Some tips and suggestions for using notepad4

[mimishy2000]

From my experience, Notepad4 is a compact yet powerful text editor. I previously used Notepad++ and also tried 'Notepad Next', 'Notepad --', and 'Notepad3', but Notepad4 has really appealed to me. As an IT administrator, I frequently edit text, often opening multiple, even a dozen, text windows. In this situation, I've found some shortcomings in Notepad4. If these features could be added or improved, it would be fantastic; I could completely abandon Notepad++ and switch to Notepad4.

1. Lack of tab functionality. The inability to maintain multiple text windows within the same instance hinders efficient text editing. Currently, each text window requires a separate instance, which is very cluttered and bloated, making interaction and switching between different windows extremely inefficient. This is something I find very disappointing.

2. The lack of columnar window display makes multi-window interaction, such as text comparison, very inconvenient.

3. The right-click functionality is very limited.

4. Does not support using multiple colors to mark a selected string in one place or globally.

5. Syntax highlighting supports fewer types.

[zufuliu]

Thanks, but it's not a goal to develop a Notepad++ alternative, that would require large amount of continuous work by me or others.

1. Lack of tab functionality.

Multi-tab is tracked by issue #165.

2. The lack of columnar window display makes multi-window interaction, such as text comparison, very inconvenient.

Muti-column is tracked by discussion #500.

5. Syntax highlighting supports fewer types.

Including everything lexilla supports will make the program much bigger, please fill separate issues for missing highlighting you want, or comment on existing 🎨lexer issues:
https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%F0%9F%8E%A8lexer

[meteorquake]

Yes I agree, light is beautiful. The non-tab feature is actually one of the reasons I like it - when I am working on a document and want to find something, I Ctrl-L and it instantly opens a new instance, I find what I want, then close it (or keep it open a bit) and I'm back to where I was without even the find settings changed. I also tend to keep one open in Read-Only mode to flip to with the background scheme changed to visually indicate its purpose, and on closing the settings change is not committed.
The main thing I'd love to see is a search box of some kind to find commands so I don't have to hunt around the menus.

[zufuliu]

The main thing I'd love to see is a search box of some kind to find commands so I don't have to hunt around the menus.

I think that's issue #964 (I renamed the title to "Command Palette").