If you use only one of Notepad++'s 2 frames (views) at a time, you use this hack:
- Make the splitter between the frames vertical (if horizontal, right-click on the splitter and select Rotate to Left).
- Right-click the tab of the file you wish to edit and select Clone to other view.
- Click the view you wish to make the minimap and do Ctrl + Mousewheel-down until the font size is as small as possible/desired.
- Check View > Synchronize Vertical Scrolling and optionally View > Synchronize Horizontal Scrolling.
Now scrolling either the "minimap" or normal view scrolls the other. Sadly, text selections are not replicated.
1http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/ – pelms – 2009-09-22T07:12:33.387