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    • Alan Kilborn
      Alan Kilborn @PeterJones last edited by

      @PeterJones

      Maybe the blue box on the left should have been changed to say Auto-... things

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      • PeterJones
        PeterJones @Alan Kilborn last edited by

        @Alan-Kilborn ,

        @PeterJones

        Maybe the blue box on the left should have been changed to say Auto-... things

        Hehe. Probably not going to happen (and not the most user-friendly phrasing, either).

        For now, I’m working on an PR for the documentation. (It’s hard to keep documentation up-to-date when no one notifies the documentation team that a dialog has changed. sigh I’m going through the other preference screens, to make sure they didn’t sneak anything else in.)

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        • Alan Kilborn
          Alan Kilborn @PeterJones last edited by

          @PeterJones said in Autoindent missing?:

          and not the most user-friendly phrasing, either)

          :-(

          Well, I implemented it for me and only me:

          e964ff7b-f078-4512-846b-63cf7ecf6fd3-image.png

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          • PeterJones
            PeterJones @Alan Kilborn last edited by PeterJones

            @Alan-Kilborn said in Autoindent missing?:

            @PeterJones said in Autoindent missing?:

            and not the most user-friendly phrasing, either)

            :-(

            Okay, maybe my phrasing wasn’t the nicest. Sorry. I think for non-native speakers, that isn’t the most clear. It’s more confusing to have it as it currently is, with Auto-indent settings on the Auto-completion page, but so it goes.

            Well, I implemented it for me and only me:

            :-)

            @PeterJones said in Autoindent missing?:

            I’m working on an PR for the documentation

            submitted PR#77: Should be in the master with a week (depending on how long it takes to be reviewed). It will be in the next release of GitHub->website that Don makes after that (probably within a week of the next Notepad++ release – at least, that seems to be his documentation-release cycle… which means, I really need to get better at checking for potential documentation changes immediately after the RC1 and/or final version release)

            [edits] rephrased and re-paragraphed a couple times. I wish the preview window were could be made wider, not just taller… [/edits]

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            • PeterJones
              PeterJones @PeterJones last edited by

              @PeterJones said in Autoindent missing?:

              that didn’t give a “why”, just an “it happened”.

              After more research, while doing the PR#77, I at least saw that in v7.8.1, the SQL backslash option was moved to the Languages section, and the Monospaced Find font option was added to MISC; similarly, in v7.8.3, the Auto-indent setting was moved from MISC to Auto-completion section, and the Don’t Fill Find Field option was added to the MISC settings. This leads me to conclude that there was no more physical space for options on the MISC section, so they were moved to the “next best” location. (I think the SQL-backslash goes well in the Languages page; the Auto-indent might go better on General or Editing, but both of those look full, too.)

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                • Alan Kilborn
                  Alan Kilborn last edited by Alan Kilborn

                  @PeterJones and others:

                  Regardless of where things are, the NppMenuSearch plugin reveals all.

                  • Example when searching with it for “auto”:

                  287568ef-0afc-4457-b25d-7676bae7c19f-image.png

                  • Example when looking for “indent”:

                  722f4418-9d22-4696-aec9-94dfc56bb834-image.png

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                  • guy038
                    guy038 last edited by guy038

                    Hello, @jane-whittaker, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All,

                    Regarding the absence of the Auto-indent option in the Settings > Preferences.. > MISC menu, I suppose it’s because of the addition of the option Don't fill find field in Find dialog with selected word and of the resulting lack of space, in this dialog !


                    Now, I do think that the addition of the Auto-indent option, in the Settings > Preferences.. > Auto-Completion menu, is justified, although I admit that the name of the heading should be modified !

                    Indeed, what are the common characteristics of the Auto-Indent, Auto-Completion and Auto-Insert mechanisms ? Well, in each of them, N++ automatically inserts character(s)/word(s) in your active document !

                    Rigorously, these features could also be named :

                    • Blank Chars Completion ( instead of Auto-indent )

                    • Code/Word Completion ( instead of Auto-Completion )

                    • Delimiters completion ( instead of Auto-Insert )

                    Thus, the heading name should simply be renamed as Completion ( instead of Auto-Completion )

                    Since American/English is not my mother tongue, what is your feelings about it ?

                    Best Regards,

                    guy038

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                    • Alan Kilborn
                      Alan Kilborn last edited by Alan Kilborn

                      On the topic of some of the Preference areas becoming “too full”:

                      It sure seems like we are getting to the point where “Find” could be its own area in the Preferences:

                      • move “Used monospaced font in Find dialog” there
                      • move “Don’t fill find field in Find dialog with selected word” there
                      • possibly even move the “Smart Highlighting” items there as well, as they are somewhat find-related

                      If there were such a “Find” area, it would leave open the possibility for making “Find” even more pref-configurable!

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                      • Jane Whittaker
                        Jane Whittaker @PeterJones last edited by

                        @PeterJones
                        Many thanks for this!

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