@Unknow0059
it can be used when programming. For example I have a small python program, a line can be indented with respect to the one above (in much the same way as a for loop for example has indented code within it). This ‘column’ can then be used to hide that indented code.

If you don’t want it, consider
Preferences - Editing - Folder Margin Style and select “None”. That removes it for me.

Terry

@Andrew-Cutforth

I don’t think anyone is offended, but usually such postings have something like this at the bottom:

Full disclosure: I am the author and I charge money for this.

So when automatic backups controlled by Notepad++ were suspected of being related to the NUL NUL NUL problem, I turned that feature off and created my own backup-on-every-save feature using Pythonscript and WinZip (command-line). I’m not saying that it is the best-thing-ever, but it works (for me), and it is cheap (free), easy and useful. I guess what I’m trying to say is that it is not all that hard to come up with an independent backup solution for Notepad++ -edited files. This is not to take away anything from your solution, Andrew, just to point out other options. :-)

very good, maybe I can integrate my modifications with yours and make a pull request.
I will do it when I will have some time

where do you find the colors for the tabs and borders aso?

Thank you Scott!

Hello, dinkumoil and All,

Your report of all your investigations was really interesting. So, as you say, we must live with that fact !

In return, you could find some interest, too, in reading these two technical reports, of the Unicode consortium, below, which can be used as a reference text :

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/

I just have a glance to these documents, reading some parts and, like me, you’ll understand the complexity and richness of all the technical solutions envisaged to satisfy everyone, regardless of their mother tongue ;-))

By the way, I do like this sentence, given in the preamble of the link What is Unicode? :

Unicode provides a unique number for every character,

no matter what the platform,

no matter what the program,

no matter what the language.

Best Regards,

guy038

@Denis-Marin

I suppose you haven’t taken the time to work with Customize Toolbar to make it do what you want. I’m sure it is possible; probably just requires a bit of “extra effort”.

Just a thought, but you could add Save As… to the right-click context menu (the one where Cut / Copy / Paste / etc. appear). This might be almost as good as a toolbar button as it would allow invoking the action from the mouse, but I suppose in reality that is no better than going File -> Save As… (equivalent number of actions).