I would like to renounce from TABs and multi-file editing. I would like to have one editor instance per file.
This is because TABs are uncomfortable when simultaneously editing many files and often have to switch between several of them (2 or more).
Windows Taskbar copes better with this task. For example, Alt-TAB switches me between 2 last windows on taskbar, Alt-TAB-TAB cyclic switches me between 3 last windows, Alt-TAB-TAB-TAB -- 4 last windows and so on. Meanwhile, when I use Tabbed interface I should click needle tab by mouse or press many times Ctrl-TAB and Ctrl-Shift-Tab. This is very annoying.
I'm looking for a good editor for a long time. Your editor is good enough except this point.
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Do you know you can use the -multiInst command line option to launch extra instances of the program?
Also, do you know you can drag the tabs to get them into a different order? (In 3.9 beta, anyway. Not sure if it was in 3.8.) If you do that with the 2 or 3 files you're currently working on there'll be less control+tabbing to do.
What might be good for you is if they added control+1 to control+9 to select tabs 1 to 9, like in Firefox. If they did add that, I'd like to see the tab number on each tab so I don't have to count them like I do in Firefox.
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Extra instances is good but not enough. There are still exists tabs and File|New, File|Open commands will create new tabs, not windows.
Possibility to sort tabs is good, but it's just a trick to suck less. In version 3.8 tab dragging is buggy in case when tabs have a different width -- in some position of cursor while dragging, the tab is jumping left and right many times per second around another tab.
No, I don't use feature of ctrl-[1-9] in firefox and I will not use it in notepad++. Cyclic switching like Alt[-Tab x N] is most powerful and useful.
Also, I has confronted by several discomforts:
1. Pressing ENTER on the left edge of line should insert new line and nothing more, but notepad++ breaks indenting spaces of current line. THIS IS A MAJOR BUG!
2. I did not find a way to bind a shortcut for erasing current line by Ctrl-Y, like many editors do (from the DOS times). Is there only way to do this is to create a macros for such simple text operation?
3. I did not find a way to make notepad++ insensitive to trailing blanks. If line contains spaces at the end -- I would like to they be removed shortly. For example, pressing End button should move me to the actual end of line without spaces. The basic principle is: if can't see something -- this should not exist. (I know that I can enable displaying invisible symbols, in this case trailing blanks may exist).
4. Internationalization of notepad++ is very-very poor, I prefer to use English language instead of my native (russian), but I even did not find a way to switch to English. Is it really need to reinstall notepad++ to switch language?
5. Pressing Home button does not moving me at the line start. It switches me between first non-space character and real line start. This is controversial point and must be optional.
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You should probably start new threads for these things, if you want people to read them. When would it be useful to have the cursor beyond the end of the line? Certainly for selecting column blocks, but apart from that I haven't felt the need for it.
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I would like to renounce from TABs and multi-file editing. I would like to have one editor instance per file.
This is because TABs are uncomfortable when simultaneously editing many files and often have to switch between several of them (2 or more).
Windows Taskbar copes better with this task. For example, Alt-TAB switches me between 2 last windows on taskbar, Alt-TAB-TAB cyclic switches me between 3 last windows, Alt-TAB-TAB-TAB -- 4 last windows and so on. Meanwhile, when I use Tabbed interface I should click needle tab by mouse or press many times Ctrl-TAB and Ctrl-Shift-Tab. This is very annoying.
I'm looking for a good editor for a long time. Your editor is good enough except this point.
Do you know you can use the -multiInst command line option to launch extra instances of the program?
Also, do you know you can drag the tabs to get them into a different order? (In 3.9 beta, anyway. Not sure if it was in 3.8.) If you do that with the 2 or 3 files you're currently working on there'll be less control+tabbing to do.
What might be good for you is if they added control+1 to control+9 to select tabs 1 to 9, like in Firefox. If they did add that, I'd like to see the tab number on each tab so I don't have to count them like I do in Firefox.
Extra instances is good but not enough. There are still exists tabs and File|New, File|Open commands will create new tabs, not windows.
Possibility to sort tabs is good, but it's just a trick to suck less. In version 3.8 tab dragging is buggy in case when tabs have a different width -- in some position of cursor while dragging, the tab is jumping left and right many times per second around another tab.
No, I don't use feature of ctrl-[1-9] in firefox and I will not use it in notepad++. Cyclic switching like Alt[-Tab x N] is most powerful and useful.
Also, I has confronted by several discomforts:
1. Pressing ENTER on the left edge of line should insert new line and nothing more, but notepad++ breaks indenting spaces of current line. THIS IS A MAJOR BUG!
2. I did not find a way to bind a shortcut for erasing current line by Ctrl-Y, like many editors do (from the DOS times). Is there only way to do this is to create a macros for such simple text operation?
3. I did not find a way to make notepad++ insensitive to trailing blanks. If line contains spaces at the end -- I would like to they be removed shortly. For example, pressing End button should move me to the actual end of line without spaces. The basic principle is: if can't see something -- this should not exist. (I know that I can enable displaying invisible symbols, in this case trailing blanks may exist).
4. Internationalization of notepad++ is very-very poor, I prefer to use English language instead of my native (russian), but I even did not find a way to switch to English. Is it really need to reinstall notepad++ to switch language?
5. Pressing Home button does not moving me at the line start. It switches me between first non-space character and real line start. This is controversial point and must be optional.
6. Cursor cannot be beyond the end of line. VERY BAD!
You should probably start new threads for these things, if you want people to read them. When would it be useful to have the cursor beyond the end of the line? Certainly for selecting column blocks, but apart from that I haven't felt the need for it.