How to open specific files in different folder where root folder might be varied. Open File in Solution is my temporary solution.

Louis Go

Notepad++ is decent for my paper working.
I’d like to find a way for open specific files at the same time like the example below.

Resource files are customized and organized in locale folders.
I Need to open different files having same name in different locale folders.

Eg:
Open “FormString.xml” file in ENG, CHT, CHS folders.
PS: File name would be varied. It will not always be “FormString.xml”.
–project folder
–ENG
–FormString.xml
–PopupString.xml
–CHT
–FormString.xml
–PopupString.xml
–CHS
–FormString.xml
–PopupString.xml

So far I found “Open File in Solution” is near to my goal.
However I need to switch project locations frequently in SolutionHub is a bit pain in the neck.

The steps below is in a bit of a hassle.

Open SolutionHub and change the folder
Select the folder in folder dialog. ( Note you can’t pase path, need to clicking all the ways down. )
Save connections.

Is there a way to dynamically change Solution hub ofis connection folder location for searching?
Or any other solution is appreciated.

PeterJones

Sorry, I know nothing about Solution Hub (hadn’t even heard of that plugin until just now).

If I’ve understood what you want, you may want to look into sessions, which are “a set of files opened in Notepad++”: Save Session and Load Session functionality is built into Notepad++'s File menu. I have heard from others that if you have more than a couple sessions that you want to deal with, the Session Manager plugin (installable through the Plugins > Plugins Admin) is useful.

Louis Go

@PeterJones
As far as I know save sessions only save in absolute path and cannot fulfill my need above.

Sorry for not describiing my question clearly.

I want to open following files at the same time
C:\solution1\ENG\File.xml
C:\solution1\CHT\File.xml
C:\solution1\CHS\File.xml

Where “C:\solution1” could be “D:\solution2” and “File.xml” could be “Another.xml”
ENG CHT and CHS folder are fixed in relative location.
Both root path and file name could be varied and I can’t predict those names.

Alan Kilborn

@Louis-Go

It sounds to me like a scripting plugin is needed to solve this problem.

guy038

Hello, @louis-go, @Peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All,

Why not a very simple batch file, like below, with the comments inside ?

@echo off

if NOT %2!==! goto Proc

echo.
echo.
echo     Syntax ( 2 PARAMETERS ) :
echo.
echo.
echo         Test.bat (FIRST part of the PATH) (File_NAME)
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo     Open in NOTEPAD++, the 3 FILES in PARAMETER 2, present UNDER the folders
echo.
echo      'ENG', 'CHS' and 'CHT', which are located UNDER the path in PARAMETER 1
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo     REMARK : If any PARAMETER contains SPACE chars, SURROUND it with 2 "" chars
echo.
echo.

goto :EOF


:Proc

REM "<Installation PATH>\notepad++.exe" -nosession %1\ENG\\%2 %1\CHT\\%2 %1\CHS\\%2

Delete, at the end, the command REM and replace the part <Installation PATH> with your full pathname to Notepad++.exe
Save the modifications

Enjoy !

Best Regards,

guy038

Louis Go

@guy038
guy038 Thanks!
It’s the simplest solution. I was digging in the wrong direction too deep.

Louis Go

This is my right click on a file solution.
It comes up with @guy038 's suggestion.
If anyone need to use it.

Change the reg file location to where you put batch file.
Change the batch file XXNotePadPPPath to your actual notepad++ path.
Right click on any file will do the work.

Batchfile

setlocal

FOR %%i IN (%1) DO (
echo filedrive=%%~di
echo set filepath=%%~pi
echo filename=%%~ni
echo fileextension=%%~xi

set XXFilePath=%%~di%%~pi
set XXFilename=%%~ni%%~xi
)

set XXRootPath=%XXFilePath%..\\..
set XXEngPath=%XXRootPath%\\Common\\String_CncEngs\\%XXFilename%
set XXChtPath=%XXRootPath%\\CHT\\String_CncEngs\\%XXFilename%
set XXChsPath=%XXRootPath%\\CHS\\String_CncEngs\\%XXFilename%
"C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" -nosession %XXEngPath% %XXChtPath% %XXChsPath%
endlocal

While using a reg setting. This is tested and run on win10.

Registry file

setlocal
set XXNotePadPPPath="C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"

FOR %%i IN (%1) DO (
echo filedrive=%%~di
echo set filepath=%%~pi
echo filename=%%~ni
echo fileextension=%%~xi

set XXFilePath=%%~di%%~pi
set XXFilename=%%~ni%%~xi
)

set XXRootPath=%XXFilePath%..\\..
set XXEngPath=%XXRootPath%\\Common\\String_CncEngs\\%XXFilename%
set XXChtPath=%XXRootPath%\\CHT\\String_CncEngs\\%XXFilename%
set XXChsPath=%XXRootPath%\\CHS\\String_CncEngs\\%XXFilename%
%XXNotePadppPath% -nosession %XXEngPath% %XXChtPath% %XXChsPath%
endlocal

Alan Kilborn

@Alan-Kilborn said in How to open specific files in different folder where root folder might be varied. Open File in Solution is my temporary solution.:

It sounds to me like a scripting plugin is needed to solve this problem.

Batch file scripting. The plugin-less scripting! :-)