@n3tcom said in Vertical tabs with horizontal text?:

PLEASE consider proper vertical tabs! The current “feature” feels like it was implemented as a troll to everyone that bothered asking for proper vertical tabs over the years

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it blow my mind that we still do not have this in 2025

Easily explainable if no one has officially requested it, and/or if the developer never thought of it, was never interested in it, or believes that the Document List feature is close enough.

@n3tcom said:

so the best we get across most of the better note apps is this repurposed function list solution

And so you yearn for something better?
I’m not sure what form that would take, as the function-list solution works reasonably.

@pockytu

Go to Plugin Admin, type fold into the Search box and keep clicking Next until you see Folding Line Hider. Check the checkbox and click the Install button. After Notepad++ restart, it should be active at hiding the fold lines.

Description of the plugin:

This Notepad++ plugin can hide the unsightly folding lines, and for convenience, you can fold and unfold the current level using the Alt + Left/Right keys.
Author: leonardchai@gmail.com
Homepage: https://github.com/leonardchai/FoldingLineHider

@Max-Alekseyev

The captions on those buttons are controlled by Windows instelf, not Notepad++.

actually I think they’re only two: config xml and shortcuts.xml,

If used, there is also toolbarIcons.xml and overrideMap.xml

It appears that the “shortcoming” has been FIXED and should appear in the next Notepad++ release.
Nice.