NavigateTo - navigate between files(tabs) quickly like a Ninja :D

guy038

I tested your fourth version ( v1.8.2 ) ansd here are my first impressions :

First of all, young-developper, many thanks for the main improved features :

The highlighting of characters, according the the filter zone
The “negative” search, which find all the files, whose filter’s characters are NOT found in the their absolute path, if the special symbol
( | ) is added at the very beginning of the filter
The closing the dialog, on losing the focus.
The two colours, between odd and even rows of the list
The fixing of the “New #n” tab bug
The constant updating of the list of files, according to the ones which has, just, been created, opened from the Recent Files List, renamed or closed. Quite nice, indeed !

Now, to my mind, four bugs, by decreasing priority, which should be easily fixed :

If the name of a file contains accentuated characters ( as é, à or else ) it’s impossible to move to this file, either :
- By double-clicking, on the selected line
- By hitting the Enter key, on the selected line

Note that if you type, for instance, the é accentuated character in the filter zone, it does find all the files, which contain the é lowercase letter, in their absolute path

Presently, your filter is non sensitive to case. I do think it’s the best behaviour. However, I noticed that :
- If the Filter zone contains the unique accentuated letter É, only files containing a É uppercase letter are listed
- If the Filter zone contains the unique accentuated letter é, only files containing a é lowercase letter are listed
The list of files is highlighted, only if ALL the letters, in the filter zone, are lowercase ! As soon as a capital letter is inserted, the highlighting disappears ? However, the list of the files is still correct :-))
As @gstavi said, the Navigate To dialog should have a minimal size ! I’m thinking about 10 cm wide and 5 cm height :-)). Does this idea seems sensible to you ?

Two remarks :

I noticed that, only, the first occurrence of a string, in the filter zone is highlighted, in the list. For instance, let’s suppose that the filter contains the single lowercase letter o and that you have a tab, named ooooooh.txt
Your plugin just highlight the first letter o of the file name. I first thought it was a ( small ) bug, but, finally, it minimizes the highlighting and make the list more easy to read !
I’ve just realized that your list is a complete “lower-case” list, even if some files contain capital letters, in the name/path. I suppose you did that way, on purpose ! However, to my mind, a name as, for instance, To Do List.txt seems easier to understand than displaying the name to do list.txt ! What do you think about that point ?

One request :

I’m wondering about the possibility of displaying a new column, which would indicate the view, to whom each opened tab belongs. ( I mean : View 0 / 1 OR View 1 / 2 ) It would be an additional info and we could sort the list by View. Of course, young-developer, it’s just a suggestion !

Globally, your plugin just makes my N++ work more efficient, every day !! In my opinion, adding many features, to your plugin, could not be, finally, the best solution. You give us a neat and quick tool. It’s the most important thing to remember ! Anyway, it’s up to you, of course !

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

I’ve just unckecked the Multi-line option, in the Preferences > General > Tab Bar zone. Indeed, I don’t need the multi-lines tab feature, anymore, with the Navigate To plugin :-)) Now, even with more than 100 tabs opened, my editor window remains really larger than before and any opened file is easy to reach !!

young-developer

@guy038 , @gstavi
New version https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/releases/tag/1.12.2 is available.

guy038

Hello, @young-developer,

I was impatient to test your your new v1.12.2 version ! And sorry, for this later report of my testing !

First, if you right-click on the NavigateTo.dll file, and choose the Properties option, in the context menu, the file version, and the product version, seem, both, erroneous ( v1.10.2 ) ! We’re beginning slowly, aren’t we :-))

As before, this new bunch of features, added in this current version, is quite impressive :

The possibility to get the N++ context tabs menu, directly, from your plugin window, with the immediate activation of the selected file ( How did you do that !? )
The preview functionality, by selecting the right tab, with the two shortcuts Shift + Up arrow and Shift + Down arrow, is really easy to use !
The new View column, which allows to sort by view, the current list of files
The file status, of each file, given by the colouring of the line text ( Black, Red or Grey )
The minimum size of the plugin window and the number of results, according to the current filter, moved in the windows title

All the bugs, of the previous version, are fixed :

The list of files found, according to the filter text, are, correctly, written, in their exact case
Whatever the case of the filter text, all the files, whose name contains the filter text, in any case, are, correctly, listed

However, there’s still a small bug : clicking on the header, of the new View column, does not sort files by View, but, wrongly, by the Path column !?

BTW, I noticed that if you, simply, type the digit 1 or 2, in the filter zone, it does not select all the files of View 1 or View 2. I do think that it’s the correct behaviour, as we’ll still have the possibility to sort by View, once the secondary bug, above, fixed !

Now, @young-developer, to my mind, two things may be improved :

Firstly, the present line colouring is not very easy to distinguish. I’m thinking about two other solutions :
- The use of blue, red and grey bookmarks
- An other one-character column, with the file status ( S aved, U nsaved, R ead-Only ), which allows further sorting
Secondly, I think that the filter should search, by default, on the names of files, exclusively ! In that case, it would be necessary, either :
- To add a menu option to allow the present way of filtering, both on file name and on the absolute pathname
- To allow the use, for instance, of the / character, at beginning of the filter zone, to indicate this second way of searching

Of course, there are suggestions, only. Anyway, it’s up to you !

Good luck for the few steps to the final mature version of your excellent plugin :-))

Best Regards,

guy038

NN---

Small isues:

Key shortcuts don’t work, you cannot do Ctrl+A and delete
Page down selects an item unlike Up/Down which just travel in the list.
No simple key to reset selection like Esc or smth like that
Once you written anything next Ctrl+, preserves your text , which nice but mostly useless.

Thanks.

Lucio Fernandez

@young-developer Not sure if you are still developing this plugin?

One simple suggestion:

Adding NP++ blue/red icon to identify modified files.

bye

PeterJones

@lucio-fernandez said in NavigateTo - navigate between files(tabs) quickly like a Ninja :D:

@young-developer Not sure if you are still developing this plugin?

That user hasn’t been in the forum since 2018. That plugin has a github page, so there’s an issues list there… but it looks like there hasn’t been any update to the plugin since 2018 as well. The chances are, it’s not being developed/maintained any more, though it wouldn’t hurt to put a feature request there, if a similar request doesn’t already exist.

Also, please note that the plugin interface changed slightly recently (NPP v8.3 and newer); if the plugin uses a certain set of calls , it may be unstable in the recent NPP versions (though no one has reported an instability here, and we heard about quite a few plugins that did use the changed call, so it might be okay).

Alan Kilborn

@lucio-fernandez said in NavigateTo - navigate between files(tabs) quickly like a Ninja :D:

Adding NP++ blue/red icon to identify modified files

Or even better: Stop using colors (or worse, colored diskette icons) that don’t mean really anything in today’s world, and use some icons that mean something: Notepad++'s “alternate icons” set.

young-developer

@nn There is new version. v.1.12.7. It includes bug fixes and hotkeys issues were resolved and second view search was fixed. If you find any additional (regression )issues please create a ticket on GitHub.
https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/releases

young-developer

New plugin v2 is available. Please retest and let me know if something else can be added/changed: https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/releases/tag/v.2.0.0

Alan Kilborn

@young-developer said in NavigateTo - navigate between files(tabs) quickly like a Ninja :D:

New plugin v2 is available. Please retest and let me know if something else can be added/changed

It’s traditional to state what has changed, either here or on the release site (and I see nothing in either place). Updates typically have new features or bug fixes that make users interested enough to “go and see”. Without that, and without an easy update mechanism (e.g. through a N++ release, and a new plugin available on Plugins Admin), how many people are going to spend time doing this…

young-developer

@Alan-Kilborn The same functionality as for old version 1 but reimplemented in v2. It is still in beta testing and I am trying to understand how users actually using it and try to add different options. I am going to post full list of new functionality for v2 as soon as all bugs will be fixed. Also each release on GitHub includes history of changes with descriptions: https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/releases

young-developer

@Alan-Kilborn I am going to add it to Plugin Admin as soon as it is stable. Manual installation is just for beta testers.

Alan Kilborn

@young-developer said in NavigateTo - navigate between files(tabs) quickly like a Ninja :D:

Also each release on GitHub includes history of changes with descriptions

Well, you didn’t do that for where you linked before:

https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/releases/tag/v.2.0.0

Nor did you identify that as a “beta version” in your earlier posting.

If you’re going to provide an announcement here, it pays to make it an announcement with some real information…not simply “please retest”.

Now that I actually have some information, I will be trying out this new beta version of your plugin, and I will provide feedback if I have any.

MM-John

Impressed that “5 years later” this thread and plugin again got attention. This plugin is exactly what I needed.

The alternative plugin mentioned by @DaveyD in 2017, called “File Switcher, by Dave Brotherstone” no longer appears in my Plugin Admin (maybe I’m doing something wrong) so I’m glad I have this.

[FYI: I found this plugin mentioned at https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/14375/search-open-file-name after searching the internet for “notepad++ search open tabs” and “notepad++ search open filenames”.]

My problem is I have 31 tabs open and NavigateTo didnt see 2 of my tabs. Both are recently opened. But it does see fine another tab that was recently opened.

One of the missing files is from a flash drive, flash drive then removed, npp asks me if I want to keep it and I say yes. But the other is regular file resident on local drive. And other files from the flash drive show up. And another new file I just loaded while writing this is correctly present in the NavigateTo list.

I am using v.1.12.4.1 and my Notepad++ is at v8.3.3 which is not the latest.

Possibly this fix released in v.1.12.6 that I don’t have yet fixes it: https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/issues/15; Or my issue could be different/similar/related.

I’ll update to the latest and try it again later when I have time.

If it helps:
Notepad++ v8.3.3 (64-bit)
Build time : Mar 13 2022 - 17:20:02
Path : C:\M***s\programs\npp.8.3.3.portable.x64\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : ON
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
OS Version : 2009
OS Build : 19044.1766
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : ComparePlugin.dll DSpellCheck.dll mimeTools.dll NavigateTo.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll NppTextViz.dll NppXmlTreeviewPlugin.dll TakeNotes.dll XMLTools.dll

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