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    • Evgeny Morozov
      Evgeny Morozov last edited by

      I switched off the numeration of lines and margin and grey border of N++ window.

      Now I get this layout:
      f5834744-255a-4d1a-b39c-fcdec427e475-image.png

      The problem is text is too close to window border:

      I want to add 1 mm gap like a standard Notepad app in Windows do:
      d0efcb21-a46d-4c46-8e02-a13efe96876d-image.png

      Please explain, how to add 1 mm gap?

      I do not want to turn on margin at all:
      42ee560c-d0a8-4c6b-9b55-fd98fff05101-image.png

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      • Nick Brown
        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 Morozov
          Evgeny Morozov @Nick Brown last edited by

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          • Evgeny Morozov
            Evgeny Morozov @Nick Brown last edited by

            @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 Kilborn
              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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              • TroshinDV
                TroshinDV @Nick Brown last edited by

                @Nick-Brown Screenshot_241.png

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                • Alan Kilborn
                  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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                  • Ekopalypse
                    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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                    • ArkadiuszMichalski
                      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 Kilborn
                        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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                        • Ekopalypse
                          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 Kilborn
                            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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                            • Ekopalypse
                              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 Morozov
                                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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                                • Ekopalypse
                                  Ekopalypse @Evgeny Morozov last edited by

                                  @Evgeny-Morozov

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

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                                  • Evgeny Morozov
                                    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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                                    • Ekopalypse
                                      Ekopalypse @Evgeny Morozov last edited by

                                      @Evgeny-Morozov

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

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                                      • Evgeny Morozov
                                        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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                                        • Ekopalypse
                                          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 Prahlad
                                            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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