Keyboard Shortcut for moving tabbed files?

Larry Lovell

I quite often have more than 30 files open and when I need to open a new file NP++ opens it in a new tab at the far right (which is fine), but having files adjacent for some tasks is preferable. Dragging the new file to a different place in a long row of tabbed files can be bothersome, because the application gets hung up, and moves in a jerky way. Is there a keyboard shortcut for highlighting a particular tabbed file so that it can be moved with the keyboard then dropped, rather than with a mouse?

cmeriaux

For sure, You can assign the shortcut you want in shortcut mapper ( Main menu panel) :

Move to Other View
Clone to Other View
Move to New Instance
Open in New Instance

They will process the selected tab.

Here is the XML config file of my configured shortcuts

    <!--Move to Other View - Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Right -->
    <Shortcut id="10001" Ctrl="yes" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="39" />
    <!--Clone to Other View -  -->
    <Shortcut id="10002" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0" />
    <!--Move to New Instance -  -->
    <Shortcut id="10003" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0" />
    <!--Open in New Instance -  -->
    <Shortcut id="10004" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0" />

Scott Sumner

@cmeriaux

Good idea to have keyboard shortcuts for those…but I think the OP is trying to achieve tab movement via keyboard within the same view and instance.

Scott Sumner

@cmeriaux

Thanks for the tip! Inspired by this I created two new macros, both tied to the Move to Other View command; one is tied to ctrl+shift+alt+left, the other is tied to ctrl+shift+alt+right. Although they both do the same thing, it is easier and feels more natural to have the arrow key be the one that points in the direction I want the tab to go. [Note that this implies I have my views arranged left-right instead of over-under.]