Ideas & Bug Reports for Notepad++

Hello all, I am a former Notepad2 user and have recently moved to Notepad++ which I use daily for PHP programming at home and at work.

I'd like to say that I think this app is the best freeware editor out there.  It is truly a joy to work with.

I have noticed several bugs / features that I would love to bring forward in the hope that they will be looked at if the developer has some time...

I have provided demo videos below which are RARed mpeg files and should play on all Windows versions.

1) Bugs with tabbed windows.  Since v5.0 (4.92 is fine), there seem to be some issues with tabs.  This happens with single line tabs.  To replicate, try the following...

a) Open many many documents so that the tab bar is filled up and starts to scroll to the right
b) Move to the last document in the tabbed window list
c) Close off tab by tab using Ctrl+W.  After visible documents have been closed, the tab bar doesn't scroll to the left, instead it stays visible with no content.  As you move across using Ctrl+Tab, you see only the name of the active tab.

Demo Video: http://users.on.net/~djbros/notepadpp/tabs.rar

2) Style Configurator strange behavior.

a) Under Style, select something to change and change the color.
b) Click on another item under Style and try to change the color.  On my PC, it doesn't select the other item, there is no way to change selection in under Style after I have changed one color.

The only way around this seems to be to change Language, then come back to the Language I was working on to edit the color.

Demo Video: http://users.on.net/~djbros/notepadpp/styleconf.rar

3) File association icons

On my work computer (works ok at home), when I associate anything to Notepad++, the icon turns into the generic windows icon instead of the Notepad++ icon.  If I change the association to Notepad2, it is ok.  Any idea why this might be happening?

4) Auto-indent behaves strangely (differently to Notepad2) and I find it a lot harder to work with.  This is by far my biggest problem with Notepad++ at the current time as I am constantly correcting the extra tabs added by Notepad++.

For an example, try this code...

if($x)
{
    if($x)
    {
    }
}

Say I want to move the last line down, I go to the start of the last line and hit enter.  This is the result...

if($x)
{
    if($x)
    {
    }

    }
   
I have tested this with PSPad and Notepad2 and neither have this behavior.

Demo Video: http://users.on.net/~djbros/notepadpp/indent.rar

5) It would be nice for Notepad++ to auto-indent after opening braces.

e.g.

if($x == 4)
{
   _cursor should automatically be indented when I hit enter after entering my {
  
} <- cursor should automatically remove the indent of the current line when I type }

Demo Video: http://users.on.net/~djbros/notepadpp/indent-braces.rar

6) General GUI suggestions

I think that Notepad++ would feel a lot more natural in a Windows environment with several small changes to the GUI.

a) Remove border around the tab bar and make the tabs use a Windows XP / Vista themed look
b) Redesign shortcut mapper dialog to be smaller and more like the Style Configurator dialog

Demo Picture: http://users.on.net/~djbros/notepadpp/gui.png

Thanks so much for your time :)
Fots