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- The recommended settings below are for using Notepad++ as just a better version of Notepad (i.e. for keeping notes), and not as a code editor.
Windows settings
- Set all .txt files to open with Notepad++ by default.
- Right-click a .txt file, select "Open with...", then select Notepad++, and select the checkbox that says "Always use this program".
- Change Notepad++'s file icon to the default Notepad one, because the Notepad++ file icon is too colorful / busy.
- Change the font to Calibri (what Word uses) or Consolas (what Notepad uses)
- Hide autocomplete suggestions: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22635911/4115031
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Settings → Preferences → General
- Select 'Hide menu bar'.
- Press 'Alt' to have it show up when you need it.
- Deselect 'Show status bar'.
- Toolbar:
- Enable the 'Hide' checkbox.
- Tab bar:
- Deselect 'Draw a coloured bar on active tab'
Settings → Preferences
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→ Editing
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- Enable multi-editing
- Set 'Line Wrap' to 'Indent'
- Disable 'Display line number'
- Disable 'Display bookmark'
- Disable 'Enable current line highlighting'.
- Set 'Border Width' to 'No edge'
- Set 'Folder Margin Style' to 'None'Disable 'Enable current line highlighting'
Settings → Preferences → Auto-Completion
- Change the "Enable auto-completion on each input" child option to "Function completion" from "Function and word completion".
Settings → Style Configurator
- Change the font to Calibri (what Word uses) or Consolas (what Notepad uses) or Source Code Pro (what I use in PyCharm, which I think was the one Naveed told me to change it to).
- The benefit of using Source Code Pro is that it's monospace, which is helpful when working on coding projects.
Find
- Enable "Wrap around" so that it will search the entire document and not just the portion of the document that comes after where your cursor is located.
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