NP++3.1 and "special" file names
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Okay, this is a rather odd thing...
Notepad++ v3.1 doesn't open files with "special" character combinations in their names on my system (german Win XP Home SP2) when double clicking them in the explorer or trying to open them via the command line (NP++ is accociated to text files and, yes, I do use all the double quotes necessary), but gets me the message <ERR - Could not open file "".>. The "special" combinations I found are:
"STRING1_?l_STRING2.txt"
"STRING1_?n_STRING2.txt"
where STRING1 is a non-empty string, _ is blank, ? any character, STRING2 any string (empty as well).
Examples:
"aa - kl.txt"
"red - blue.txt"
"This is - another one.txt"
"These - Antithese - Synthese.txt"
(The last example shows how I came across this odd bevaviour).
All of the elements mentioned above must be present, and the k- and l-letters must be lower case, i.e. "AA - KL.txt" or "red-blue.txt" works fine.
It's also no problem to open the files via the menu.
Maybe there are other combinations, I didn't try extensively.
Anyone else who encountered this curiousity?
ok, I just figured out what it is going on.
This bug will be fixed in the next release.
Don
I encountered exactly the same problem on my English Windows 2000 system.
The simplest filenames for which this error occurs are:
"a -l.txt"
"a -n.txt"
As the previous poster pointed out, it only works for the letters l and n and then only if they are in lower case.