Show search result on top or bottom of current view

[Thomas__]

Hi,

I would like to have an option in “Find” window (or general setting) where I can specify if a search result is shown in the middle (this is currently standard as it looks like) or on top or on bottom of the current view.

Reason:
Sometimes the content below a search result is important,
sometime the content above a search is important
and sometimes the middle is perfect.

Very very nice would be if in “Find” window I could specify the numbers of lines above and below a test result are shown (and all others disappear).
;-)

Thank you in advance!
And thank for this GREAT software!!!

Best regards
Thomas

[Alan Kilborn]

@Thomas-Weiß

So…that sounds like a feature request, and that’s fine, except no one that matters to the process of handling that feature request will see it here. The proper place for a feature request is found by following the instructions HERE.

That being said, it is possible your feature request will not be acted upon. :-(

But…something could be scripted such that when you hit a keycombo, the line of the caret is “jumped” to the top/bottom of the current viewport – would that be valuable?

I’m thinking something like what was presented HERE.

[Thomas__]

@Alan-Kilborn

Thank you very much for that hint.
I have placed the feature request here.
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9629

Feel free to support it!
;-)

Best regards
Thomas

[Alan Kilborn]

So I ended up scripting a little mock up demo of this, which I won’t post unless there’s interest, but really there’s only a couple of new things that need to happen after a search match to make this work:

• find the number of lines shown on screen

• set the first visible line to a correct value (based upon the starting line of a find match, and the number of lines shown on screen, and of course the desired effect specified by the OP)

• hmm, maybe it gets a tad more complicated if text between the match and the top of screen has folded/hidden lines…

However, looking at how N++ moves the display/selection when a match is found, there seems to be a lot going on with the logic, so I’m not sure how well any changes would fit in.