Auto sort tabs (real-time)
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Same poster, same topic, DIFFERENT thread.
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So not that I find this idea useful, but I needed some mental exercise while waiting for something to happen today, so I gave it a go with scripting, specifically Pythonscripting.
The result is below; it is a bit of a visual treat when a new file is opened into a view with already a lot of tabs. It is probably too annoying to really be practical, but…
I call the script
SortFileTabsByFilename.py
and here we go:# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from Npp import editor, notepad, NOTIFICATION import os class SFTBF(object): def __init__(self): self.installed = False def install(self): if not self.installed: notepad.callback(self.file_opened_callback, [NOTIFICATION.FILEOPENED]) self.installed = True def uninstall(self): if self.installed: notepad.clearCallbacks(self.file_opened_callback) self.installed = False def is_installed(self): return self.installed def file_opened_callback(self, args): current_view = notepad.getCurrentView() other_view = 1 if current_view == 0 else 0 if notepad.getCurrentDocIndex(other_view) == 4294967295L: other_view = None curr_view_paths_list = []; curr_view_sorted_paths_list = [] other_view_paths_list = []; other_view_sorted_paths_list = [] for (filename, _, index_in_view, view) in notepad.getFiles(): if view == current_view: curr_view_paths_list.append(filename) curr_view_sorted_paths_list.append(filename) else: other_view_paths_list.append(filename) other_view_sorted_paths_list.append(filename) curr_view_sorted_paths_list.sort(key=lambda x: x.rsplit(os.sep, 1)[-1].upper()) curr_view_already_sorted = True if curr_view_paths_list == curr_view_sorted_paths_list else False other_view_sorted_paths_list.sort(key=lambda x: x.rsplit(os.sep, 1)[-1].upper()) other_view_already_sorted = True if other_view_paths_list == other_view_sorted_paths_list else False if curr_view_already_sorted and other_view_already_sorted: return # nothing to do processed_other_view = False if other_view != None and not other_view_already_sorted: self.rearrange_tabs_in_view(other_view, other_view_sorted_paths_list) processed_other_view = True processed_current_view = False if not curr_view_already_sorted: self.rearrange_tabs_in_view(current_view, curr_view_sorted_paths_list) processed_current_view = True if processed_other_view and not processed_current_view: # leave the view we started in as the active one: notepad.activateIndex(current_view, notepad.getCurrentDocIndex(current_view)) def rearrange_tabs_in_view(self, view, sorted_name_list): notepad.activateIndex(view, notepad.getCurrentDocIndex(view)) # get switched into the correct view remembered_active_filename = notepad.getCurrentFilename() destination_index = 0 num_of_tabs = len(sorted_name_list) while destination_index < num_of_tabs: current_order_list = [] for (filename, _, index_in_view, v) in notepad.getFiles(): if v == view: current_order_list.append(filename) curr_location_index = current_order_list.index(sorted_name_list[destination_index]) move_left_count = curr_location_index - destination_index if move_left_count > 0: notepad.activateFile(current_order_list[curr_location_index]) for _ in range(move_left_count): notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.VIEW_TAB_MOVEBACKWARD) destination_index += 1 notepad.activateFile(remembered_active_filename) if __name__ == '__main__': if 'sftbf' not in globals(): sftbf = SFTBF() # each running of the script toggles install/uninstall: sftbf.uninstall() if sftbf.is_installed() else sftbf.install() notepad.messageBox('SortFileTabsByFilename {}INSTALLED!'.format('' if sftbf.is_installed() else 'UN'), '')
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Nice.
However, when I previously said,
which I believe triggers for both opening an existing file and for creating a new file tab
… I was apparently wrong. Because File > New doesn’t trigger the script’s sorting function for me, whereas Open does. I don’t see a message that does seem to be triggered for New, either. Hmm…
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I assume because, technically, new, does not open a file.
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Yes, there are limitations.
I should have mentioned.So, another one is if you “clone” or “move” a file from one view to another.
It won’t be triggered then either.The ideal way would be to tie it into the “buffer activated” callback.
But, hmm, there’s a problem there: As it switches tabs to move things into proper order (during a firing of “buffer activated”), it will cause more "buffer activated"s to happen.
I didn’t do a lot of testing that way, but when I did give it a go, I got some nice N++'s hangs.
I tried turning off the callback at the start of itself, and restoring it right before it returned; that was not liked either (hangs as well).But, like I said, this was just a diversion for today, not something for me to seriously use. If anyone really wants to use it, perhaps they also work on it and figure out how to avoid its deficiencies.
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@PeterJones said in Auto sort tabs (real-time):
Hmm…
As a workaround, it could be done at FILESAVED, because that would be triggered when the new file is first given a name.
That would require hanging line #13 to
notepad.callback(self.file_opened_callback, [NOTIFICATION.FILEOPENED,NOTIFICATION.FILESAVED])
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Perhaps you have some expertise regarding this…
I noticed that “uninstalling” my script doesn’t actually work.
Meaning that if, after uninstall, you open a file that is out of sort order, it will still be moved into its correct name-order.I did some debugging, and I see that, with uninstall, this line IS being executed:
notepad.clearCallbacks(self.file_opened_callback)
but, apparently, isn’t being noted by PS??
Didn’t you, at one time, face a similar issue?
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@Alan-Kilborn said in Auto sort tabs (real-time):
Didn’t you, at one time, face a similar issue?
I think you did --> https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/issues/153
But maybe doesn’t apply in my case, as issue 153 seems to indicate that “Notepad” object callbacks don’t suffer this fate, just “Editor” object callbacks…
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Your script is installing/uninstalling for me. Maybe this isn’t
fixed in PS2?? Let me give it a try with 1.5.X -
Yep, the same script that works with PS3 does not uninstall the callback when you using PS2.
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@Ekopalypse said in Auto sort tabs (real-time):
Yep, the same script that works with PS3 does not uninstall the callback when you using PS2.
Thanks for the confirmation.
I keep forgetting about PS3.
But, in truth, I have a few project where I need non-UTF8 encodings, so I’m a bit afraid to make the jump anyway.
I will make a note in my copy of the script that it can’t be uninstalled under PS2.
But, if it is something that someone will use, I don’t think they’ll uninstall it, and will set up the install part in startup.py. -
@Alan-Kilborn said in Auto sort tabs (real-time):
The ideal way would be to tie it into the “buffer activated” callback.
So I ended up doing this to the script.
To avoid the script “retriggering” itself, I added a new member variable in the init:self.is_installed = False
and then changed the callback function (its name, too!) a bit:
def buffer_activated_callback(self, args): if self.in_callback: return # the script moving tabs around will cause more callbacks to trigger; prevent this self.in_callback = True ... ...what it was doing before... ... self.in_callback = False
It seems to work okay.
If there’s interest, I can republish the entire script with the mods. -
@Alan-Kilborn said in Auto sort tabs (real-time):
I added a new member variable in the init:\
self.is_installed = False ... if self.in_callback:
Was that a typo in the first line, or am I confused and those are two separate things?
Assuming that first line should have been
self.in_callback = False
, I was able to see that work for me.It’s fun to try to “fight” it: try to rearrange the tabs manually while the script is in effect. ;-) But I guess the kind of person who would want this running all the time would not be the kind who would try to fight it, so wouldn’t accidentally trigger the fight.
Good work on that.
Given that it was multiple changes (adding a variable, changing method name, changing the notification it’s hooked to), it might be good to re-publish, so that future readers won’t make mistakes while piecing the script together, and then complain at you that it doesn’t work.
Thanks for the fun diversion.
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@PeterJones said in Auto sort tabs (real-time):
Was that a typo in the first line
Yep, dammit. Sorry.
it might be good to re-publish
OK, will do.
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It’s fun to try to “fight” it: try to rearrange the tabs manually while the script is in effect. ;-)
I certainly did NOT do any type of testing like that!
If it fails during something of that nature, well, sorry, but the user is to blame in that case. :-)and then complain at you that it doesn’t work.
Hey, how did you make that little complain-at-you popup text?
Okay, so here’s an “a” version of the script, with all the changes previously discussed:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from Npp import editor, notepad, NOTIFICATION import os class SFTBFa(object): def __init__(self): self.installed = False self.in_callback = False def install(self): if not self.installed: notepad.callback(self.buffer_activated_callback, [NOTIFICATION.BUFFERACTIVATED]) self.installed = True def uninstall(self): if self.installed: notepad.clearCallbacks(self.buffer_activated_callback) # <---- may not work until PS 3.0.4+; see https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/issues/153 self.installed = False def is_installed(self): return self.installed def buffer_activated_callback(self, args): if self.in_callback: return # the script moving tabs around will cause more callbacks to trigger; prevent this self.in_callback = True current_view = notepad.getCurrentView() other_view = 1 if current_view == 0 else 0 if notepad.getCurrentDocIndex(other_view) == 4294967295L: other_view = None curr_view_paths_list = []; curr_view_sorted_paths_list = [] other_view_paths_list = []; other_view_sorted_paths_list = [] for (filename, _, index_in_view, view) in notepad.getFiles(): if view == current_view: curr_view_paths_list.append(filename) curr_view_sorted_paths_list.append(filename) else: other_view_paths_list.append(filename) other_view_sorted_paths_list.append(filename) curr_view_sorted_paths_list.sort(key=lambda x: x.rsplit(os.sep, 1)[-1].upper()) curr_view_already_sorted = True if curr_view_paths_list == curr_view_sorted_paths_list else False other_view_sorted_paths_list.sort(key=lambda x: x.rsplit(os.sep, 1)[-1].upper()) other_view_already_sorted = True if other_view_paths_list == other_view_sorted_paths_list else False if not (curr_view_already_sorted and other_view_already_sorted): processed_other_view = False if other_view != None and not other_view_already_sorted: self.rearrange_tabs_in_view(other_view, other_view_sorted_paths_list) processed_other_view = True processed_current_view = False if not curr_view_already_sorted: self.rearrange_tabs_in_view(current_view, curr_view_sorted_paths_list) processed_current_view = True if processed_other_view and not processed_current_view: # leave the view we started in as the active one: notepad.activateIndex(current_view, notepad.getCurrentDocIndex(current_view)) self.in_callback = False def rearrange_tabs_in_view(self, view, sorted_name_list): notepad.activateIndex(view, notepad.getCurrentDocIndex(view)) # get switched into the correct view remembered_active_filename = notepad.getCurrentFilename() destination_index = 0 num_of_tabs = len(sorted_name_list) while destination_index < num_of_tabs: current_order_list = [] for (filename, _, index_in_view, v) in notepad.getFiles(): if v == view: current_order_list.append(filename) curr_location_index = current_order_list.index(sorted_name_list[destination_index]) move_left_count = curr_location_index - destination_index if move_left_count > 0: notepad.activateFile(current_order_list[curr_location_index]) for _ in range(move_left_count): notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.VIEW_TAB_MOVEBACKWARD) destination_index += 1 notepad.activateFile(remembered_active_filename) if __name__ == '__main__': if 'sftbf_a' not in globals(): sftbf_a = SFTBFa() # each running of the script toggles install/uninstall: sftbf_a.uninstall() if sftbf_a.is_installed() else sftbf_a.install() notepad.messageBox('SortFileTabsByFilename {}INSTALLED!'.format('' if sftbf_a.is_installed() else 'UN'), '')
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@Alan-Kilborn said in Auto sort tabs (real-time):
how did you make that little complain-at-you popup text?
I think that I may have…
Well, not quite, because when I click on mine it takes me somewhere (bad) whereas clicking on @PeterJones 's it doesn’t go anywhere.
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@Alan-Kilborn said in Auto sort tabs (real-time):
Hey, how did you make that little complain-at-you popup text?
See How to Markdown Code on this forum. 😉
No, really, it’s there:
This is a simple [here](https://www.google.com “go Google!”) link with custom hover pop-up text
The popup hover text is the “title” text of the link. It’s also described at the no-longer-officially-linked daringfireball markdown spec
And then, while I’m typing, you said
I think that I may have [figured it out myself]…
Congrats. Of course, if I weren’t wanting the bragging rights, I wouldn’t have been able to post this reply, since you went and figured it out.
Well, not quite,
Oh, sure, you realize you had a problem while I am still writing about your problem. Let me type this reply! 😠
[text](# "hover")
will do what you want. The#
is the HTML shortcut for “go to the unnamed anchor on the current page”, which has been HTML shorthand for “do nothing with this link” forever (or, at least, from early forms of HTML in the 90s) -
looks like auto-sort is really a rocket science…
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@Maxitrol-Mat said in Auto sort tabs (real-time):
looks like auto-sort is really a rocket science…
Why do you say that?
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Regardless of other’s sense of entitlement, I certainly appreciate the free software of notepad++ :D
@alan-kilborn, I have a couple of questions:
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How could I modify this to work so I can get my tabs to sort by ‘creation date’ since I accidentally sorted by ‘Name’ when I hit that ‘Sort Tabs’ button in the existing feature? … Maybe there is a simpler method since I’m not in need of automation?
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Also, how does one run a script for notepad++?
Btw, there is another post for my particular request by @Ashil-Krishnan here, but no solution. However, @PeterJones referenced this post, which brought me here to inquire.
Thanks!
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