This is a forum for people to contribute to NIT’s Project Download Rules by posting rule changes, additions and suggestions.
Each time NIT is started, it downloads the rules from the web, which allows rule updates to be published without having to release NIT.
Editing Rules
Changes you make to the Rules File will be lost the next time you start NIT (because it will download the Rules from the web). Normally, you would make changes and test them during one NIT session after which, you would copy and paste your changes to a forum post.
if you want to make rule changes and test over a number of NIT sessions, set Use local Download Rules file on the Advanced page in Settings to Yes. Don’t forget to set it back to No when you have finished so that you continue to receive other changes that may have been published.
Viewing the Rules
Although you can use any text editor, Notepad++ with NIT’s DownloadRules Language is recommended.
After you set Enable Debug Options Menu on the Advanced page in Settings to Yes, click Options, Debug Menu Options, Open Download Rules to view the rules.
You can make navigating the rules easier by clicking Fold All from Notepad++’s View menu (Alt+0).
I have encountered a small oddity with these rules. I remove the old rules and then install the new. Thing is I don’t have a single entry for this afterwards but two. I have a suspician that just maybe this is occurring because I am not closing npp between deleting the old rules and installing the new. Fortunately choosing one of the two at random and deleting it seems to work so that I end up with just a single entry.
I have found that if you remove the old rules first and then import the new one without closing NPP it works fine.
I have seen the problem you describe when closing NPP after removing the rules and then restarting (looks like the rules are not actually removed, so importing then creates a duplicate).
