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    • dz15mlruD
      dz15mlru @Alan Kilborn
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      @alan-kilborn Mm. Thx. Probably useful options, but not for me. I need the multi-line enabled. If hiding the tab bar, I’ll need a hot key to easily toggle -show/hide the tab bar. Now I know what I need )
      Is there such a hot key, or should I request one?

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @dz15mlru
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        @dz15mlru ,

        You could hide the tab bar through the option once, and assign a keyboard shortcut to the View > Document List , which gives an alternate method of navigating all the tabs you have open.

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn
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          Also, if you use the PythonScript plugin, there are a couple of commands that could be tied to custom keycombos:

          notepad.hideTabBar()
          notepad.showTabBar()

          Rather than burn two available keycombos, you could write a script that will toggle, but there’s no corresponding .isTabBarVisible() function. :-(

          However, you could call showTabBar in startup.py and then have a toggling script that could internally keep track of the state.

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          • Alan KilbornA
            Alan Kilborn @dz15mlru
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            @dz15mlru said in Managing session with a lot of open files:

            Is there such a hot key, or should I request one?

            Apparently, you requested one:

            https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/11145

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            • Alan KilbornA
              Alan Kilborn @Alan Kilborn
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              Here’s a PythonScript called TabBarVisibilityToggle.py that will (somewhat obviously) toggle the visibility of the tab bar with each run of the script. I tied it to the single hotkey suggestion of Ctrl+Alt+Shift+t.

              As indicated before, the startup state of N++ doesn’t know if the tab bar is showing or hiding, so I default to showing it with this single line in startup.py: notepad.showTabBar()

              So here’s the script:

              # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
              from __future__ import print_function
              
              from Npp import *
              
              #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              
              class TBVT(object):
              
                  def __init__(self):
                      self.tab_bar_visible = True
              
                  def run(self):
                      self.tab_bar_visible = not self.tab_bar_visible
                      notepad.showTabBar() if self.tab_bar_visible else notepad.hideTabBar()
              
              #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              
              if __name__ == '__main__':
                  try:
                      tbvt
                  except NameError:
                      tbvt = TBVT()
                  tbvt.run()
              
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              • dz15mlruD
                dz15mlru @Alan Kilborn
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                @alan-kilborn said in Managing session with a lot of open files:

                Also, if you use the PythonScript plugin[…]

                I am not really into these plugins with user scripts.
                Thanks for you efforts!
                Tried to do it.
                Added notepad.showTabBar() in startup.py
                Created a new script with your code.
                Can’t find how to assign hotkey to a script?
                Now it works from menu’s script button.

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                • dz15mlruD
                  dz15mlru @PeterJones
                  last edited by

                  @peterjones
                  Oh, I’ve forgot about Document List mode. Thanks for suggestion.

                  I’ll stick to this variation for a while:
                  Show tab bar in single line and enable Document List mode.
                  Not really what I wanted; I’ll wait for the reqested hot key.

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                  • Alan KilbornA
                    Alan Kilborn @dz15mlru
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                    @dz15mlru said in Managing session with a lot of open files:

                    Can’t find how to assign hotkey to a script?

                    There’s a nice demo of how to do that HERE.
                    At least I call it nice because I wrote it. :-)

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                    • Alan KilbornA
                      Alan Kilborn @dz15mlru
                      last edited by

                      @dz15mlru said in Managing session with a lot of open files:

                      I’ll wait for the reqested hot key.

                      Not all requests are fulfilled.
                      Typically devs will see issues that can be solved by plugins and they let that solution ride.
                      So…

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                      • dz15mlruD
                        dz15mlru @dz15mlru
                        last edited by

                        @dz15mlru said in Managing session with a lot of open files:

                        I have a lot of open files, over 200 up to 300[…]

                        Session.xml says that actually there are 340+ open tabs ))

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                        • dz15mlruD
                          dz15mlru
                          last edited by

                          @alan-kilborn said in Managing session with a lot of open files:

                          Apparently, you requested one:
                          https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/11145

                          Yes.
                          Waiting, maybe it will be implemented soon.

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                          • Alan KilbornA
                            Alan Kilborn @dz15mlru
                            last edited by

                            @dz15mlru said in Managing session with a lot of open files:

                            Waiting, maybe it will be implemented soon.

                            I take it you are new to this. ;-)
                            Good luck.

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                            • dz15mlruD
                              dz15mlru @Alan Kilborn
                              last edited by

                              @alan-kilborn said in Managing session with a lot of open files:

                              There’s a nice demo of how to do that HERE.

                              Can you check the link pls? It’s broken.

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                              • Alan KilbornA
                                Alan Kilborn @dz15mlru
                                last edited by

                                @dz15mlru said in Managing session with a lot of open files:

                                Can you check the link pls? It’s broken.

                                So it is. Try THIS instead.

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                                • dz15mlruD
                                  dz15mlru @Alan Kilborn
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                                  @alan-kilborn Thank you! I’ve succeeded. It works fine!
                                  Great job!

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