@fml2 said in Feature Request / Question: Soft Wrap at Vertical Edge (Column 80) regardless of window size:

That’s interesting! I’d think that a NP++ plugin can only do things that are also possible in NP++ itself since the underlying engine is the same.

There is a way to do it in Scintilla:
SCI_SETMARGINLEFT and SCI_SETMARGINRIGHT set margins, in pixels.

A plugin, or a PythonScript, could determine the displayable text width of the Scintilla control (I think that would require getting the client width of the Scintilla control with GetClientRect, then using SCI_GETMARGINS to find the number of active margins and iterating through them with SCI_GETMARGINWIDTHN to subtract the margins; there might be an easier way that hasn’t occurred to me) and the width of a string of characters of the desired length (SCI_TEXTWIDTH with style 0), subtract, divide by two and set that margin on each side.

@PeterJones, I certainly wasn’t being critical of Notepad++ because of this. I’m just surprised to learn that it doesn’t have that feature.

I thought since the Everything search program and the DuckDuckGo search box prevent text from spreading out and keep it all in one line, it would be possible for it to be done in Notepad++, and there are several useful reasons to have that feature (some that I’m not aware of) that others would find useful.

I thought that with all of the functionality in this software, it would have a feature to ignore those codes. Something akin to Paste Special > Unformatted Text, More Options in LibreOffice Writer that could be done with a one-click feature.

@David-Brown i came here to let you know that my receipt had what appears to be his email address on it (which i’ve blocked out here for privacy):

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seems legit to me, but i can’t know for sure. :)

@Ilhan-Yumer ,

The developer does not read most posts in this Forum. If you would like to suggest such a move to the developer, I would recommend creating a new Issue at GitHub requesting it (https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues).

@Lycan-Thrope

so if I’ve already auto-updated from 8.8.8 to 8.9.1, would it be necessary or advised to run it again, manually?

Once you have v8.9.1 installed, it won’t be necessary to update your Notepad++ manually - you can just let auto-updater do its job.

Turns out it was an issue with the GPU driver, which has now been patched.