How do I turn folding OFF?
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How do I turn folding OFFF in v8.6.9?
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@SteveRMann said in How do I turn folding OFF?:
How do I turn folding OFFF in v8.6.9?
Good question, thanks!
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@SteveRMann said in How do I turn folding OFF?:
How do I turn folding OFFF in v8.6.9?
It depends on what you mean by “OFF”.
If you mean that you have text that is folded, and you want to unfold it:
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… then you click the unfold symbol (in my screenshot, the red+-in-a-box, though the symbol may be different depending on Settings > Preferences > Margins/Borders/Edge > Fold Margin Style choice). Or you can use the various folding commands in the View menu, like View > Unfold Current Level to unfold the folded text where your caret (the typing cursor) was last placed, or View > Unfold All if you want to make sure everything is not folded – see the User Manual section on Folding for details of all those folding-related commands.If you mean that you don’t want that column which shows the folding symbols, so you won’t accidentally click-to-fold, then Settings > Preferences > Margins/Borders/Edge > Fold Margin Style =
Noneis what you want:
But you cannot actually completely turn “off” the feature, because the View-menu’s folding commands still work even if you hide the column. But that’s not really an important distinction, because Notepad++ will never fold text unless you tell it to, so if you don’t like folded text, then just don’t tell it to fold that section of text – and whether the folding-column is displayed or not, unless you tell Notepad++ to fold some of the text, it won’t automatically hide it.
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@PeterJones said in How do I turn folding OFF?:
If you mean that you don’t want that column which shows the folding symbols, so you won’t accidentally click-to-fold, then Settings > Preferences > Margins/Borders/Edge > Fold Margin Style = None is what you want:
Thanks for the quick reply- This is exactly what I was looking for.
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@SteveRMann You likely will also want to disable the keyboard shortcuts related to folding so that you can’t accidentally fumble-finger-fold something. They still work when the folding thing is no longer visible in the left margin. You will see a horizontal line that marks the folded area.
In the shortcut mapper you filter for the word
foldand will see a bunch of shortcuts in the Main menu tab in the section for the View menu.
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