@Chad-Coffman - I use npp’s search feature to navigate within a huge file. I also take advantage of the fact that a “word” in npp is a consecutive series of letters, digits, and the _ (underscore) symbol. At the top or bottom of a file I’ll have an index or summary and use something like:
* Section_01 - Overview of the issue
* Section_02 - Some section of the file
* Section_03 - Another section of the file
At the start of each section I have something like
Section_03 - Another section of the file
To navigate to section 3 I double click on Section_03 in the index to highlight that word, Ctrl-F to bring up the find box, and then hit Enter. I suspect I could add a npp keyboard shortcut to search for the hightlighted word if there’s not already one. My fingers are happy with Ctrl-F Enter.
While I used Section_01, … 03 in the example you can use any string for the section labels. I stick with the [a-z0-9] character set for section labels as it’s easy to select the entire word with either double click or Ctrl-shift left or right arrow.
The downside of that approach is there’s no “back” button to jump back to where I used to be in a file.
I also take advantage of file://… links to jump from file to file within npp and/or to launch viewers such as Firefox.
For example, I’m currently dealing with AT&T about some stuff related to my DSL connection. In my ATT-DSL.txt project file I’ll have something like
03/12/2017 Received postal letter confirming automatic payment
file://c:/Projects/ATT-DSL/2017-03-12-Confirmation-letter-for-automatic-payment.png
file://c:/Projects/ATT-DSL/2017-03-12-Confirmation-letter-for-automatic-payment.txt
The main project file has a summary. If I want to see the letter itself I can click on either the .png link which will pull up a scan in a web browser or the .txt link which is the results of running the png through an OCR program.
