Don HO

@alankilborn Why not? There is "Column Mode" command in Edit menu which displays the instruction (how to). We might regroup/organization/restructure all these elements in order to provide a complete solution?

@pryrt @alankilborn Thank you for your thought. Let's take Solution 3 which is also the original proposal of @alankilborn. And Column Mode Tip dialog message will be change from: ```...

> I don't think we should say "shit" to the user in your number 3. > Number 2 would be a better place to say that (total joke, hopefully you...

> @donho, Probably easiest to combine #12832 and #12833 into a single PR -- acceptable? Sure - it makes sense to me.

@alankilborn Your new proposal is logic and understandable from the devs' view (or from the view of ppl who do know well about Scintilla component). However a newbie of Notepad++...

@alankilborn > The keycombos should NOT be embedded into this text (the "Column mode tip text") because these are just default/suggested keycombos, and can be changed by the user. Hmm......

@white-gthb It's not a regression to me. If you want to open such unconventional file, use Win32 Namespace prefixed file name: `Notepad++ \\?\c:\test\test.`

@white-gthb > In Notepad++ you use that too if you create a new file (Ctrl+N) and then save it to a filename without filename extension. I cannot reproduce that. Could...

A code/text editor should ALWAYS show these non-printable characters, shouldn't it? In this way, no ambiguity (no hidden characters which prevent source code from being compiled or interpreted) and always...

The duplication in list when auto-completion of word & function is enabled is not a bug to me. That's why they have the icons (or no) in front to tell...