Suggestion for the "Selection" and "Convert" panels

[hpwamr]

Edited: When there is NO selection, I suggest that ALL lines in the Selection panel (7 l.) and the Convert panel (1 l.) be grayed out. 🤔

[np3fan]

Note that having no text selected does not mean there's no selection; instead it means the selection is zero characters long.

We have to be careful here. Graying out the panels means that functionality would be lost. Examples: Even without text selected the Enclose Selection commands (ctrl 1 through 6) are convenient: they quickly add brackets in advance of typing between them e.g. ctrl-3 gives (|) Most of the Selection commands actually operate on the line and not the selection e.g. Line Comment, the Pad/Strip/Compress commands, Modify/Align/Sort Lines commands. They are almost all useful even with no text being selected, and so shouldn't be grayed out.

Frankly having a menu item named "Selection" is questionable. The entries currently in Selection should all be moved out, to either the Lines or Convert submenus. And then Lines and Convert should become top-level menus next to the Edit menu. Much of Notepad3's functionality is hidden in submenus while rarely used commands, such as Appearance, are strangely top-level. (In my humble opinion all the menus and commands could be better organized.)