The ability to add some top padding would be great. The top line of text has no padding at all.

Did you read my last post in this discussion? The library that Notepad++ uses doesn’t have the feature to add top/bottom padding, so Notepad++ cannot make use of a non-existent feature. Someone who wanted that feature would have to request it from the library, they would have to implement it, and then Notepad++ would have to update its copy of the library. Since no one has taken step 1, saying “me too” is futile.

@PeterJones I meant

something like this Padding Left/Right setting, but for upper space between the text field and program window/tab bar.

The ability to add some top padding would be great. The top line of text has no padding at all.

@PeterJones Can it be added as feature request?

See the FAQ. But since the library might control that section of the screen, I don’t know whether there’s anything the Notepad++ developers can do about it – it may have to be changed in the library first. But I don’t know enough about the source code to be the deciding factor on that.

As far as I know, the underlying Scintilla library that Notepad++ uses for that has the ability to set the left and right padding, but does not list the ability to change the top/bottom padding. Sorry.

something like this Padding Left/Right setting, but for upper space between the text field and program window/tab bar.

And I don’t mean frame thickness (in settings).

Then your screenshot does not do a good job of indicating what you want to change. If this is in regards to your other recent post, see my answer there. If this is different, you are going to have to do a better job explaining what you want.

And remember, despite the title of this topic, Notepad++ is a Text Editor, not a Word Processor, and one should not expect to be able to assign different formatting to different paragraphs like you can in a Word Processor.

And I don’t mean frame thickness (in settings).
v8.4.8

I would like a larger, just a little bit larger, margin after the ‘Line Number’ column. It takes a little too long (for me) to place the cursor at the very beginning of a line.

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I came up with this workaround: If I activate/show the line numbers margin (under Settings > Editing) and change its colour to white (Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles > Line number margin > Foreground colour (white)), and finally choose a “blank” font on the same tab (Symbols), I get a completly white left margin.