Thank you for your report, it was a regression introduced in a recent refactoring we did in ce1d67a

Now that this issue was fixed, can you update the snap package on the edge channel?

Hi
I have installed Notepadqq on Mint 19.1 with:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install notepadqq
and I still get 1.4.2 version with this bug.
notepadqq --version
qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
Notepadqq 1.4.2

Is there a way to update to latest fixed release?

When I try to upgrade I get:
sudo apt-get install notepadqq
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
notepadqq is already the newest version (1.4.4-1~bionic1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded.
but the bug is still there.

Thx

I'm just referencing here what I found:
#755 (comment)

I think this is the same issue as #684 which has been fixed after the 1.4.8 release.
We're currently somewhat stuck fixing a few fundamental issues with some of our tech, that's why we haven't released a new version in a while. If you want to get your hands dirty you can compile the current master branch to get the fix; otherwise you'll probably have to wait until we sorted everything out. Sorry 'bout that.

You could either built it from source (guide) or use the Snap variant. I think Mint should have a software center app that has Snap software? I'm not very well versed with Mint.

This issue came up as the first result in Google search so I'm dropping this here in case others came across it as well

If anyone else is stuck with...

1. Notepadqq 1.4.2 because that's the last version of Notepadqq available on APT and they dropped it to move to snap, OR
2. Notepadqq 1.4.8 because there seemed to not be any newer version available for Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS i686 on Snap as of 17 September 2020, ...

... and you're annoyed with this bug which affected both 1.4.2 and 1.4.8, you can try this fix:

1. open the config file Notepadqq.ini
   • if you install with Snap, it should be at ~/snap/notepadqq/844/.config/Notepadqq/
   • if you install with APT, it should be at ~/.config/Notepadqq/
2. go to the [Languages] part
3. add these two in new lines (change the second line to 2 if you prefer 2 spaces instead of 4)

   default\IndentWithSpaces=true
   default\TabSize=4

4. save the file

From now on Notepadqq should be using spaces instead of tabs as the default when launched, plus modifying it this way wouldn't touch existing setting on the other languages if you had any of them customized as it only change the default value.

@mnh48 so thankful that I found your post. Absolute lifesaver

@mnh48 Thank you for the hint.

It's ~/.var/app/com.notepadqq.Notepadqq/config/Notepadqq/Notepadqq.ini if you use flatpak.