@Jonni-Dillon

Should notepad++ not be responding with a message other than “Please check if the file is open in another program” though?

yes, and it will, if you go to settings > preferences > default directory and activate use new style dialog as seen at the screenshot below:

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after you have selected use new style dialog and restarted notepad++, it will behave the following way:

note: the use new style dialog is the prefered open/save dialogue setting if you are using a mac/linux/windows mixed environment, like i do.

@PeterJones said:

Like @Terry-R says, he does enable periodic backup

I actually do separate backups on critical files. So whenever the ‘floppy disk’ icon lights up in the top menu I will save (shortly thereafter) any critical file. I also have the 2 options ticked so that for ALL other files (generally scratch or test files) I leave it up to NPP to handle the edits (backups) for me.

You are right about crashes, we have seen a lot of postings in this forum where the poster left it ENTIRELY to NPP to handle backups, only to find at some critical moment it failed them. Not necessarily NPP’s fault, it can be attributed to lots of sources, many external to NPP.

And the statement about not trusting critical data integrity to any one software is a good idea. When it’s critical one needs to take care of business themselves, rather than leave it to automated systems. 99.9% of the time it’s all good, however ‘Murphy’s Law’ states when you don’t want it to happen it will!

Terry

@murathp

This does not address your issue, but a suggestion for you might be to give the Navigate To plugin a try. Again, not to do with the potential problem you raised, but maybe an alternative to your workflow to consider.

@Michelle-Jensen ,

Welcome to the forum.

The default viewer/editor is a windows feature: if you click the WINDOWS start button, then type Default app, you can select “choose a default app for each type of file”, and fix the association for HTML and CSS filetypes.

To see how the local HTML renders in your browser while editing in Notepad++, you can see my first post in the “latest Version: Browser Export” thread for how to edit shortcuts.xml. This will bring back the Run menu entries for Launch in Firefox, Launch in Chrome, etc.

Yes, that did it, many thanks

@PeterJones

Wow, Peter…perfect reply. Well, at least until you continued with the “As a consolation prize…” and further on. :)

@andrecool-68

I guess I have two left hands?!

not at all.
you are solving many things, including other people’s problems.
i would rather guess that i have two left hands, because i was not able to be of help on that issue.

There isn’t a builtin way (ie, you cannot just re-run notepad++.exe with a command-line option to close a specific file). If you know of a way to send Windows API messages from the DOS batch file and/or command prompt, then you could possibly send a message to the appropriate component to close that file inside Notepad++. But any such way that I could imagine would require a fairly strong knowledge of the Windows API and messaging system, and probably knowing a programming language beyond batch file (probably via powershell script, and I’m quite sure through VBScript, Python, Perl, Lua, or any number of other full-featured programming languages).

Purely inside vanilla Notepad++, there isn’t a way to set a auto-close-based-on-inactive-time. Using the PythonScript plugin (or LuaScript plugin), which combines the power of the Python (or Lua, respectively) programming language with direct access to the Notepad++ GUI and editor (scintilla) components, you might be able to create a script using callbacks (described in the PythonScript documentation), plus Python timer-based actions, to take care of that; but it’d be a complicated

@Long-Lăng-Hoàng , welcome to the Forum (at least for your first post),

This community forum is a great place for discussing problems, and asking how to do something, or asking what you’re doing wrong to get a strange behavior, or for finding workarounds to bugs and other issues that aren’t going to be “fixed”/changed.

But if you want a bug fixed in the actual Notepad++ codebase, then this FAQ explains where the best place is to submit such requests. When you do submit an issue as described there, make sure you include screenshots of the “good” rendering and the “bad” rendering. Also, posting a link to the issue here in this topic would be nice, so others can see the progress of your issue.

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