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Side panels

Panels dock to the left, right or bottom of the documents. Several panels on one side become tabs. Open panels come back on the next start.

Panel Where What it does
Document List View The open documents with their paths. Click to show one, middle-click to close it, click a heading to sort.
Function List View The document’s classes, functions, methods and sections as a tree, for 28 languages including Markdown headings. Follows edits, highlights the definition the caret is in, filters and sorts.
Document Map View The whole document in miniature in its syntax colors, the visible part framed. Click or drag to scroll.
Folder as Workspace File → Open Folder as Workspace… Folders as trees, kept current as files come and go. Double-click opens a file. Its menu copies paths, runs Find in Files in a folder, opens the file manager or a terminal.
Project 1–3 View → Project Projects of folders and files in Notepad++’s .workspace files, so a project opens in both editors. Saved as soon as they change.
Clipboard History Edit Texts copied in Birchpad and other programs, newest first. Double-click to paste.
Character Panel Edit The 256 values of the document’s code page with their characters and HTML entities. Double-click to insert.
Search results F7 See Find and replace.

A folder dropped on the window or given on the command line opens as a workspace too.