Try using sessions (again)

Gubith

I’m trying to use sessions to have specific tabs open in each.

How can I tell what session I’m in?
Where’s the ‘recent sessions’ list?
Why does Load-Session open current file folder instead of the sessions folder?
Does anyone use NPP Session-Manger?

Suggestion: Add “Exit NPP” to File menu. Currently, “exit” closes only the current window.

PeterJones

Notepad++ doesn’t show you the name of the active session
There isn’t one
There is no such thing as a “sessions folder” in Notepad++'s mind. Notepad++ only keeps track of the most recent successful open or save for determining where to start for the next open or save-as
Yes, there are people who do. No, I am not one. Given your desire for tracking which session you are in and such, I think that using that plugin will be helpful to you.

Regarding your “suggestion”: File > Exit (the last entry in the File menu) does exit the application; it is File > Close that closes the current tab’s file. Oh, wait, you said “current window” rather than “current file” or “current tab” – that means maybe you are using multi-instance mode: in that case, each Notepad++ instance is a separate instance of the Notepad++ application, and one doesn’t know anything about any other(s) – it’s a separate process, with a separate idea of Exit. (If you have two Windows Notepad windows open, exiting from one will not exit from the other ms-notepad windows; in the same way, if you have two Notepad++ processes running, exiting from one will not exit from the other.)

Gubith

@peterjones I tried the session manager earlier, it started opening new instances constantly, it took some effort to get a cmd prompt open and kill it all. Opening NPP started this again – I had to then manually remove it from the plugin folder.

So, I tried it again, this time avoiding the ‘auto-open’ option, and it does allow proper session management. It seems. So far.

I added this to the context:

<Item id="0"  ItemNameAs="========================" />
<Item PluginEntryName="Session Manager" PluginCommandItemName="Settings..." ItemNameAs="Sessions Manager" />
<Item PluginEntryName="Session Manager" PluginCommandItemName="Sessions..." ItemNameAs="Sessions..." />
<Item PluginEntryName="Session Manager" PluginCommandItemName="Save current" ItemNameAs="Save current" />
<Item PluginEntryName="Session Manager" PluginCommandItemName="Load previous" ItemNameAs="Load previous" />

But I found some issues…
When I open a new session, it labels the current window with that session name, then it opens a new window with with wrong tabs. I think whats happening is “sess1” becomes “sess2” when a new session is loaded, so it’s saved as sess2… it’s a big mess.

I can’t recommend using sessions in Notepad++.

Gubith

I was able to get this working…