XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows   
   From: Hank@nospam.invalid   
      
   Maria Sophia wrote on 2/11/2026 5:37 PM:   
   > Maria Sophia wrote:   
   >> I have to force Notepad++ to rebuild the macro action list.   
   >> 1. Open Notepad++ without shortcuts.xml in any editor.   
   >> 2. Go to Macro  ->  Modify Shortcut / Delete Macro   
   >> 3. Find the macro in the list & select it.   
   >> 4. Click "Delete" & then close Notepad++ completely 5. Open   
   >> shortcuts.xml in gVim (or any editor that is NOT Notepad++).   
   >> 6. Paste the original macro back into shortcuts.xml.   
   >>    Make sure the U+2060 removal block is the very first Action   
   >>    in the entire macro, before any other Action.   
   >> 7. Save the file making sure nothing else related is running.   
   >> 8. Start Notepad++ again and re-run the grueling test.   
   >   
   > OMG. Give me a gun. I want to shoot Scintilla's developers! :)   
   > (just kidding)   
   >   
   > But I am frustrated... as they wasted my valuable time.   
   > I finally figured out WHY Notepad++ wasn't running the macros in the   
   > order I wrote them.   
   > I had to FORCE Notepad++ to rebuilt the entire macro from scratch!   
   > Then it worked fine in the same testcase it's been failing on.   
   >   
   > Jesus Christ. That's NOT intuitive. It's only intuitive AFTER you   
   > realize Notepad++ is rewriting   
   > the shortcuts.xml (keeping only your comments of what you add).   
   >   
   > Who knew?   
   > Not me. Now I do!   
   >   
   > Notepad++ does NOT execute macros directly from shortcuts.xml.   
   > Once I forced it to read macros from shortcuts.xml... Apostrophes are   
   > working.   
   > Zero-width characters too.   
   > Combining marks also.   
   > Double quotes, dashes, symbols and diacritics are working.   
   > So are invisible operators.   
   > Soft hyphen & line separators   
   > Even the Multi-word stress test is working.   
   > As is the mixed-chaos jumbled test.   
   >   
   > And yet, I changed nothing in the shortcuts.xml file!   
   > Jesus Christ.   
   > There was nothing wrong with the programming on my side.   
   > It was all because Notepad++ doesn't do what we think it does.   
   >   
   > Sheesh. Drives me nuts when I can't solve a problem.   
   > As I almost never fail - so it was driving me nuts.   
   >   
   > Mainly because I didn't understand what was happening.   
   > My "logic" was fine (as I'm extremely logical).   
   >   
   > It was simply that I was blindsided by Notepad++ changing the order.   
   > Without telling me it changed the order.   
   >   
   > By deleting the macro, the macro was finally rebuilt internally.   
   > Notepad++ finally loaded the new action order   
   > U+2060 finally executed first!   
   >   
   > When Notepad++ starts, it reads shortcuts.xml ONCE.   
   > It loads all macros into an INTERNAL ARRAY in memory.   
   > After that, the XML file is ignored.   
   >   
   > Only when we edit shortcuts.xml while Notepad++ is closed,   
   > does the next startup load the new version... but... but...   
   > But...   
   > If the XML structure is malformed,   
   > or the macro is outside the  block,   
   > or the  block is empty,   
   > or Notepad++ rewrites the file,   
   > or the macro name changes,   
   > or the macro is deleted and not recreated,   
   >   
   > then Notepad++ will:   
   >   
   > silently discard the macro,   
   > rebuild the XML in its own structure,   
   > and load the LAST VALID INTERNAL VERSION it had.   
   >   
   > This looks like"Notepad++ is using an old cache.   
   > But it's not a cache.   
   > It's the internal macro array   
   >   
   > Deleting the macro inside Notepad++ clears the internal array.   
   >   
   > I'm out of energy for today, but I will try to build a version 4.0   
   > (v4p0) that Notepad++ cannot reorder internally.   
      
   Thats a damn shame maria.   
      
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