@Bilbo47 said in Notepad++ 7.8 Release:
“3. Add “No to all” and “Yes to all” options in Save dialog.”
Regression: The Yes/No/Cancel buttons used to have hotkeys so that single keystrokes could give a command on how to proceed. In 7.8, “Y” and “N” are ignored, while “Escape” still works. This is a showstopper for me; back to 7.7 for that basic usability feature. Also for standard usability, the new “All” buttons need to have their own hotkeys.
It appears the new “X to all” buttons are available only after the “Close All” command; in case of the “Close” command, they are greyed out. User interface principles say that buttons that are never available in certain circumstances should not even be visible in those circumstances. If “Close” and “Close All” are going to be two separate commands, then the corresponding dialog functionality/discoverability should also be different. If “X to all” is going to be not-available after “Close” then the “All” buttons should be not-visible after “Close”. Or, if “X to all” is going to be available after “Close” then “Close All” should not be a separate command. In short, the decision of all-versus-one should be made only once, or should be made available as often as possible. But showing that different functionality is available only if User backs up and starts over, that’s just maddening.
From experience, custom buttons can be added to the Windows-standard Common Dialogs instead of writing custom dialogs; it just takes some more subclassing and API work to do so.
Agree with Bilbo47. Need the keyboard hotkeys back on the save and close dialogs. I did not realize how frequently I used them until now.
LOVE having the options of Yes to All (which I believe the standard hotkey on that is A) and No to All, though! Was very excited to see that when I am closing a large number of files that I do NOT wish to save, I no longer have to hold down the “N” key until they all close!
Thanks!!!
