Managing session with a lot of open files

Alan Kilborn · Feb 7, 2022, 6:52 PM

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()

dz15mlru · Feb 7, 2022, 8:03 PM

@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.

dz15mlru · Feb 7, 2022, 8:10 PM

@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.