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IDEA: Notepad that remembers the font (and other settings) used per file

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tmpusr:
I solved the need for comments for downloads by appending them to the filenames sometimes in all caps to stand out clearly and putting them into descriptively named folders - essentially with multiple tags, at least one of which I might remember, and prefixing the important ones with something like ###. Consequently some of the names are Long, and I sometimes hit NTFS paths limits, which is why I've been looking into some other file systems like ZFS which I hope http://dokan-dev.net/en/ or http://www.fs-driver.org/ would some day support.

MilesAhead:
Basically what I wanted was a way to just copy & paste the website capsule description. At the end, I got it to work fairly well, considering the limitations.  But, I implemented it as 32 bit shell extensions.  As soon as it's finalized, 64 bit comes along and obsoletes it.  I coded it more to learn how to do the extensions rather than to get the actual utility. Probably why it wasn't popular. :)

Of course the weakness of the Tooltip popup is, you don't remember which ones have comments, so you hover the mouse waiting for something to happen. It's a flawed design.

btw on the remembering last line caret position, it occurs to me you might want to look at some of the Scite based editors.  Seems to me either or both of Scite4AutoIt3 or Scite4ahk remembers the position in the file when you go back.  Could be only for the last file edited though. I'm not sure.

tmpusr:
Scite looks like a good notepad replacement.

SleepingWolf:
Or you could do it the way I suggested in:

IDEA: Universal restore last position in any text when opened https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23902.0

append the font parameters to the file name or save them in a separate file in the same folder. Or even simpler: use the first or last line if it exists. If you use more than one notepad, you have to customize the key commands needed to change the font per app.

-tmpusr (September 11, 2010, 09:38 PM)
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You could (in later Windows versions at least) use ADS (Alternate Data Streams) but this may end up setting off warning bells in some security products.

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