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*`☐ circle tree`: shows a `⊖` with a line to the end of the section if that section is not folded, or a `⊕` if it is folded
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*`☐ box tree`: shows a `⊟` with a line to the end of the section if that section is not folded, or a `⊞` if it is folded
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***Vertical Edge Settings**
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*`☐ Show vertical edge`: shows a vertical edge at the specified location, often used to indicate the right margin for manually setting the number of characters per line
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*`☐ Line mode`: the vertical edge is indicated by a solid vertical line, styled with the **Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles > Edge Color: Forground colour**
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*`☐ Background mode`: the vertical edge is indicated by styling the _background_ of the text to the right of the edge with the colour from **Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles > Edge Color: Forground colour**
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* This will allow one or more vertical edges to be displayed while editing your file, to help with line lengths or positioning text. This edge indicator can either be a vertical line, or a background shading beyond the edge. The colour of the line or background shading will be taken from **Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles > Edge Color: Forground colour**.
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* Multiple Vertical Edges: There is one box, which accepts zero or more numbers (as of v7.8.6):
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* If the box is empty, there are no vertical edges.
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* If there is one number ℕ in the box, there will be one vertical edge, after the column for the ℕth character.
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* If there is more than one number (separated by whitespace), then there will be a vertical edge at each of the given character columns.
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*`☐ Background mode`: the vertical edge is usually a vertical line; if this option is enabled, the vertical edge will be indicated by styling the _background_ of the text to the right of the edge.
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* Single Vertical Edge: in older versions of Notepad++, there was only a single vertical edge available, with more toggled options (v7.8.5 and earlier):
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*`☐ Show vertical edge`: shows a vertical edge at the specified location, often used to indicate the right margin for manually setting the number of characters per line
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*`☐ Line mode`: the vertical edge is indicated by a solid vertical line
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*`☐ Background mode`: the vertical edge is indicated by styling the _background_ of the text to the right of the edge
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*`Number of columns: __ `: sets where the vertical edge will be, in numbers of columns (characters) from the left edge of the page
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*`☐ Multi-line mode`: Instead of one vertical line at a single column, it allows for multiple veritcal lines. (added v7.8.6)
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* The box underneath contains a space-separated list of column numbers. If it is set to `10 40 60`, there will be vertical lines after character position 10, 40, and 60.
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***Border Width**
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*[number-slider]: sets the width (in pixels) of the border around each view's text editor; technically, it's the gap between the light and dark portions of the sunken border, so a width of 0 will still have the light and dark lines for the sunken edge
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*`☐ No edge`: will remove the entire border, including the light and dark bars, so it no longer appears sunken
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