The View menu has a rich set of options to collapse and uncollapse your code.

We've experimented with the small icons but find they really have little advantage over the standard icons.

There is no easy way to toggle the icons on and off, so you might want to wait until you have all the shortcuts you need. If you create shortcuts for the toolbar icons (also on the menu above), you can turn the toolbar off (Settings / Preferences / General tab / Toolbar box / Hide). Notepad++ shows the whole main menu, for a single use, with a tap of the Alt key.

Like most apps, Alt+F shows the File menu, for example, even if the main menu is not showing. Why? Because tapping the Alt key returns the menu for a single use. How? Settings/Preferences/General tab, 'Hide' box. Unlike many applications, where you can only lose the menu once you know the app, you can do this right from day one. The easiest way to gain vertical space is to turn the menu off. (A little '+' up at the top-right reminds you that another F12 will return to normal.) Killing the Menu It also eats the whole screen.į12 toggles a special 'Post-It' mode that doesn't add width but it gives you every vertical pixel for the file you are editing. It eliminates all but the tabs at the top, giving you as many vertical lines as possible. F11, F12Īs it does in most browsers, F11 toggles full-screen, maximized mode. Use Settings / Style Configurator to choose your smallest comfortable font size. Ctrl-'mouse wheel' is supposed to do this too, but we don't find that very convenient. Like browsers, Ctrl-'+' and Ctrl-'-' increase / decrease your font size. Programmer's editor Notepad++ can help, but it produces no miracles. But we still don't have enough vertical lines. One-by-one the old constraints are turning into free (or nearly free) goods: CPU cycles, disk space, even network transmission.

Notepad++ font size too small