thanks for the great work on a really useful tool - JS

P.S. I guess that it's because the rendering is IE11 that context menu > View Source defaults to Notepad.exe rather than Npp.

Display images with a space character in the filename — %20

It should display a local image that has a space character in the filename if the image is included with escaping (%20).

For example, I have an image 123 4.png.

I include it to .md file with: ![](123%203.png "").

It works fine, for example, both in GitHub and in IntelliJ IDEA.
But this plugin does not work with this case.

Can't be uninstalled via plugins admin

• install NppMarkdownPanel
• open plugins admin, go to "Installed" tab
• check "Markdown Panel", press "Remove" button
• "Npp is about to exit" message box pops up, click "yes"
• admin password prompt pops up, enter admin password (I'm on a non-admin account)
• Npp is restarted, NppMarkdownPanel is still there
• rinse & repeat

Expectation: NppMarkdownPanel is uninstallable via Npp's plugins admin.

Table format is not working

No table format is happening.
Tested from documentation something like this:

• Markdown | Less | Pretty
• --- | --- | ---
• Still | renders | nicely
• 1 | 2 | 3

or this

• |a |b |
• |b |c |

but nothing is happening (samples taken from the markdig)

bug report - XSS

you should use a richtextbox rather than a webviewer
more information about XSS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

payload:
![a](javascript:alert("hey"))

screenshot:

Zoom Level Limit

Great plug-in! Request: I use a an Ultrawide monitor (5120x1440). The Zoom Level limit of 200 is not enough. Can this limit be raised. Image 1, attached, is the Zoom level at 200 (the current max). Image 2 is the Zoom level after I've zoomed with my mouse wheel 18 wheel clicks.

~~must be striked out~~

Text between two tildes (text) should appear as strikethrough. But in the Markdown panel is displayed the same ~~text~~

With certain documents, preview panel doesn't open scrolled to the top

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Notepad++ with a markdown file that will cause the preview to need scrolling
2. Click the preview toolbar button
3. The preview isn't at the top of the file (you have to scroll up to see the beginning)

Custom CSS

Hi,
I use this plugin on a daily basis, but one thing that bothers me is the style. I would like to customize some CSS properties, eg. line height, margin, etc. Would it be possible to outsource the CSS file to the plugin directory?
Thanks in advance.

Cann't use Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

when I mouse select some text in doc,I just want copy line what I selected,but when I parse,it's not run.

List of upstream forks

I've been looking around at the forks of the Notepad++ Markdown Panel plugin project, and here's the results that I've found:

See also

Unrelated, but similar project, with PDF export of rendered Markdown:
https://github.com/nea/MarkdownViewerPlusPlus

1st generation

Original version:

• nea/MarkdownViewerPlusPlus#133

2nd generation

914802951 fork:

• https://github.com/914802951/MarkdownViewerPlusPlus
• Last updated: 23 Aug 2018
• +2 commits, tables add border

mohzy83 independent (based off parts of the original)

• You are here
• https://github.com/mohzy83/NppMarkdownPanel
• Last updated: 2 Oct 2020
• Working on adding features already present in UrsineRaven>>andrzejQ fork

3rd generation

UrsineRaven fork:

• https://github.com/UrsineRaven/NppMarkdownPanel
• Last updated: 18 Oct 2019
• Added HTML export, updated below:

4th generation

andrzejQ fork:

• https://github.com/andrzejQ/NppMarkdownPanel/releases/
• (forked from 3rd gen UrsineRaven fork of mohzy83's)
• Last updated: 13 Aug 2020
• 13 commits ahead of UrsineRaven who is 4 commits ahead of mohzy83
• Added HTML export and fixed some char escape bugs. HTML exports convert links to absolute from relative

vinsworldcom fork:

• I use this one
• https://github.com/vinsworldcom/NppMarkdownPanel/releases
• (forked from UrsineRaven)
• Last updated: 9 June 2020
• v0.6.2.1 vs v0.5.0.1 in master repo, 18 commits ahead of UrsineRaven
• Link preview feature, HTML export

Feature Request : Sync without having to close/reopen

I'd like the viewer panel to display my latest .md changes. The only way I can see to do this is to close and reopen the panel.

That's two clicks on a tiny, tiny button which require me to take my hands off the keyboard.

If we can't have the markdown in sync with individual keystrokes (perhaps some milliseconds after the last keystroke), could we instead have some kind of UI for 'sync'?

Perhaps a button?
Perhaps a menu item with a shortcut?
Perhaps just sync the view when you save?

It should happen quickly, easily, and (preferably) without taking the hands off the keyboard because the use case of markdown is people using a keyboard who are too busy to faff around with closing tags, so they're certainly too busy to take their hands off the keyboard.

Feature Request: Jekyll kramdown images support

Probably it is quite simple to add correction for Jekyll kramdown syntax, for example

kramdown in _posts folder:
![x.png]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/img/x.png "x.png"){:width="20px"}
Markdown Panel:
![x.png](../assets/img/x.png "x.png"){width="20px"}

see: https://andrzejq.github.io/jekyll_1/jekyll/tests/2018/11/06/Test-MD.html and src

I've made some changes for test: https://github.com/andrzejQ/NppMarkdownPanel/tree/RegExp

[Feature Request] Send to Printer

Is it possible to add the print feature to send the rendered content to the printer?

Thanks a lot!

NppMarkdownPanel is not support Chinese

when i save my text as html，all Chinese comes to ？？？。

Numbered Headings?

Hi Overthere,
great plugin :-)

Anybody know by chance how to get structured heading-numbering like this:

1. Heading 1
   1.1. Heading 2
   1.1.1. Heading 3
   1.1.2. Heading 3
   1.2. Heading 2
   1.2.1 Heading 3
   1.1.2 Heading 3

2. Heading 1
   2.1. Heading 2
   2.1.1. Heading 3
   2.1.2. Heading 3
   2.2. Heading 2
   2.2.1 Heading 3
   2.1.2 Heading 3

64-Bit Plugin needs to be compiled with updated headers

Please provide a release compatible with the latest (since v8.3) version of Notepad++. See details from the 8.3 release in the following link:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v83-boycott-beijing-2022/

Line separator --- will break all following # header font emphasising

hi @mohzy83

thanks for your new NppMarkdownPanel markdown viewer plugin.
i've just tested it and found two little issues:

• if you use the line separator --- all following # h-lines will not be emphasised in font size.

• a # h-lines is always seen as underlined, instead of just emphasising the size.

sample code to reproduce:

## test 1

---

## test 2

---

### test 3

sample result images:

current view (NppMarkdownPanel):

expected view (MarkdownViewer++):

ps: i really like your new plugin, because it scales ![image name](image.url) images at your markdown panel. 👍
(MarkdownViewer++ for example, keeps images 1:1 in size, cutting off larger images at the right edge, while NppMarkdownPanel is able to display the scaled, whole picture)

many thanks for your work.

greetings and best regards,
metachuh

[bug] line seperator in conjunction with heading

it seems to be a kind of a follow up to #4... but definitively something weird is going on:

"heading2" (no matter if you use ## before or --- underneath) gets underlined... some phraser underline "heading1" and "heading2", but according to CommonMark no heading is underlined by default!

so either "heading1" and "heading2" should be underlined or none, which is IMHO the correct resp. better choice because you can still ad a line separator (---) if you want to.

html export. Links become absolute, not relative

Tested the html export in 0.5.1.3.
Links in he exported html file gets the absolute paths of the links instead of the relative paths.

br

Update Markdig for new features

Update Markdig to latest version to support new features like Diagram and Figure support.

release file type error

NppMarkdownPanel-0.2.0-x64.zip is x86
NppMarkdownPanel-0.2.0-x86.zip is x64

Inline CSS support?

With https://github.com/nea/MarkdownViewerPlusPlus, I can give elements a CSS ID and then modify them inline.

## Using CSS for Custom Formatting! {#MyCustom-ID}

<Style>
	#MyCustom-ID {
            background-color: orange;
			text-decoration: underline;
			color: darkslategray;
         }
</Style>

Since that project is not maintained, I was thinking of moving to this one (especially since this one renders checklists and image hover text properly), but I used that custom CSS stuff on occasion and really like it.

url links on the About dialog aren't clickable

Pretty cool plug-in, just wanted to post a minor issue though:

On the About form, the links aren't clickable and you also can't select and copy the text.
The only way to open them is open a separate notepad and type them in by hand.
You could turn it into a regular dialog form and use LinkLabels for the clickable links.

Missing capability: Linking to filesystem files and internal links within the document

As I stated earlier this morning, I LOVE your plugin. There are 2 types of links that don't get followed correctly. Hopefully, linking to files in the filesystem and to internal links in the document are both something you feel should be addressed:

(1)Internal links such as

Jump to: [top](#top) ... [today](#today) ... [thisweek](#thisweek) ... [deferred](#deferred) ...[bottom](#bottom)
...
<a name="today"></a>
...
<a name="deferred"></a>

and also links to separate md files such as

* See [Comcast Issues](./Comcast.md)

Panel doesn't synchronize with the text

As I type new text, the Panel stays the same, I have to close it and open again so it will show me the new text.

Default to previous zoom level

I find this plugin very useful. When I first open the panel, I find the default zoom level is too high. I can adjust the zoom level by use of Ctrl+MouseWheel. But the next time I start Notepad++ and open the panel, my previous zoom level is not restored. Is there a way to save my previous zoom level as the new default level? Or can you set the default zoom so normal text appears approximately the same size in both panels?

Support for Latex equations?

Hi! I am a user of this nice plugin and I quite like it. I am using the latest version 0.5.0 on windows 10. However, I find it is not supporting the math equations using simple Latex syntax on my computer. I use this feature quite often as my markdown files contain a lot of Greek letters and math equations.

Is this feature supported in this plugin? If not, is it possible for you to add it? Or is there any way that I can make it work on my computer?

Thanks a lot!
William

Code fences not rendered unless language label is in `ColorCode.Languages` dictionary (v0.7.0 regression)

Since 9ebbb73, code fences with a language label other than csharp, cplusplus, aspx, etc., are not rendered at all. Any other language label has to be edited out.

v0.7.0

v0.6.2

There needs to be a default case handler in Markdig.SyntaxHighlighting.LanguageTypeAdapter.Parse, so that code fences are always rendered, even if the label is unrecognized.

Icon not visible with Notepad++ dark theme

Notepad++ v8.0 introduced the possibility for a dark ui-theme. Plugin authors need to call NPPM_ADDTOOLBARICON_FORDARKMODE instead of NPPM_ADDTOOLBARICON for Notepad++ v8.0 or newer.

notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus#9928

Enhancement: Marking Checkbox items Done / Not Done directly in the Edit Pane

I just discovered NppMarkdownPanel and I LOVE it!! Thanks for creating it.

I use To-Do checkbox items a lot. Is there any chance you can add the ability to check / uncheck items in the Preview pane? I know that seems more like something that should be done in the Edit pane, but I've seen other editors do it in the Preview pane and was wondering if that's something you might consider adding.

[bug] cannot display non-ascii-characters

Hi,

non-ascii-characters (èöäüß) are displayed as 1e8H5bX (diamond with questionmark). Have I missed a configuration item or is there a problem with utf-8 support?

Cheers
Birger

Plugin "Failed to load"

Hi there,
i'm using the portable version of Notepad++ 8.4.7 and i cannot load your plugin in version 0.7.0. The old version 0.6.2 worked without problems. I tried a fresh install with npp.8.4.7.portable.x64.zip and NppMarkdownPanel-0.7.0.0-x64.zip and i get the following error:

After closing Notepad++ the following is shown:

I think it has to do with the Windows LTSC-Version, see Debug Info:

Notepad++ v8.4.7   (64-bit)
Build time : Nov  1 2022 - 23:31:11
Path : C:\Software\npp_test\notepad++.exe
Command Line : 
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : ON
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 (64-bit) 
OS Version : 1809
OS Build : 17763.3650
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : 
    mimeTools (2.9)
    NppConverter (4.5)
    NppExport (0.4)

On my private computer with Windows 10 Home and an installed Notepad++ (not portable) the new plugin version does work without problems:

Notepad++ v8.4.7   (64-bit)
Build time : Nov  1 2022 - 23:31:11
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : 
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Home (64-bit) 
OS Version : 22H2
OS Build : 19045.2311
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : 
    BetterMultiSelection (1.5)
    Explorer (1.9.5)
    mimeTools (2.9)
    NppConverter (4.5)
    NppExport (0.4)
    NppMarkdownPanel (0.7)

Went back to version 0.6.2 for now. Maybe you can identify a cause for this issue. Would be great to use the new version with dark mode. Really appreciate your helpful plugin.

Thanks

FEAT No autoscrolling

When scrolling the md-file the preview isn't scrolling in sync.

Not be able to collect the plug-in project NppMarkdownPanel

Not be able to collect the plug-in project NppMarkdownPanel, the Assembly happens with the warnings and the plugin is not working. Maybe not enough of any of the components in VS2017?

Error when starting Notepad++

C:\Tools Servis\npp.7.6.6\x64\plugins\NppMarkdownPanel\NppMarkdownPanel.dll

Failed to load

NppMarkdownPanel.dll is not compatible with the current version of Notepad++.

Do you want to remove this plugin from the plugins directory to prevent this message from the next launch?

Project build Information

1>------ Build started: Project: NppMarkdownPanel, Configuration: Debug x64 ------
1>C:\Users\Uzzer\Downloads\NppMarkdownPanel-master\NppMarkdownPanel\MarkdownPanelController.cs(101,30,101,32): warning CS0168: The variable 'ex' is declared but never used
1>C:\Users\Uzzer\Downloads\NppMarkdownPanel-master\NppMarkdownPanel\MarkdigMarkdownGenerator.cs(36,30,36,31): warning CS0168: The variable 'e' is declared but never used
1>  NppMarkdownPanel -> C:\Users\Uzzer\Downloads\NppMarkdownPanel-master\NppMarkdownPanel\bin\Debug-x64\NppMarkdownPanel.dll
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Debug info notepad ++

Notepad++ v7.6.6   (64-bit)
Build time : May  1 2019 - 23:51:03
Path : C:\Tools Servis\npp.7.6.6\x64\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : ON
Local Conf mode : ON
OS : Windows 7 (64-bit)
Plugins : ComparePlugin.dll DSpellCheck.dll HTMLTag.dll JSMinNPP.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll NppMarkdownPanel.dll VisualStudioLineCopy.dll XMLTools.dll _CustomizeToolbar.dll 

VS2017 configuration file

{
	"version": "1.0",
	"components": [
		"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop",
		"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop",
		"microsoft.net.component.4.targetingpack",
		"microsoft.net.component.4.5.targetingpack",
		"microsoft.net.component.4.5.1.targetingpack",
		"microsoft.net.component.4.5.2.targetingpack",
		"microsoft.net.component.4.6.targetingpack",
		"microsoft.net.component.4.7.sdk",
		"microsoft.net.component.4.7.targetingpack",
		"microsoft.net.component.4.7.1.sdk",
		"microsoft.net.component.4.7.1.targetingpack",
		"microsoft.net.component.4.7.2.sdk",
		"microsoft.net.component.4.7.2.targetingpack",
		"microsoft.visualstudio.component.vc.tools.x86.x64",
		"microsoft.visualstudio.componentgroup.nativedesktop.winxp",
		"microsoft.visualstudio.componentgroup.windows10sdk.16299",
		"microsoft.visualstudio.component.vc.140",
		"microsoft.visualstudio.component.aspnet45",
		"microsoft.net.component.3.5.developertools",
		"microsoft.component.codeanalysis.sdk"
	]
}

What are the missing components in my VS2017?