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    • Nick BrownN
      Nick Brown @Evgeny Morozov
      last edited by

      @Evgeny-Morozov

      using the Python Script plugin and the following

      editor.setMarginLeft(99)

      where 99 is the number of pixels for the left margin, the default is 1 pixel.

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      • Evgeny MorozovE
        Evgeny Morozov @Nick Brown
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        • Evgeny MorozovE
          Evgeny Morozov @Nick Brown
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          @Nick-Brown said in How to add a gap between letters and border of N++ window?:

          @Evgeny-Morozov

          using the Python Script plugin and the following

          editor.setMarginLeft(99)

          where 99 is the number of pixels for the left margin, the default is 1 pixel.

          It does not work for me…

          I added editor.setMarginLeft(99) in startup.py

          c9496913-8aef-4198-9e90-caad9164b28f-image.png

          and choosed ATSTARTUP option in confog window:

          eba44f65-2c76-4697-bdd7-de6523b3398e-image.png

          What do I do wrong?

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          • Alan KilbornA
            Alan Kilborn @Evgeny Morozov
            last edited by

            @Evgeny-Morozov

            You probably don’t have any margin turned on, so setting a width doesn’t do much for you.

            Why not turn on the line-number or bookmark margins?

            I have trouble understanding why a small number of people are bothered by how close their text is to a window edge.

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            • TroshinDVT
              TroshinDV @Nick Brown
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              @Nick-Brown Screenshot_241.png

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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn @TroshinDV
                last edited by

                @Дмитрий-Трошин

                Border Width doesn’t do anything for what seems to be the OP’s complaint. I’ll show you:

                Border Width = 2:

                Imgur

                Border Width = 30 (max):

                Imgur

                See how the b in blah has nothing like the “1 mm gap” the OP desires with EITHER border width setting?

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                • EkopalypseE
                  Ekopalypse
                  last edited by Ekopalypse

                  @Alan-Kilborn said in How to add a gap between letters and border of N++ window?:

                  You probably don’t have any margin turned on

                  Curious, how would one do that? I was under the impression that the
                  blank margin is always active.

                  @Evgeny-Morozov
                  Npp knows two editor objects named editor1 and editor2.
                  editor points to one of those and is the current one used.
                  Change your code to

                  editor1.set...
                  editor2.set...
                  

                  to be sure that both editor objects are affected. In addition I would recommend not to use the standard startup.py file but to create a user startup.py. Simply by using the PythonScript menu and choose New script and name it startup.py.

                  Can you check if you see an error in the PythonScript console?
                  Plugins->PythonScript->Show Console

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                  • ArkadiuszMichalskiA
                    ArkadiuszMichalski
                    last edited by

                    https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/2323 << closed unnecessarily because the extra space may be important for some. You can ask to reopen.

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                    • Alan KilbornA
                      Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                      last edited by Alan Kilborn

                      Regarding:

                      “You probably don’t have any margin turned on”

                      @Ekopalypse said :

                      Curious, how would one do that? I was under the impression that the
                      blank margin is always active.

                      What is this “blank margin”??

                      So without any plugins that might create additional margins, I think N++ has 3 possible margins:

                      1. Line number
                      2. Bookmark
                      3. Fold (for certain Language types, e.g. Python)

                      If you have them all turned off, like this (see the red dots):

                      6b059aba-e086-47a7-a7dd-21c4a096628a-image.png

                      Then you have a “don’t have any margin turned on” situation – or maybe I’m misunderstanding something?

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                      • EkopalypseE
                        Ekopalypse
                        last edited by

                        @Alan-Kilborn

                        https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETMARGINLEFT

                        uses the blank margin to insert space between the border and the text.
                        Hence the solution provided by @Nick-Brown should work and this
                        margin is not, as far as I know, related to the other “visible” margins.

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                        • Alan KilbornA
                          Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                          last edited by Alan Kilborn

                          @Ekopalypse

                          Ah, it is somewhat confusing because it isn’t a real “margin” like the others I called out.
                          So, apparently it was just that the OP had some sort of problem getting the Pythonscript solution to work.
                          Maybe should try a NppExec solution?

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                          • EkopalypseE
                            Ekopalypse
                            last edited by

                            Yes, took me some time to figure out that this isn’t one of the other
                            margins while I was testing it some time ago. :-)

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                            • Evgeny MorozovE
                              Evgeny Morozov @Ekopalypse
                              last edited by

                              @Ekopalypse said in How to add a gap between letters and border of N++ window?:

                              @Alan-Kilborn said in How to add a gap between letters and border of N++ window?:

                              You probably don’t have any margin turned on

                              Curious, how would one do that? I was under the impression that the
                              blank margin is always active.

                              @Evgeny-Morozov
                              Npp knows two editor objects named editor1 and editor2.
                              editor points to one of those and is the current one used.
                              Change your code to

                              editor1.set...
                              editor2.set...
                              

                              to be sure that both editor objects are affected. In addition I would recommend not to use the standard startup.py file but to create a user startup.py. Simply by using the PythonScript menu and choose New script and name it startup.py.

                              Can you check if you see an error in the PythonScript console?
                              Plugins->PythonScript->Show Console

                              It does not work too. :((((

                              I created user scrypt startup.py.

                              Here is contents:

                              87c7027b-625b-4bff-afd7-5688f28cbebf-image.png

                              I restarted Notepad++
                              Run scrupt using menu:

                              e7f8f92c-abd3-411d-9c55-86e05f61fd9a-image.png

                              But there is still no space:
                              ff216fea-7565-46ee-b19d-65eaa29e0e25-image.png

                              Console is empty
                              247de44e-27a3-448d-a316-c42f07abe2c7-image.png

                              I enter commands manually:
                              6bc86517-d5eb-4b5d-b7f3-129e67a4dae1-image.png

                              But nothing happens

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                              • EkopalypseE
                                Ekopalypse @Evgeny Morozov
                                last edited by

                                @Evgeny-Morozov

                                Can you post your debug-info, which is available from ? menu?

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                                • Evgeny MorozovE
                                  Evgeny Morozov @Ekopalypse
                                  last edited by

                                  @Ekopalypse said in How to add a gap between letters and border of N++ window?:

                                  @Evgeny-Morozov

                                  Can you post your debug-info, which is available from ? menu?

                                  Can you please explain there to find that debug info?

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                                  • EkopalypseE
                                    Ekopalypse @Evgeny Morozov
                                    last edited by

                                    @Evgeny-Morozov

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                                    • Evgeny MorozovE
                                      Evgeny Morozov @Ekopalypse
                                      last edited by

                                      @Ekopalypse said in How to add a gap between letters and border of N++ window?:

                                      @Evgeny-Morozov

                                      b3d5c721-8f4d-4b46-b790-d37521c520b9-image.png

                                      Surprisingly it works!
                                      Maybe I have not closed one txt file opened in N++

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                                      • EkopalypseE
                                        Ekopalypse
                                        last edited by

                                        @Evgeny-Morozov

                                        Great that it works - still confused that calling the two methods from the console didn’t work.

                                        So the only other thing is that your user startup.py should only contain the two setMarginLeft… lines. The other stuff will get initialized from the standard startup.py.

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                                        • Makwana PrahladM
                                          Makwana Prahlad Banned
                                          last edited by

                                          Hello,@Evgeny-Morozov

                                          Please follow this steps,To How to add a gap between letters and border of N++ window?

                                          Step 1:- Open your file in Notepad++
                                          Step 2:- Press Ctrl+H to open the Replace window.
                                          Step 3:- Change the “Search Mode” to Regular expression.
                                          Step 4:- In the “Find what” box, type (\n|^)
                                          Step 5:- In the “Replace with” box, type \1
                                          Step 6:- Then click “Replace All”

                                          Note: If you want tabs instead of spaces, a tab character can be typed with Alt+09

                                          I hope this information will be useful to you.
                                          Thank you.

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                                          • Alan KilbornA
                                            Alan Kilborn @Makwana Prahlad
                                            last edited by

                                            Future readers: Please disregard the posting here (and anywhere else on this site) by @Makwana-Prahlad . It is talking about something irrelevant to the topic at hand.

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