Thanks very much for your comments, Martin. I really appreciate the feedback. I've been tinkering with the notes panel. Made some important changes and fixed a nasty little bug. First, you can now hide the notes panel. There is new menu item under options; also, new commands SNP / CNP / TNP to Show / Clear / Toggle the notes panel, and a new reserved variable $NP which returns 1 if the notes panel is displayed, else 0. The "text-like" files listed in the notes panel are now taken from the current directory as shown on the command line. If you CD or CD/D to a different directory, the notes panel listing will be refreshed accordingly. As per your request, filenames without extensions are treated as text-like and thus displayed. The now-defunct bug was that, when scrolling through the files in the notes panel, QuickNotes was not just reading but also rewriting the files as it displayed them in the editing window. The result was that files not encoded in UTF-8 -- which includes XyWrite-formatted files and XPL programs -- were being mangled. Claude was abl! > Does QPL allow scripts to respond to user input in the way that my > directory-switching program does? Oh yes, that should be doable. There is an INPUT keyword that takes user input and assigns it to a variable. If you'd like to send me your XPL routine privately, I could mock up a QPL equivalent for you. > They scroll together nicely, but if you go to the end of the file, > then when you start typing the preview jumps back to the top of > the file. Sync'ed scrolling is imperfect, to be sure. It isn't high on my list of priorities just now, but I'll keep it in mind as a feature that needs attention. > When I click "Auto-hide menu bar" the script crashes. When I > restart it, the menu bar is hidden. I can reveal it by pressing > Alt and then clicking somewhere. or by pressing Alt twice. Crashes? That's bad. I haven't had any crashes here; I'm running Win 11. What version of Windows are you running? QN may not be 100% compatible with versions earlier than 10. I'll have Claude double-check the "Auto-hide menu bar" plumbing. > Do you have a nice desktop icon for Quicknotes, to use for a > shortcut? No, but it's on the punch list. I'm open to suggestions, certainly. Right now, if you start QN with python quicknotes.py, the Python icon is what appears on the taskbar. > The target in my shortcut ... opens Quicknotes and also a small > blank DOS window. I can reproduce that here. The way around it is to use Wengier Wu's start.exe. (If you don't hav it, it's in U2EXTRAS.ZIP, on the XyWWWeb page.) Change the target to "d:\path\start.exe /hid python.exe d:\path\quicknotes.py"; the /HID switch bypasses the command window. (Start.exe also gives QN a different icon.) > user-defined Markdown formatting This is a great idea. I'm not ready to take it on now, but will look into it in due course(!). Many thanks for your comments on Chapter 6 of the manual. I'll work them in on the next go-around. -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxxxx