
These settings affect the behaviour and look of Scintilla, the edit component of Notepad++. Double click to close document - If checked, doubleclicking on a tab will close it.Enable close button on each tab - Checking this will add a close button on each tab.Draw the orange top bar - Checking this will draw a (by default) orange line on top of active tabs (see Settings, Styler Configurator).Draw the inactive tabs - If checked, inactive tabs will be drawn using a custom background color (see Settings, Styler Configurator).Lock - Checking this will disable the ability to sort documents by dragging the tabs around.Unchecking will cause it to use a larger font and larger icons. Reduce - If checked the tab bar will use the default font and icon size.Vertical - Checking this option will rotate the tab bar 90° counterclockwise and place it at the left side of the screen.Note that the active document will always be on the bottom row. Otherwise a pair of scroll arrow buttons will appear. Multi-Line - Checking this option will cause the tab bar to draw multiple rows of documents if they cannot all be ekraned in a single row.You can still open multiple documents but you have to switch using shortcuts rather that using the tab bar. Hide - Checking this option will hide the tab bar.Status bar: Show status bar - Check the option to show the status bar. Selecting an option, pressing escape or giving another window the focus will hide the menu again. To (temporarily) show the menu bar, press the Alt key or the F10 key to give the menu focus. Menu bar: Hide - If you check this option, the menu bar will automatically hide. This is also the only option that will show any tool bar icons registered by plugins. Small standard icons - These are the default built-in icons.This can be the built-in icon set or custom icons. Big icons - Notepad++ will use the large icon set for the toolbar.Small icons - Notepad++ will use the small icon set for the toolbar.The following choices show immediate results, but sometimes a restart is required to load the correct icons: Hide - Check the hide checkbox to completely hide the tool bar.

The various localization files are in the Localization subfolder of Notepad++'s install folder. If you click on one of these languages, all user interface elements are instantly translated into that language. This dropdown list shows all the languages which you can use for Notepad++ to speak your language. You can control the Tab Bar, the Tool Bar, the Status Bar and the menu from here, as well as the current. The general settings control the look of the main interface. The dialog consists of multiple tab which contain options that are relevant to some aspect of Notepad++ (for instance, the interface or backup options). You can configure many aspects of Notepad++ using the Preferences dialog.
