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@Clyfton There are a lot of Pythonscript installation instructions on that same forum; seems pointless to re-spoon-feed here. Maybe see https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/17256/guide-how-to-install-the-pythonscript-plugin-on-notepad-7-6-3-7-6-4-and-above and/or https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16942/pythonscript-any-ready-pyscript-to-replace-one-huge-set-of-regex-phrases-with-others/

@ljoseph21 and others: There will be a ["fix"](https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/1364b199b4eff3aa2bdc370e6adf6d6186576218) released in Notepad++ 7.9.3 which hopefully improves this.

>The problem is a lot worse in 7.9.3, at least for me. :( Better for some, worse for others...it is ongoing work.

Does this setting have any effect?: 

It's really all controlled by Scintilla; not directly controllable by Notepad++.

Notepad++ already has numerous ways to logically group tabs, e.g. "projects", "sessions", "folder as workspace", "favorites" (via plugin), and probably more... so I doubt such a thing as "tab groups"...

Some interesting ideas for "pinned tabs" and other tab-related things in #9699. Not exactly the same as "groups" I guess, but somewhat related as possible future features.

>This results in customizations being vanquished when someone updates a portable instance manually. Using and upgrading a portable version takes some "knowing what you're doing".

So this behavior has never bothered me as a user of the portable version. I suppose for people that don't want to do any thinking while upgrading, it could be...

>I think your "don't want to do any thinking" sort of comment is massively condescending Yea, probably. >If memory serves NP++ creates missing config files when they don't exist. Yes,...