Is there a way to close the window without confirming the save?

piglingcn

When i open many files，i just want to keep one and close other files without save.
I think this would be a popular feature .
thanks reading.^-^

PeterJones

@piglingcn said:

keep one and close other files without save.
I think this would be a popular feature .

Funny, I would think that most people would be horrified that if they chose “close all but this file”, it would throw away all the changes they made in all the other files. But maybe you have a use-case I cannot imagine.

If you really want to request this feature, this faq explains where to make feature requests so that they can be properly tracked. But be prepared to have to explain exactly what you want, justify why you think it’s a good idea, have people disagree with you, and potentially have the request rejected by the developer or ignored for years to come. (The same potential scenario is true for any feature request, not just this particular request, so I’m not trying to pick on you.)

Alan Kilborn

I think from observing some of the Notepad++ source code commits on github recently, that a feature that will help out the OP is coming soon to Notepad++.

What the OP would do is right-click the tab of the one file they are interested in keeping, then choose Close All BUT This. A dialog box will come up and will have a No to All option (this is the recently committed code) when N++ asks to save files, which the OP would select.

dinkumoil

@piglingcn

Indeed, as @Alan-Kilborn already said there is a feature in the pipeline that will help you out. But since we are in holiday times and there are problems with the Notepad++ download server it may take a while until the next release. In the meanwhile you could use the NppExec scripting plugin and the following script as a workaround:

npp_console keep
npp_console disable
npe_console -- m-

set local MainViewId ~ MAIN_VIEW
set local SubViewId ~ SUB_VIEW
set local PrimaryView ~ PRIMARY_VIEW
set local SecondView ~ SECOND_VIEW

npp_sendmsg NPPM_GETCURRENTBUFFERID
set local CurBufId = $(MSG_RESULT)

npp_sendmsg NPPM_GETCURRENTVIEW
set local CurViewId = $(MSG_RESULT)

if $(CurViewId) == $(MainViewId) then
  set local CurView = $(PrimaryView)
  set local OtherView = $(SecondView)
  set local OtherViewId = $(SubViewId)
else if $(CurViewId) == $(SubViewId) then
  set local CurView = $(SecondView)
  set local OtherView = $(PrimaryView)
  set local OtherViewId = $(MainViewId)
else
  exit
endif
  
set local Cnt = 0

:RepeatLoop
  npp_sendmsg NPPM_GETNBOPENFILES 0 $(CurView)
  set local Idx ~ $(MSG_RESULT) - 1

  :ForHead
  if $(Idx) < 0 goto ForEnd
    npp_sendmsg NPPM_ACTIVATEDOC $(CurViewId) $(Idx)

    npp_sendmsg NPPM_GETBUFFERIDFROMPOS $(Idx) $(CurViewId)
    set local BufId = $(MSG_RESULT)
    
    if $(BufId) != $(CurBufId) then
      npp_sendmsg NPPM_RELOADBUFFERID $(BufId) 0

      if $(MSG_RESULT) == 1 then
        npp_sendmsg NPPM_MENUCOMMAND 0 IDM_FILE_CLOSE
      endif
    endif

    set local Idx ~ $(Idx) - 1
    goto ForHead
  :ForEnd
  
  set local CurViewId = $(OtherViewId)
  set local CurView = $(OtherView)
  set local Cnt ~ $(Cnt) + 1
if $(Cnt) <= 1 goto RepeatLoop

The script will close all unsaved files if they are real files on disk. Newly created files (whose names are like new 1, new 2 and so on) will stay open.

Munsen Tidoco

Here you have the answer.
It is very useful to close everything from time to time.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16562/close-all