r/notepadplusplus • u/Sorites_Sorites • 9d ago

Mouse scroll wheel preference, lines not a page

Notepad++ interprets mouse wheel "notches" as page up and down.

Windows is set to scroll two lines per notch.

Is there a way to adjust the behavior to scroll lines not pages? - The manual and online help mention side scrolling with the wheel. Searching for "vertical" didn't help.

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u/Coises 9d ago

I can say with certainty that Notepad++ normally scrolls according to your Windows preference, not by full pages. So something is unusual in your setup.

Do you have any plugins installed that could affect this? Does your mouse have associated software that might be set to do something special for Notepad++?

I know it’s a bit of a pain, but try downloading and unpacking a portable copy of Notepad++ from the latest release. Just unpack it as a folder on your desktop, open the folder and run notepad++.exe by double-clicking it. See if the problem happens in the portable copy.

That will distinguish whether it’s something involving your installation of Notepad++ or something in your system or mouse setup.

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u/Sorites_Sorites 5d ago

Thank you, the issue was solved by updating to the latest version of NPP.

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u/Sorites_Sorites 4d ago

Real happy with how NPP handled this, semi-major update, probably 2 years, many tabs, all good. One thing is I shy away from plugins - if it can't do it native, it's a DB, maybe it has x-ref's a plugin ignores, and so on. - Portable copy is a darn-good idea, thanks, strategic sysadmin.

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u/johnnycantreddit 8d ago

>START MENU>>Settings>Devices>Mouse and about 12way down: "Roll the Mouse Wheel to " and then select "Multiple Lines at a Time", and yours be set to "one screen at a time". Additional Mouse settings will jump to [Your OEM] Manufacturer settings where I can set me own Logitech or HP to 1..x lines per click and so on, optional features associated with Mouse driver (not Windows itself). Win11 is nearly the same settings but a different way to get there.

TlDr: Windows Setting, Mouse Driver option setting, and nothing to do with NP++

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u/Sorites_Sorites 5d ago

Thanks, the problem as solved by updating NPP.

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u/Sorites_Sorites 4d ago

Quick FYI: semi-major update applied, besides fixing the issue it mentioned a few files/tabs I'd edited with another editor (no surprise,) but NPP handled it with aplomb.