Notepad 2e

Notepad 2e is a fork of Notepad2 by Florian Balmer (www.flos-freeware.ch), version 4.2.25.

For information about the original project please see Readme.txt and Notepad2.txt. This document describes 2e-specific features (e for Extended).

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Notepad2:

Notepad2 is a light-weight Scintilla-based text editor for Windows.
It features no tabs, code folding, autocompletion, or other features
available in IDEs or more complex editors like Notepad++.
It's just 1 EXE file and (optionally) 1 INI file.

Some folks use it to replace the standard Notepad.exe of Windows.

License: Notepad2 uses 3-clause BSD license. Notepad 2e follows the same license.

Replacing Windows (XP/7/10) Notepad

One obvious way is to overwrite all Notepad.exes inside Windows directory. However, this irritates SFC and may not persist across OS updates.

A better way is using Image File Execution Options, originally explained here. In short: #157

1. Place Notepad2e.exe somewhere. Program Files (x86)\Notepad2e\ directory is a good place.
2. Import this registry key:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\notepad.exe]
"Debugger"="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Notepad2e\\Notepad2e.exe\" /z"

• If the EXE was put elsewhere, edit the part inside the second quotes, and don't forget to double all backslashes - example: ...="\"D:\\Foo\\Bar\\MyN2e.exe\" /z"
• Attention: the EXE should not be named notepad.exe (in any char case).

Now whenever Windows needs to launch Notepad.exe it will launch the EXE you have specified instead.

INI File Location

This describes the algorithm used in Notepad2 and this fork. The process is fully Unicode-safe.

All settings are stored in a single INI file. If the program cannot find it, then default settings are used and changes to them are lost when the process exits. To make settings persistent, either put bin\Notepad2e.ini near the EXE or create one from scratch by pressing F7 (Settings > Save Settings Now).

The following locations are checked for an existing INI file, in order:

1. /f SOME.INI command-line switch (relative to program's dir, with possible %env% vars). /f0 forces no INI file even when explicitly asked for one (e.g. by F7).
2. PROGRAM.ini, where PROGRAM is the EXE's name without .exe extension, is searched in:

• Program's directory
• %APPDATA%
• %PATH%

3. Same as above but with Notepad2.ini (Notepad 2e is a drop-in replacement so its INI file works with Notepad2 and vice-versa).
4. If an INI was found, it may be further redirected: its Notepad2.ini key from [Notepad2] section is read and checked:

• If this key is non-existing or blank, the previously found INI is used
• Else, if the value is an absolute path (%env% vars expanded) to an existing file - it's used as the INI
• Else, if the path is relative (%env% vars expanded) - it's searched in the same folders as PROGRAM.ini (above) and used, if found
• Else, if the key was not blank and no INI was found - the value is used as the (new, non-existing) INI file path (prepended with program's dir if relative)

If the located INI path (PATH below) is a directory rather than a file or it ends with \ then:

1. If PATH\PROGRAM.ini exists, it's used as the INI file
2. Else, if PATH\Notepad2.ini exists, it's used as the INI file
3. Else, PATH\PROGRAM.ini is used anyway

Finally, if the INI's parent directory doesn't exist - it's created.

Extended Edition Changes

The [NEW] mark indicates a new major feature introduced by Notepad 2e. Items without this mark are changes (or minor features added) compared to the original Notepad2.

[NEW] Current Word Highlighting

Word under cursor is highlighted in one of 3 modes: #27 #1

1. One occurrence in the document. Indispensible to spot typos.
2. Two or more occurrences but all are visible on the screen.
3. Multiple occurrences with some hidden under the scrollbar.

Related settings:

• HighlightSelection
• MaxSearchDistance
• More - see Current Word Highlighting configuration section.

[NEW] Edit Selection

Allows simultaneous editing of all occurrences of the same string as the selection. Enter the mode with Ctrl+Tab (all visible substrings) or Ctrl+Backtick (limit substrings to those on the same line). Escape cancels all changes, while Enter or any command that causes cursor to leave the selected block - commits them. #18

Note: when selection is empty, this mode affects word near the cursor, and finds other substrings case-insensitively. When selection is non-empty - case-sensitive search is performed, and word boundaries are not checked.

This mode allows easy renaming of varaibles, typo corrections and so on.

Below, with cursor within foo pressing Ctrl+Tab will enter this mode and any change you do (such as typing bar) will edit all of the three foos at the same time:

$foo = "foo";
print($foo);

Related settings:

• See Current Word Highlighting section (above).

[NEW] Math Evaluation

In certain cases (such as in current selection), the file size group in the status bar is replaced with a recognized math expression's result. Left click on the group toggles the base (bin, oct, dec, hex), right click copies result (as it appears) to the clipboard.

• Selection must be shorter than 4096 symbols.
• Expression is locale-insensitive and follows English conventions so that comma is a thousands separator (and ignored) and period is a decimal part separator.
• If expression has commas but no periods and is still valid after replacing commas with periods - then the converted version is evaluated: 12,30 + ,1 = 12.40. This allows more resistance to locale-specific delimiters.
• If result has no fractional part - period and zeros are hidden from the status bar group. Fractional part is discarded if active base is any but decimal.
• The following symbols are ignored: , $. Whitespace is ignored unless it separates operands/operators.
• If expression contains = then the = and everything after it is ignored. Useful for checking calculations: 1+2=4 evaluates to 3.
• Special case: expression with only digits (including hex), radix prefix/suffixes, periods and any ignored symbols (above) is treated as a series of whitespace-separated numbers, which are summed up. For example: 12,3 45.6 $78 10h = 123+45.6+78+16 = 262.6. #72
  • Attention: don't use e symbol by itself in this special case (as in scientific notation or as a const), e.g. 1e2 or 1 e 2 - due to implementation nuances, it may not be processed as expect. But it can be part of a hex number: eh 0xe = 28. #130

The following expression tokens are recognized:

• operators: ( ) + - * / ^ (caret works as power)
• operators: div mod shl shr and or xor not
• hexadecimal base prefix: 0x
• base suffixes: b o d h

Related settings:

• MathEval

[NEW] Find Next/Previous Word

Vim-like Edit > Find Next/Previous Word (Ctrl+[Shift]+8) commands for quick case-insensitive navigation between highlighted words. It's independent of highlight mode settings and of normal Find/Replace and doesn't affect the latter's state. #38

If there's no selection then these search for word at cursor (or for nearby next/previous word). If there's selection then these search for previously used word (not for selection!) starting after last selected symbol.

Related settings:

• FindWordMatchCase
• FindWordWrapAround

[NEW] New Line Above/Below

Vim-like Edit > Lines > New Line Above/Below (Ctrl+Alt+Enter, Ctrl+Shift+Enter) commands that insert a line regardless of which column the cursor is positioned at.

If Auto Indent is enabled and the caret is already at line start/end (whitespace excluded) - indentation of the previous line is used, otherwise - of the current line. #67

Unindent By Shift+Tab

Shift+Tab always unindents selected lines (or current line if empty), even if the caret isn't at line start (exactly as Edit > Block > Unindent). #128

Tab's behaviour is not changed, it still indents to the column. #61

Find Dialog

• [NEW] Find (Ctrl+F) now has Grep/Ungrep buttons (can be quickly called with Alt+G/R). Find's settings including regexp mode are respected. In case of active selection these commands operate on selected lines only. Big buffers will see a progress bar in the status bar. #46 #29
• Submission buttons are disabled in regexp mode if Search String has errors.
• Checkboxes are disabled when certain combinations of flags render other flags invalid (e.g. regexp doesn't support whole word). #108
• Line feeds (\r and \n) are removed from Search/Replace Strings (can appear after pasting). #70
• Search and Replace String inputs handle Ctrl+Backspace hotkey (delete word before cursor). #121 #50
• [NEW] Find and other navigation commands leave certain scroll margin to preserve a customizable amount of lines (such as 33%) above and below the match. Setting: ScrollYCaretPolicy. #41
• [NEW] The Find icon on the toolbar changes to the Stop icon whenever the search (Find, Replace or Find Word) hits last result in that direction, regardless of the Wrap around flag.
• Find respects the Match case flag even with Cyrillic characters in the search string. #9

[NEW] Open Previous

File > Open Previous (Alt+G) command lets you toggle between two most recent History files with one keystroke. #8

[NEW] Open By Prefix

Open Dialog allows opening by prefix - so instead of typing the full file name or selecting a file with your mouse you can only type the name's beginning and hit Enter (or click Open) to open the first matching file. #19

If entered string is a wildcard (e.g. *.txt) then the first matching file is opened. This overrides standard Windows behaviour when the file list would be filtered instead of opening a file.

Note: prefix cannot match one of reserved file system names such as NUL and CON (case-insensitive).

Related settings:

• OpenDialogByPrefix

[NEW] Open Next/Previous

File > Open Next/Previous commands allow opening files going before/after current in the currently opened file's directory (this is determined by regular name sorting, it doesn't depend on how Explorer or Open Dialog sorts files). #43

These commands have no hotkeys but they can be added as buttons to the toolbar.

Default Save Extension

When saving, new file's extension is determined first by DefaultExtension setting (as in Notepad2) but if current file was previously opened from or saved to disk then its old extension is used as the default (even if that extension is empty). #17

When saving, if the given new file name ends on period then the file is saved without extension. Example: enter Makefile. to get Makefile on disk.

File Dialogs

• [NEW] Rename To (Alt+F6) command acts as Save As but deletes original file on success. Due to Windows Save File dialog limitation, it can't be used if new name only differs in character case. #140
• Open/Save File dialogs now start with the path of last opened file. #22
• Improved directory locking - in some cases a directory could not be removed even after opening a file in another directory due to Windows' Open Dialog operation. #100

Insert Tag (Alt+X)

• Skips leading/trailing whitespace within the selection. This way you don't care about selection precision and can, for example, click on line number to select a full line and wrap it in <p> without </p> appearing after the line break. #30
• Remembers Opening and Closing tags until the program is closed.
• Supports { ( [ in addition to < when auto filling Closing tag. Example: {{#if var}} produces {{/if}}, [quote] produces [/quote]. #36
• Skips leading non-word symbols when determining tag name: {{ #if }} is the same as {{#if}} and produces {{/if}}, not {{/}} as in Notepad2.
• Supports HTML5 tags (in addition to XHTML/HTML 4.x tags from Notepad2). #120
• Sets Closing tag to Opening tag if the latter doesn't contain < and >. Useful when editing certain markup. #24
• In Notepad2, Auto Close HTML corrupts non-Latin tags in UTF-8 buffers - this is fixed. #112

Go To (Ctrl+G)

• Extracts first number from Line and Column instead of requiring a strictly numeric value. For example, abc567.89 navigates to 567. #14
• [NEW] Navigation by absolute Offset in the buffer. Respects different charsets to the best effort possible. Value is normalized: #2
  1. Leading symbols that are not 0-9 A-Z a-z are removed.
  2. If remainder consists of 0-9 then use it as a decimal offset and return.
  3. Remove possible leading 0x and/or h.
  4. If remainder consists of 0-9 A-F a-f then use it as a hexadecimal offset and return.
  5. In other cases do nothing and don't close the dialog.
• Input priority: use Offset if non-empty, else use Column+Line if Column non-empty, else use only Line.

File > Launch

• [NEW] File > Launch > Shell Menu (Ctrl+Shift+R) command invokes Explorer's context menu for currently opened file. Current directory is set to the file's path. Setting: ShellMenuType. #12
• [NEW] File > Launch > Open Folder (Ctrl+Alt+L) command that opens Explorer's window with the current file selected. #136
• File > Launch > Command (Ctrl+R) retains the command string until another file is opened and sets current directory to that of the file. #26

Line Selection Hotkeys

Due to it accidental nature, disabled triple-click and triple-Ctrl+Space Scintilla behaviour that previously caused selection of the entire line. Full line can still be selected with standard Ctrl+Shift+Space hotkey, or by clicking on the line number.

Line Gutter

• Default gutter style was changed from size:-2;fore:#ff0000 to size:-1.
• Gutter is now automatically resized if it can't fit max line number on the following operations:
  • Reload Settings From Disk
  • Syntax Scheme...
  • 2nd Default Schemes...
  • Customize Schemes...
  • Preview button in Customize Schemes... dialog
  • Default Font...
  • Default lexer setting (F11)
  • HTML lexer setting (Ctrl+F11)
  • XML lexer setting (Shift+F11)
  • Zoom level change (Ctrl++/-)
  • File saving

PCRE Support

• Replaced incomplete Notepad2 regexp implementation with a fully-featured Boost regex - with (a|b), backreferences \1 (both in Search and Replace Strings) and other features. #90 #114
• One particularly useful feature is ability to change character case with new escape codes: \l (one next symbol becomes lower-case), \L (all following become lower-case), \u and \U (similar but for upper-case), \E (cancels effect of the preceding \L and \U). Example: replace from (.)(.) to \l\1\u\2.
• Original Notepad2's regexp didn't support UTF-8 buffers (only ASCII) - Boost's does. #78
• Boost was hacked to allow Replace string to contain NUL (\0) - normally it truncates the buffer.
• Attention: there are two kinds of backreferences (\n and $n) and unlike in PHP they are used differently: #145

Backreference	Allowed in Search	Allowed in Replace
\0	No	No - use $0 or $&
\n with n > 0	Yes	Yes
$0	No - $ = EOL	Yes - alias $&
$n with n > 0	No	Yes

Bottomline: use \n (n > 0) everywhere except for full-match in Replace - there use $0.

Enclose Selection (Alt+Q)

• Skips leading/trailing whitespace within the selection. For example, enclosindg space + foo + space produces space + (foo) + space instead of ( foo ).
• When "before" string consists of one of these characters: { ( [ < then "after" is set to the same number of } ) ] >.
• When "before" consists of one of the characters below then "after" is set to the same string as "before":

` ~ ! @ # % ^ * - _ +  = | \ / : ; " ' , . ?

These changes make editing Markdown and wiki sources much more pleasant: [[foo|bar]], **foo bar**. #37

Wrap/Unwrap Commands

• [NEW] Edit > Block > Unwrap Brackes At Cursor (Ctrl+Shift+3) command compliments Notepad2's Ctrl+3-5. This command removes brackets of type ( { [ < around the caret (whichever bracket type appears first). Respects nesting. #39
• [NEW] Edit > Block > Unwrap Quotes At Cursor (Ctrl+Shift+4) command compliments Notepad2's Ctrl+1-2/6. This command removes matching " ' (and backtick) around the caret (text is scanned to the left to determine the quote type). Does not account for nesting or escaping. Multiline.
• Original wrap commands (Ctrl+1-6) skip leading/trailing whitespace within the selection.

Special Commands

HTML data:

• [NEW] Edit > Special > Strip HTML Tags (Shift+Alt+X) command removes <tags> inside selection, or if there's none - removes first tag before cursor. #40
• [NEW] Edit > Special > Escape HTML (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+X) command turns < > & into < > & respectively (inside selection or everywhere in the document if selection is empty). #51 #31

Binary data:

• [NEW] Edit > Special > String To Hex and Hex To String ([Ctrl+]Alt+Shift+A) operate on the document as a bytestream similarly to PHP's bin2hex() and hex2bin(). Hex To String ignores whitespace (#123). Output: 616263 for abc. #87
• [NEW] Edit > Special > QP Encode and QP Decode ([Ctrl+]Alt+Shift+Q) operate on the document as a bytestream similarly to PHP's quoted_printable_encode() and quoted_printable_decode(). Output: ab=3Dc for ab=c. See RFC2045, Section 6.7 (this format is typically used in vCards and MIME). #124
• [NEW] Edit > Special > Base64 Encode and Base64 Decode ([Ctrl+]Alt+Shift+W) operate on the document as a bytestream similarly to PHP's base64_encode() and base64_decode(). Base64 Decode ignores whitespace. Output: YWJj for abc. #122
• Big buffers will see a progress bar in the status bar for the above commands.

Warning: if you're saving binary data (e.g. base64-encoding a binary file) make sure to disable both checkboxes in File > Line Endings > Default.

[NEW] Ctrl+Wheel Scroll

Rolling mouse wheel while holding Ctrl scrolls the document by entire pages (like Page Up/Down) - makes it easier to navigate long scripts. #11

Related settings:

• WheelScroll
• WheelScrollInterval

Highlight Line

Ability to keep current line highlighted even if the window is not focused (especially useful when using Windows' X-Mouse feature).

Related settings:

• HighlightLineIfWindowInactive

Drop Text

When dropping an object from another application on an empty line - line break is added automatically. #63 #110

Useful when creating snippets or lists from other sources - such as from URLs; no more need to manually insert line breaks after each drop.

Copy Add (Ctrl+E)

• Uses single line break instead of double. #28
• When called with empty selection - appends the entire line.
• In Notepad2, it didn't work with empty clipboard - now it works.

Retain Position On Recode

When file is re-coded (File > Encoding menu items) caret position and selection are retained, to the best effort possible. #7

[NEW] Go To Last Change

Go To Last Change (Ctrl+Shift+Z) command moves caret to the position of last Undo action. Useful when making a change, scrolling to confirm something and then navigating back to continue. #6

Join Lines

Join Lines and Join Paragraphs (Ctrl+[Shift+]J) adjust selection's end so that it doesn't include trailing line break(s). #135

Setting Commands

• [NEW] Replace Settings in All Instances command makes all other instances reload the INI from disk. Useful if you have dozens of Notepad2 windows open and need to change settings in one of them and have them saved (normally when an instance quits it overwrites the INI with its own settings). With this command you can do Save Settings Now, then Replace to ensure your new settings are not overwritten. #5
• [NEW] Reload Settings from Disk (Alt+F7) command replaces all settings in current window with fresh version read from the INI file. #16
• Save Settings On Exit was extended to allow a third value: Recent Files/Search Strings. This allows you to customize Notepad 2e once, Save Settings and then not worry that temporary changes (from a particular instance) will be saved, at the same time allowing the program to save file History and Find/Replace strings. #101
• Save Settings On Exit can be also changed with a toolbar button (toggles between All... and Recent... values). #95

[NEW] Language Indicator

Window's title reflects current keyboard language, if configured with TitleLanguage. For example: Untitled - Notepad 2e [RU]. #86

Related settings:

• TitleLanguage

Other Changes

• Replaced polling File Change Notification mechanism with a proper instant change listener, making the program suitable for watching log files (tail -f-style). #129
• Sort Lines (Alt+O) and Modify Lines (Alt+M) operate on the entire document if selection is empty (Notepad2 does nothing in this case). #133
• Links of Modify Lines (Alt+M) dialog ($(L) and others) are simply inserted into a focused input instead of replacing its value. #119
• Ability to retain caret position and selection on right click. Setting: MoveCaretOnRightClick.
• "Accelerated" navigation mode for Ctrl+Arrow (like in Windows Notepad) that skips punctuation and other characters. Setting: WordNavigationMode.
• File > Encoding > UTF-8 has Shift+F8 hotkey assigned. #21
• File > Line Endings > Unix has Alt+F8 hotkey assigned. #44
• If large file loading stops due to memory limit, an error message is produced (Notepad2 silently stops loading it). #126
• Fixed Notepad2 bug in processing [Toolbar Labels] INI section. #150
• Upgraded Scintilla library to a more recent version (3.6.6).
• Added <supportedOS> manifest entries for Windows 10/8.1/8 (Server 2016/2012/R2), in addition to Windows 7/Vista (Server 2008/R2). #159

Undocumented Notepad2 Features

• Rectangular selection mode is actually supported - hold Alt while dragging your mouse to make a selection. This is particularly useful for Column sort in Sort Lines (Alt+O).
• Web search: if you set WebTemplate1 (or WebTemplate2) setting in the INI to https://google.com/search?q=%s and then press Ctrl+Shift+1-2 with non-empty selection - you will be navigated to that URL (%s replaced with a selection string, not URL-encoded).
• If Replace's dialog Replace With is ^c - clipboard contents is used instead of this string.
• If the program is started with /B flag, it enters "Pasteboard mode" where new content on the clipboard is automatically added to the buffer.
• [Custom Colors] INI section is used to fill the "Custom colors" control of Fore/Back color pickers in Customize Schemes. #149

Syntax Schemes

[NEW] These syntax schemes were added:

• ASN1
• bash
• CoffeeScript
• D
• Lisp
• Lua
• Markdown
• NSIS Script
• OCaml
• Ruby
• Rust
• TeX
• YAML

CSS syntax scheme was improved:

• Added CSS 3 properties. #4
• Enabled //-inline comments (Ctrl+Q) that are used in LESS, SASS and other preprocessors. #4
• Fixed brackets of nested rules not matching in some cases (visually and when using Ctrl+B). #4
• Related setting: CSSSettings.

Lua syntax scheme was improved:

• Added single-line: --... and multi-line comments: --[[...]]. #111

Extended Edition INI Changes

Settings in this section extend Notepad2's values and thus appear under its own INI groups, normally under [Settings].

SaveSettings

Type	Default	Set By UI
int	1 (if INI exists)	Settings > Save Settings On Exit

Causes the program to save its settings on exit. Any changes to the INI file from the time this process was started are overwritten.

Saving is only possible when an INI file exists. The easiest way to create it is using Save Settings Now (F7) command.

Value	Meaning
0	Don't save settings
1	Save all settings
2	[NEW] Save only Recent Files and Search Strings but no settings

[NEW] Extended Edition INI Configuration

Notepad2 stores all of its settings in Notepad2.ini (or rather in exe_base_name.ini). Notepad 2e uses the same file but puts its settings under the [Notepad2e] group.

DebugLog

Type	Default	Set By UI
int, bool	0

Enables creation of debug log file n2e_log.log in the program's folder.

CSSSettings

Type	Default	Set By UI
int, bitfield	2

Extend standard CSS highlighting to support:

Bit	Type
1	Sassy
2	LESS
4	HSS

It's a bitfield so bits can be combined: 3 = Sassy + LESS.

FindWordMatchCase & FindWordWrapAround

Type	Default	Set By UI
int, bool	0

These control Ctrl[+Shift]+8 search like normal Find dialog flags.

The Match whole word only flag is always enabled for those commands so it can't be customized.

HighlightLineIfWindowInactive

Type	Default	Set By UI
int, bool	0

If 0, current line is stops being highlighted when window is inactive (default Notepad2 behaviour).

If 1, highlighting is independent of window focus (always visible if enabled).

OpenDialogByPrefix

Type	Default	Set By UI
int, bool	1

If 1, Open File dialog can be submitted even if just a prefix of an existing file's name or a mask was entered.

ScrollYCaretPolicy

Type	Default	Set By UI
int	0

Sets vertical margin for commands that can scroll the buffer, including:

• F3, F2, Ctrl+8 and their Shift versions
• Ctrl+], Ctrl+[ and their Shift versions
• Page Up, Page Down and their Shift, Alt+Shift versions

Value	Meaning
0	Margin of 4 extra lines (as in Notepad2)
1	33% margin
2	50% margin (central line)

MathEval

Type	Default	Set By UI
int	0	Settings > Evaluate Math Expressions

Controls math expression evaluation. #88

Value	Meaning
0	No evaluation (as in Notepad2)
1	Evaluate selection (if it's a valid expression)
2	Evaluate selection or, if empty - entire current line (if valid)

TitleLanguage

Type	Default	Set By UI
int	0	Settings > Window Title Display

Controls keyboard language display in window's title.

Value	Meaning
0	No indication (as in Notepad2)
1	Always add language name as in ... [RU]
2	As 1 but don't add if the language is English (EN)

ShellMenuType

Type	Default	Set By UI
int, bitfield	0

Controls behaviour of Shell Menu (Ctrl+Shift+R). For values see uFlags at this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb776097(v=vs.85).aspx

These flags affect how the menu looks like and which commands are available; it's highly dependent on the OS and particular environment. Useful values you may try in case of problems (mainly on Windows XP):

• ShellMenuType=16
• ShellMenuType=4

Bit	Type
0x00000000	NORMAL
0x00000001	DEFAULTONLY
0x00000002	VERBSONLY
0x00000004	EXPLORE
0x00000008	NOVERBS
0x00000010	CANRENAME
0x00000020	NODEFAULT
0x00000040	INCLUDESTATIC
0x00000080	ITEMMENU
0x00000100	EXTENDEDVERBS
0x00000200	DISABLEDVERBS
0x00000400	ASYNCVERBSTATE
0x00000800	OPTIMIZEFORINVOKE
0x00001000	SYNCCASCADEMENU
0x00002000	DONOTPICKDEFAULT
0xFFFF0000	RESERVED

WheelScroll

Type	Default	Set By UI
int, bool	1	Settings > Ctrl+Wheel Scroll

If 0 then Ctrl+Wheel changes zoom level.

If 1 then Ctrl+Wheel scrolls the document by entire pages.

WheelScrollInterval

Type	Default	Set By UI
int, ms	50 ms

when using Ctrl+Wheel, buffer will be scrolled at most once per this interval. Edit it if the program skips wheel rotations or is too sensitive.

Necessary because Windows fires a handful of wheel scroll events per one real scroll.

MoveCaretOnRightClick

Type	Default	Set By UI
int, bool	1	Settings > Move Caret On Right Click

If 0 - caret is not moved and selection is not changed on right mouse button click. #54

WordNavigationMode

Type	Default	Set By UI
int, bool	0	Settings > Ctrl+Arrow Navigation

Controls Ctrl+Arrow navigation. If 1, enables "accelerated" mode where only whitespace is considered a word boundary, not punctuation, brackets, etc. (useful when working with natural language texts, not program code). #89 #156

Current Word Highlighting

Settings in this section that begin with _ have variations depending on highlighting conditions; all variations have the same format and meaning but may have different default values and apply in different situations.

Prefix	Conditions
(none)	Multiple occurrences, some are not visible on screen
Page	Multiple occurrences, all are visible on screen
Single	Single occurrence
Edit	Edit Mode active

For example, _SelectionType expands to the following settings:

SelectionType
PageSelectionType
SingleSelectionType
EditSelectionType

HighlightSelection

Type	Default	Set By UI
int, bool	1	View > Highlight Current Word

If 1, enables both current word highlighting and Edit Mode. Edit Mode doesn't work if highlighting is disabled.

MaxSearchDistance

Type	Default	Set By UI
int, KiB	96 KiB

Maximum lookahead/behind distance for word highlighting. If too large, navigation in big files will lag since it will search the buffer for twice this length (back & forward) on every position change. #53 #42

_SelectionType

Type	Default	Set By UI
int	7 (INDIC_ROUNDBOX - Page, Edit), 6 (INDIC_BOX - others)

Decoration type. Value 5 disables this condition indication (other settings are ignored) - can be used, for example, to disable special rendering of Single occurrence.

• For Edit (and other modes), 5 disables indication only - Edit Mode still continues to work. Note that value 0 doesn't disable indication as one might think (see the table below and #146 for the why).
• If you want to disable highlighting and Edit Mode then use HighlightSelection setting as it removes all highlighting overhead.
• Adjust search distance (performance on large buffers) with MaxSearchDistance.

For details and examples see: http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#Indicators

Symbol	Value
INDIC_PLAIN	0
INDIC_SQUIGGLE	1
INDIC_TT	2
INDIC_DIAGONAL	3
INDIC_STRIKE	4
INDIC_HIDDEN	5
INDIC_BOX	6
INDIC_ROUNDBOX	7
INDIC_STRAIGHTBOX	8
INDIC_FULLBOX	16
INDIC_DASH	9
INDIC_DOTS	10
INDIC_SQUIGGLELOW	11
INDIC_DOTBOX	12
INDIC_SQUIGGLEPIXMAP	13
INDIC_COMPOSITIONTHICK	14
INDIC_COMPOSITIONTHIN	15
INDIC_TEXTFORE	17
INDIC_POINT	18
INDIC_POINTCHARACTER	19

_SelectionAlpha

Type	Default	Set By UI
int	50 (Page, Edit), 0 (others)

Opacity value (0-255) for foreground highlight color.

_SelectionLineAlpha

Type	Default	Set By UI
int	255 (Page, Edit), 0 (others)

Opacity value (0-255) for highlight outline color.

_SelectionColor

Type	Default	Set By UI
str, BGR	Varies (below)

Condition	Default (RGB)
Multiple invisible	#00AA00
Page	#999900
Single	#900000
Edit	#0000FF

Foreground highlight color like 0xFF0000 (blue - not RGB!).

_SelectionUnder

Type	Default	Set By UI
int, bool	1 (under - Page, Edit), 0 (over - others)

Corresponds to Scintilla's SCI_INDICSETUNDER:

[...] whether an indicator is drawn under text or over (default).