Force single Reload from command-line?

[Dev Null]

Hi All,

I’m wondering if there is any way to force notepad++ to reload a file from the command-line?

Note that I’m not looking for the -monitor arg; These are large logfiles updated continuously, so if I turn on the monitor function it basically locks up notepad++ with continuous updates. And I’m not looking for the gui command to Reload, because I want to use it from a script. I’d like to choose to reload a specific file, once, from the command-line. I don’t see an arg for it in the list from --help; just wondering if there’s a sneaky workaround or something I missed.

Thanks for any advice,

[PeterJones]

@Dev-Null ,

Notepad++ itself doesn’t have a command-line option to force reload of a file.

However, with the -pluginMessage command-line-argument, you could set up a script for the PythonScript plugin that could handle that (search the forum for some of the recent posts on -pluginMessage, and you should find a script and instructions that gives an example of handling the -pluginMessage in PythonScript – or here’s a dummy test script that I made some time ago in response to this discussion). But since PythonScript has some reload commands, like

• notepad.reloadBuffer(bufferID): Reloads the given bufferID
• notepad.reloadCurrentDocument(): Reloads the current document
• notepad.reloadFile(filename): Reloads a filename.

… then you could use the -pluginMessage hook to issue one of the reload commands.