Set file type to default to ".txt" file

[Kris Rowlands]

My primary action is NP++ is “Save As”, as I’m always saving new files from existing ones.

When the “save as” window opens, the file type defaults to “all file types”. I’d like this to default to “.txt file”.

Is there a way to set this as default? Thank you!

[Alan Kilborn]

@Kris-Rowlands

Why not forget about all that and just add .txt to the end when you populate the File name: box?

BTW, it really isn’t a “Save as type” box; it’s a “Show me existing files of this type so that I don’t pick a name for my new file that collides with an existing name” box. It defaults to *.* to show you EVERYTHING you’ve got, and you can change the dropdown to narrow what it is showing you.

[Kris Rowlands]

Adding “.txt” is four more keystrokes that I do not need to type if there is a way to set this as default. If it cannot be set as a default in the “save as type” box, there should be a way to set it in the program itself.

Thanks for your suggestion, though!

[Ekopalypse]

@Kris-Rowlands

From Settings->Preferences->Default Directory uncheck Use new style dialog…

[Kris Rowlands]

@Ekopalypse

There it is! Thank you!

[Alan Kilborn]

@Ekopalypse said in Set file type to default to ".txt" file:

uncheck Use new style dialog…

Yes, but there are aspects of the “old style” dialog that may not be desirable. So you have to decide if not “typing that 4 extra characters” (which I will point out, needs to be done ONCE for the entire lifetime of a file) is worth that tradeoff.

[Ekopalypse]

@Alan-Kilborn

At the end it depends what one is doing.
If most of the time I create a new file by cutting/posting/pasting then
this might be the solution - for other tasks it might be not.