@AlainCh2 said in Replace Notepad++ as Default W10 editor. How to ?:

Activated in right click > Open With
Open with >Choose another App \ Browse to Program Files/Notepad++ 🙄

-That’s not enough … …crazy as it can be,

That always worked for me back when I was using Win10. And I just verified I had no difficulty in Win11 getting it to keep Notepad++ as an Open With for .ini files.

BUT now you have fixed it as > Edit with Notepad++,

If all you are looking for is the Edit with Notepad++ choice in the right-click menu, when you run the installer initially, assuming it prompted with the UAC prompt, your installation should have included the ShellExtension DLL C:\Program Files\Notepad++\contextMenu\NppShell.dll (assuming you installed newer than v8.5.1; older versions used a different name, and didn’t work with Win11). And it should have registered that DLL so that the Windows Explorer context menu includes that. If something went wrong with that registration, you could open a cmd.exe or PowerShell window in that contextMenu directory, probably using “as Admin” when open that window, and then follow the manual DLL registration instructions instructions from the user manual. (That page in the user manual has a lot of different tactics to get the Edit with Notepad++ or similar, including a registry entry that adds it as a verb to all files, so that you don’t have to do the OpenWith on each file type. But the Shell Extension DLL is really the preferred method, because it’s designed to do things the way Windows likes.)

With the modern Notepad++, that same DLL should work to get the right-click entry with either Win10 or Win11.

If you got it working using an alternate method (like the registry edit shown in the first post), great. This is just presenting an alternate method, and the way that Notepad++ intends you to get Edit with Notepad++ functionality.

A little “almost” missed update: WebEdit has been added to the nppPluginList and is available in Notepad++ v8.8.6. 🥳

Regardless, I still would like to add a few more small features to the plugin. I’m trying to make these available in the latest releases,* and if everything works fine, I’d like to eventually submit them to the nppPluginList with a new (and a last?) PR.

* To try it out, just overwrite the C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\WebEdit\WebEdit.dll file with the downloaded and unzipped one – but make a backup anyway. ;)

@PeterJones said in easy way to move a file tab in the open file list:

I am assuming you are talking about the sub-window/panel toggled using View > Document List

Ah, now the original question makes sense. I wasn’t familiar with that feature until now, so without the “>”, I figured that “View Document List” from the post and “open file list” from the title were both referring to the list of files that you see in the File menu, and that they hadn’t noticed that this list is different from the active set of tabs.

FWIW, I’m a bit surprised that you can’t reorder files from within the View > Document List feature via click-and-drag. I can understand why some people would prefer this vertical layout over the horizontal layout of the tabs; it’s certainly more intuitive than the layout that you get when you check the Vertical option in the Tab Bar section of Settings > Preferences, so perhaps there needs to be a “stacked” sub-option for this layout.