Feature Request : option to disable auto expand of folders

Hyung-jun Chang

Folder function is very very neat for me cuz i put everything down in a several txt files. I don’t like opening and closing a lot of different txt files. It gets messy and txt files often get neglected and forgotten. I can open a few txt files and just add folders to it to organize all kinds of info, so that I don’t have to deal with too many files and yet still can have access to stuff without having to use search function or endless scrolling.

That being said, it is kinda awkward when I’m moving around folders, because they tend to auto expand and I have to scroll way back up to close them. Or I have to constantly use “Fold level” hotkey and it also gets frustrating. I really don’t see how people would prefer auto expanding behavior but even if I’m in the minority, I’d like to be offered an option, please :( …

And if I can inconvince you more, it’d be even nicer if I can collape folders from the bottom as well. As of right now, collapse button(“-”) is only at the top left side. Thank you very much for this amazing application anyway. Cheers.

PeterJones

@Hyung-jun-Chang said in Feature Request : option to disable auto expand of folders:

Folder function

Which “folder function” do you mean?

Because the View > Folder as Workspace, which is what I originally thought you meant, doesn’t use - for collapse – it uses 〉 for exapand and ﹀ for collapse:

And the “code folding”, like

… which does use - as the collapse button, but it doesn’t fold on .txt files. But since you mention the “Fold level” hotkey, that does imply that you are using code folding.

But you need to be more specific. Maybe showing a screenshot, to make sure we understand…

(further, as our FAQ section explains, we can talk about ideas for Feature Requests here, but this is just the Community of Notepad++ users, so no ideas will be implemented here; an official Feature Request would have to be made.)

Hyung-jun Chang

@PeterJones
yeah I was talking about the second one. to make giant txt files while also having some sort of structure within them. as for posting this on wrong place, I apologize and will go to github.