It might be better if a 'newbie' mode would be provided, only showing the most common menu items and a more effective selection of toolbar buttons?

Notepad++ is a great editor with excellent syntax highlighting, bracket highlighting and syntax completion. This all makes life much easier. The many menu items could make some features a bit less effective for new users. Some additional common features probably should have a toolbar button. For instance, the dual subwindow feature I only discovered after years of use. I still tend to have troubles quickly locating tab indention options and the wordwrap option and I haven't found toolbar buttons for quick code folding expansion/collapsing and for easy indentation changes.