[Notepad-plus-plus] [notepad-plus - Help] No one wants to provide help with a problem

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By: nobody

Hello,

I posted the below message a few days ago seeking some help in launching NP++
but no one responded. I conclude that if one has a problem in getting NP++
to launch correctly and can't figure out the solution by himself he shouldn't
be using NP++ in the first place. So I deleted the installation from my computer
and went on to seek another replacement for MS's Notepad. judging from the
subject matter of questions posted seeking help with problems, NP++ is probably
a crappy program anyhow and not worth the effort in using it. It looks like
it needs to much hand holding in order to do anything useful with it. It appears
to be a hackers delight.

Previoulsy posted message:

I just installed the latest version on Notepad++. It fails to launch when I
edit a file, say a *.txt file, and several error messages are displayed:
Load langs.xml failed!
Scintilla error: can not load the dynamic library
106901: Scintilla.init failed!

I used the executable version of the download to install Notepad++ and assumed
that all the necessary components to run it were installed; apparently not.
What am I missing here in the install?

Thanks

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I didn't respond because I had no idea about resolving your problem; I've not
seen it before. I'm new to Notepad++, having started with version 3.9 just
this year.

Please keep in mind that this is not paid-for software, and there is no support
except from people like you and me who use the program. We are not paid to
help, so we might want to discourage low-PC-proficiency users from using Notepad++
to avoid being sucked into a tech-support black hole. The very name Notepad++
seems to imply an editor for programmers.

Your problem sounds like solely an install issue. You might check if your download
was corrupted by performing an md5 sum on it and comparing it with the expected:

http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/notepad-plus/npp.4.0.2.release.md
5

You can help the rest of us help you by providing us with some particulars about
your version of Notepad++, your complete install directory, your operating system
(some Notepad++ issues with Vista are pending resolution, I understand), your
user rights and your install rights on the PC (admin, power user, user), as
well as the choices you made when you installed the program.

I'd look at spaces in paths without proper quoting, %variables%, conflicts with
environment settings. --Joel

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By: dv__

Try to download zip-archive file instead of exe-installator. The cause of your
problem is the following: Notepad++ for some reason can't find SciLexer.dll
(text editing library) and langs.xml (highlighting options). These files usually
are placed in the same path (folder) as Notepad++.exe file.

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I ran into the same problem.
This happens when you copy just notepad++.exe to a different location, and execute
it from there.
The mistake I made was misinterpreting the message to copy notepad.exe into
C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386, C:\WINDOWS\System32\dllcache, C:\WINDOWS\System32
and C:\WINDOWS.
Finding no notepad.exe into the unzipped npp.4.1.2.bin.zip, I thought I had
to use a renamed copy of notepad++.exe
Instead, the mentioned notepad.exe has to be extracted from the separate downloadable
Notepad ++ Launcher !!!

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said another way, copy langs.xml and SciLexer.dll to whereever u were supposed
to copy notepad.exe to. for me that was %windir%\system32 and
%windir%\system32\dllcache

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NP++ is probably a crappy program anyhow and not worth the effort in using

it.

Sounds like your problem is solved then.


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