(Checkbox states will be referred to as checked for ☑, unchecked for ☐, and disabled when it’s greyed out so that you cannot toggle the state of the checkbox, and enabled if the grey has been removed.) General For options where the opposite behavior might not be obvious, it may also explicitly describe what the unchecked behavior is. Preferencesįor the descriptions below, if it’s a checkbox ☐, the description applies if the checkbox is checked.

While there are various aspects in Notepad++ that are not configurable, you may not even notice them.įor settings not covered by the three main dialogs, there are other toggles and settings which can be found in various dialogs, menus, and configuration files.Īs noted in the Configuration Files documentation, Notepad++ writes the configuration files when it exits, which means that, when you make a change using Notepad++ menus and dialogs described below, your change will not be written to the configuration file until Notepad++ exits. The Preferences dialog manages most other user-settings. Styler Configurator allows changing the visual appearance of anything that has a color or a font. The Shortcut Mapper is a list of keyboard shortcuts to everything that can have one in Notepad++. There are three main dialogs for editing preferences and other user-defined settings: Preferences, Style Configurator and Shortcut Mapper.

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