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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

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

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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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                                  • EkopalypseE
                                    Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                                    last edited by

                                    @Alan-Kilborn

                                    If we consider how often the answers are far off, I start to think that this is a Bot/AI someone is testing against the forum.

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                                    • Alan KilbornA
                                      Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                                      last edited by

                                      @Ekopalypse

                                      Yea, I think I suggested that same thing in a prior time I posted something like my last post in this thread. What I don’t understand is why we haven’t banned this “thing”.

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                                      • NikolaN
                                        Nikola
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi all!
                                        My first post on this forum, so sorry for my noob question. I really don’t get it if this question is solved? I wanted to try the trick with Pyton Script plugin but I would need step by step instructions since I’m no programmer.

                                        So basically I need exactly what the OP asked, ability to change how close is the text from the left border. I would be satisfied with space that I get when choosing Settings>Preferences>Margine/Border/Edge>Folder Margin Style if the border was only white not gray (dotted pattern).

                                        Not directly related but for the record if chose any other option for Folder Margin Style (Arrow, Circle tree, Box tree) the margin looks the same as in the picture bellow. Also border radius (which is not what I need) doesn’t work, if I change the number the radius stays the same, “No edge” option works fine. I’m on Windows10.

                                        Capture.JPG

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                                        • PeterJonesP
                                          PeterJones @Nikola
                                          last edited by PeterJones

                                          @Nikola ,

                                          if the border was only white not gray

                                          Settings > Style Configurator > Language: Global Styles > Style: Fold Margin, change the Background Colour to white (or whatever non-gray color you prefer)

                                          I wanted to try the trick with Pyton Script plugin but I would need step by step instructions

                                          1. Plugins > Plugins Admin: in the Available tab, enable ☑ Python Script and Install. Notepad++ should restart after installing the plugin
                                          2. Plugins > Python Script > Scripts: in the resulting sub-menu, Ctrl+Click on the Startup (user)
                                            (if you normal-click, it will run the script; ctrl+click will edit the script – you want to edit it)
                                          3. It will open a file in Notepad++. At the end of that file, add the lines
                                            editor1.setMarginLeft(30)
                                            editor2.setMarginLeft(30)
                                            
                                            and save that file.
                                          4. Plugins > Python Script > Configuration…. Change the Initialisation: drop-down to ATSTARTUP, and click OK
                                          5. Exit and restart Notepad++.

                                          This should set wider margins. If it’s too wide or too narrow, use a smaller or larger number than 30 (bigger number means wider)

                                          If it doesn’t work for you, show us your ? > Debug Info, and give us screenshots showing your edited startup.py open in Notepad++, and maybe with the Plugins > Python Script > Show Console showing, so we can see if there are any unexpected error messages

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