@Andrew-Dunn Not a bad idea, it might be tough to find a unique-enough default color to be pleasing to all. There’s a red already in use for the Mark feature. Aside from selected text (medium-to-dark grey) and anything else in use that I’ve forgotten, here are the colors that Notepad++ already uses (plugins not considered!): http://imgur.com/a/IoRHu

@Claudia-Frank Yes. That way, I can work on the same file in multiple places in the file. Plus, I work most of the time on laptop, and that is why the size of the view point is important to me. I was for a wile opening the same file as “Open in new instance”, so I had a full windows view. But the problem with this approach is, that I can not edit both file at once. After I save a file in one instance, I lost changes I made in another instance of notepad++.

@Scott-Sumner no pressure, no pressure - I thought of a simple solution like import os search_string = 'HERE_YOUR_STRING' i = 0 for root, dirs, files in os.walk('C:\\WHAT_EVER_DIR\\'): # take care of double backslash like c:\\temp\\dir1\\ for file in files: fname, ext = os.path.splitext(file) if ext == '.xml': i+=1 full_path = os.path.join(root, file) with open(full_path) as f: s = f.read() s = s.replace(search_string, search_string + str(i)) with open(full_path, "w") as f: f.write(s) but now, maybe an windows api solution?? ;-)) Cheers Claudia

Thank you! That is what I need. I called “stupid” baceuse I have searched the Internet and I saw that many, many, many people wanted to disable that option. One of the main features of NPP is acctualy that: Open as much files as you can (by draging into interface) and process them simultaniously. Developers had had to consider all perspectives in the beginning. :) Anyway, I didn’t want to offence anyone and thank you for your help!

That’s a nice observation. And another point: Tabs from other windows are not displayed. So the window title should be “Window Tabs” instead of “Windows” and the command “Close window(s)” should be “Close tab(s)”. BR

@D-L in the meantime, instead of using the menu funtion to sava as copy, you could use a scripting language like lua script or python script to do it. Possible way to go? Cheers Claudia

@Maison-da-Silva understood, thx. Windows 10 has changed something. Most likely, haven’t much time to test win10 as I was already migrating to Linux. Cheers Claudia

Well, would you look at that - I had no idea that existed. Thanks! :D

you can run it on linux with wine : https://www.winehq.org/ BUT wine provide too lib to compile native on linux for win32 programs.

Hello, Антон Карманов, Not totally sure that is the definitive solution, but try to uncheck the Autodetect character encoding option, in Preferences > MISC. Best Regards, guy038