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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
              last edited by

              @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
                  last edited by

                  @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
                                last edited by

                                @alan-kilborn Thank you! I’ve succeeded. It works fine!
                                Great job!

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