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Hi sokols, I couldn't reproduce that in Windows XP. Regardless of the NumLock state, Shift+(keypad)Arrows NEVER types digits. If NumLock is off, Shift+Arrows selects text. If NumLock is on, Shift+Arrows just acts like Arrows alone. By the way, this is the behavior in NDN, DN OSP, Notepad, Microsoft Word and whatever else. Have you tried the latest (5661) build? Regards, Dan

1. Enble Track Editing History. 2. Shift+F4, enter some random valid filename. Exit the editor (ESC). 3. Alt+PageUp. You should see your file as the first entry in the list. 4. Watch the error dialog: File doesn^M^C Hope this helps, Dan Dascalescu

1. Open a file with an application that locks it, e.g. a .doc with MS Word 2. In NDN, attempt to delete the file. 3. You'll get a "Hardware failure on drive X:" message, when in fact, you should get a "Sharing violation". 4. If you look carefully at the red error message box, you'll notice it's being redrawn, along with the entire screen. I could reproduce this on two different video cards, OSes and screens (laptop vs. CRT). Hope this helps, Dan Dascalescu

Hi AH, Could you be more specific about the URL please? :-) One would be tempted to think in terms of http://ndn.muxe.com/archives/w32.rar , which doesn't work. Dan

These wished-for features are described at the links below: Alt+Home menus for Alt+Enter (in ndn.ext) Command line cursor more visible Returning to NDN after launching external applications Support for network drives (UNC \\paths) Alt+F5 from everywhere

I found I missed this feature quite a lot from DNOSP: When I launch an external viewer, I often want to return to NDN while leaving the viewer active (e.g. to move/rename some files when the viewer can't do this etc.). But, NDN keeps waiting for the viewer to terminate. In DNOSP you can press Ctrl+Break and you'll return to DNOSP, but in NDNW32 Ctrl+Break doesn't work (in addition, it asks you whether you want to exit NDN or not, even if you had disabled this confirmation from Options -> Confirmations). Try this with notepad: 1. Launch notepad from NDN 2. Press Ctrl+Break. I would really like this to work as intended. Hope this helps, Dan Dascalescu

Fully agree, let's move this thread to the Bug Reports forum :-)

Hi Garl, From the bunch of settings you dumped, only "Backspace/Delete Unindents On" is relevant. I also reproduced this bug in build 5661 and it's very related to the Buggy Undo in combination with indenting I reported some time ago. Dan

The "Process list" virtual panel is quite nice and it would be GREAT if you could locate the associated executable in the passive panel by pressing Shift-Enter, just as you do from the TEMP: or FIND: panels. I frequently found myself noticing a suspicious process in the Windows' process list and not being able to get to its executable. I had to search for the filename or use another process explorer tool such as TaskInfo. Since NDN can already show the file size, date and time, I guess it would be feasible to implement the Shift+Enter behavior, and maybe even making F3 work over such a process. Regards, Dan

1. Go to a folder where you have huge files, e.g. 700Mb AVIs 2. Alt+F7, Advanced, Size is less than -> 1000 3. Enter 'abcd' as the text to search for. 4. Start the search and notice NDN searching inside the huge files as well! Note 1: there's a resource bug in the find dialog while it searches for files: a ♥ character before "No files found". Note 2: I entered 'abc' instead of 'abcd' and NDN only scanned very briefly the huge files. I don't really have an explanation for this... Hope this helps, Dan Dascalescu

In NDN 2.14.5661/W32 under Win2KPro and WinXP, the command line cursor is barely visible (Ctrl+O and type something then move around with the arrows). This makes editing in the command line quite difficult. In DNOSP, the cursor blinks about twice per second. Hope this helps, Dan Dascalescu

WHO-HOO! New versions to test! Count me in and keep the new versions coming! Where, where? :-) Dan!

Ctrl+RightArrow goes to the character starting the next word, which can be a letter, digit, or one of the signs @, ~ etc. Since a word consists of such characters as above, I would expect it to end at the first character different from any of these. If you agree with that, good. BUT, the "mark next word" shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+RightArrow, marks until the start of the NEXT word, not until the end of the current one. This is if course a debatable behavior, but major IDEs such as MS Visual Studio or Komodo, and also Microsoft Word, mark until the end of the current word. For example, if you place the cursor under 'a' on the example line and press Ctrl+Shift+RightArrow, the above mentioned applications will mark until 'c': abc($$$) { def Hope this helps, Dan Dascalescu

Uhm, Garl, If '"+" is [a] word [character] too", explain why if you press Ctrl+Backspace at the end of alfa+Beta+gamma you'll have all three wordds deleted, but if you press Ctrl+Shift+LeftArrow in the same place, you only get "gamma" selected. Dan

Another related thing: Ctrl+Backspace should delete up until the first (counting backwards) non-word character, not until the first space. Example: alpha+beta Ctrl+Backspace with the cursor right after 'beta' should delete just 'beta'.

With "Track directories" enabled, I go to a UNC path, such as \\192.168.2.3\movies, I enter one of the subdirs there, but NDN just won't store any of these UNC paths in its Directories History (Alt+Backspace). Also reproduced in the AltTest version. Hope this helps, Dan

I'de be more than glad to test, just throw me a new version :-]

Hi AH! If you can connect two computers via an Ethernet cable, then it's simple: restart the machines (just to make sure) and then type 'ipconfig' to see their IPs. From one of the machines, go to Start->Run and launch '\\the_other_machine's_IP'. Login if necessary. If login succeeds, type in NDN 'cd \\that other_machine's_IP'. If have only one computer, download VMWare from http://www.vmware.com/download/workstation.html , create a virtual machine and install the smallest Windows you can find, e.g. Win98SE. For the network card in VMWare, select "Host-only: A private network shared with the host". You'll then have a virtual network to test with. If you need assistance with either of these, just PM me. Dan

1. Create a new text file containing this string: this is an undo-related bug 2. Make sure Smart BackIndent is Off and Backspace/Delete unindents is On. 3. Place the cursor under 'r' and press Tab. 4. Press Backspace. You should get the original text. 5. Now Undo (Alt+Backspace) twice. You'll get this is an undo- bug which was NEVER an existing text, so the Undo led you to a wrong state. Hope this helps, Dan Dascalescu

Hi AH! > dont know if this a good idea or not, because i dont use this feature at all Menu entries in dn.ext are a great feature, which I've used extensively. The original DN comes with the example of an entry for .ASM, allowing the user to choose between compiling a .COM file, an .EXE file, or just an .OBJ file. Unless you explicitlre removed the feature from DNOSP, it should still be there - just try this example in Win98 after you disabled Windows's handling of Alt+Enter: avi [ >1 Test AVI integrity @perl e:\prg\perl\avitest.pl "#.#" >1 Normalize AVI @perl e:\prg\perl\avinorm6.pl "#.#" >1 Edit with VirtualDub vdub.exe "#.#' ] PS: Garl, Alt+GrayEnter doesn't work in NDN W32 on XP. It still switches to full-screen. Dan

Is there a way to Undo changes you made to a file in the Edit window, AFTER you saved the file? (this is possible in DN OSP) I found a setting in Configuration -> Editor setup, named "Save clears undo", but it is not saved when NDN exits. The setting will always be ON. Besides that, the help mentions a different name for the setting: "Clear Undo when save". I would really like to be able to Undo after saving! Dan

1. Edit a file. The Edit window should autohide the command line. 2. Press Ctrl+O, Type something at the command prompt, then press Esc 3. The Editor will have its status line obscured by the text you typed at the command prompt. 4. For added effect, maximize the Edit window (Alt+Z) Hope this helps, Dan Dascalescu

1. Create a 2-byte file with the following contents: ab 2. View the file, switch to hex mode 3. Edit the '62' code for 'b' into '00' 4. Exit the viewer saving the changes 5. View the file again 6. Press F7 to crash NDN 7. Also, NDN will display some random blocks, differently colored, in hex mode and in dump mode when you view this file. ARGH! :angry: Just after pinning down this bug, I tested it in the AltTest version and it's fixed! But I wasted half an hour on this, so I'll just post this bug, maybe we'll get a new NDN version from AH :-) Best regards, Dan

The Options -> Configuration -> Colors dialog box behaves in quite a strange manner: * its title is 'Copy ~a~s' * the "Unknown w" and 'Enable b' buttons could use a more descriptive name * if "Default" is selected, the color(s) radio buttons have at least one strange entry, #03'%drepla' * the sample text is #03'Error in regula'#13#03in pos %d$70' (is this intended?) * the 4x4 foreground and background color areas have different titles, 'Color' and 'Colors' Hope this helps, Dan Dascalescu

Another resource bug might be the chr($03) displayed in the Confirmation dialog box for overwriting a file: ♥File C:\ndnw32\ndn.exe already exists in destination directory Regards, Dan