How to remove to separation lines in the menu?

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Michael Vincent

@lifehack-nerd said in How to remove to separation lines in the menu?:

How do you avoid this kind of thing happened?
If you have a idea, will you annouce to everybody or trend to just start it?

I took the time at one point to read through all the plugins and understand what they do (at least according to their documentation or README). Then I installed the ones I wanted, tested and either kept or removed.

There are “repeats”, for example - ctags-based code navigation plugins:

all of which did 80% of what I wanted, but not necessarily an overlapping 80% and there were still some missing features. So I forked one and added to it and made my “own” which folks here know about and I provide a pre-release on GitHub, but do not push to the actual Plugin Admin so it won’t collide with the original author’s version.

If there’s something I want that I don’t think exists and I can’t find a way to automate it through a scripting plugin I use (NppExec and PythonScript), I’ll ask here “Help Wanted” category. If I don’t find something suitable, I’d try an announcement / request for comments here in the “Plugin Development” category.

But ultimately, it’s open source so there is no right or wrong way and if you “duplicate” something someone else has already done, the “market” (i.e., users) will determine what they like best. And there is no harm in developing a plugin that only you yourself use.

Happy coding!

Cheers.

lifehack nerd

@michael-vincent said in How to remove to separation lines in the menu?:

all of which did 80% of what I wanted, but not necessarily an overlapping 80% and there were still some missing features. So I forked one and added to it and made my “own” which folks here know about and I provide a pre-release on GitHub, but do not push to the actual Plugin Admin so it won’t collide with the original author’s version.

Emm,it’s a very logical method.
Could I know are you a big fan of Notepad++, because you know much things about it and always online. And what driver you to be a contributor of it?
For me, to be honest, I am just a light user though have been using it for years. Maybe this is a bad habit that I didn’t experience things deeply and always want to make something “innovative” to it and finally find that it had been done by others long time ago. Seems it keep happenning. HAHA.

Michael Vincent

@lifehack-nerd said in How to remove to separation lines in the menu?:

Could I know are you a big fan of Notepad++, because you know much things about it and always online. And what driver you to be a contributor of it?

I just used Windows Notepad back in the day because coding was not primary to my job. The more I did coding (for network automation), the more I saw others with IDE’s and how they helped workflow. But I never coded in a single language so a full blown IDE for a given language wouldn’t work nor would an IDE per language - no consistency.

I discovered Notepad++ did all the text editor things an IDE could do and with plugins, I could actually get some IDE-like/lite features that were enough for me to supplement my workflow for the little coding I did do (e.g., Perl, Python, Batch, Bash, and text files like JSON, XML, CSV and log files). Mind you, this was yonks ago, before VS-Code was around and everyone seemed to migrate to that from Atom or Sublime - all of which I’ve tried, but I keep coming back to Notepad++.

Again, I’m not a software developer and my skills (or lack thereof) are self-taught and Google’d so I contribute how I can - answer questions here, testing new builds, dabbling and plugins and contributing a pull request here and there when it’s easy enough for me to implement.

Cheers.

lifehack nerd

@michael-vincent Yeah, thank you very much for sharing your story. I also experienced sublime and ultraeditor before and then come back to Notepad++. It’s neat and very light-weight to run.

Cheers.