Documentation

A quick reference for everything you’ll reach for. The full reference lives in the repository as Markdown; a browsable docs site will follow here.

Full reference

Every setting, shortcut, status bar action and behaviour note.

Installing on Windows

Installer tasks, MSI features, silent install, SmartScreen and uninstalling.

Changelog

Curated release notes for every version.

Linux port

What works, what is next and how to test.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl+N` / `Ctrl+Shift+N`	New / New Window (swappable in Preferences)
`Ctrl+O` `Ctrl+S` `Ctrl+Shift+S`	Open / Save / Save As
`Ctrl+P` / `Ctrl+Shift+P`	Print / Print Preview
`Ctrl+W` / `Ctrl+Shift+W`	Close this window / Close all windows (each save-checked)
`Ctrl+Z` / `Ctrl+Y`	Undo / Redo (100,000-step history)
`Ctrl+F` `F3` `Shift+F3` `Ctrl+H`	Find / Find Next / Find Previous / Replace
`Ctrl+G`	Go To Line
`F5`	Insert time and date
`Alt+Z`	Toggle word wrap
`Ctrl+M`	Toggle monospace for this window
`Ctrl+E`	Cycle line endings (CRLF, LF, CR)
`Ctrl+Plus` `Ctrl+Minus` `Ctrl+0`	Zoom in / out / reset (Ctrl+Scroll also zooms)
`Ctrl+,`	Preferences
`Tab` / `Shift+Tab`	Indent / unindent (Markdown tools on)

Status bar

Segment	Shows	Click to
Message	Transient messages, and optional word / character / line counts	-
Ln, Col	Caret position	Open Go To Line
Zoom	This window’s zoom	Reset to 100%
Mono / Prop	This window’s font type	Toggle monospace
Line ending	Windows (CRLF), Unix (LF) or Mac (CR)	Pick a line ending (converts on save)
Encoding	UTF-8, UTF-8 BOM, UTF-16 LE/BE or ANSI	Pick an encoding (applies on save)

Command line

npad [options] [filename]
  -h, --help      Show help
  -v, --version   Show version

With npad on your PATH (the default in the installers), npad notes.txt works from any terminal. Typing npad in a File Explorer address bar opens an Open dialog in that folder.

Where things live

What	Windows	Linux
Settings	`%APPDATA%\Platima\npad\settings.json`	`~/.config/npad/settings.json` (`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/npad/` when set)
Crash-recovery snapshots	`%APPDATA%\Platima\npad\recovery\`	`~/.config/npad/recovery/` (`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/npad/` when set)

Preferences (Ctrl+,) has tabs for General, Appearance, Defaults, Markdown, Backup, Updates and Associations. Backup exports and imports your settings.

A docs site is coming. The Markdown files on GitHub are the source of truth today; this page will grow into a full docs section at npad.dev/docs.