Notepad++ 'Open Containing Folder in Explorer'' back to one level tab right click context menu

dmpossa

There is a way to right click in the tab of a document and see the option ‘Open Containing Folder in Explorer’ direct in the context menu, without the need to enter in the option ‘Open into’.

Notepad++ older version was much better, I see this second level ‘Open into’ as a regression in terms of usability.

PeterJones

@dmpossa ,

I see this second level ‘Open into’ as a regression in terms of usability.

In your opinion. There are many users who are glad to have it dropped to a second level so that it’s grouped with other similar commands, without making the right-click context menu extend beyond the bottom of their screen.

Fortunately for your difference of opinion, the right-click context menu inside Notepad++ is completely user-customizable: the one for right-click context menu from inside the editor portion can be edited by using Settings > Edit Popup Context Menu and edit it, or manually opening contextMenu.xml from your config file location. The file to customize right-clicking on the tab bar is the tabContextMenu.xml – if tabContextMenu.xml doesn’t exist in your config file location, you can copy tabContextMenu_example.xml to tabContextMenu.xml, and edit that one. To take it out of the Open Into folder and put it back at the top level, just remove Folder Name="Open Into" from the appropriate <Item ...>

Alan Kilborn

@PeterJones said in Notepad++ ‘Open Containing Folder in Explorer’’ back to one level tab right click context menu:

the right-click context menu inside Notepad++ is completely user-customizable: the one for right-click context menu from inside the editor portion can be edited by using Settings > Edit Popup Context Menu and edit it, or manually opening contextMenu.xml from your config file location.

Probably this part isn’t relevant for what OP really wants, although it could be done this way, and it is good general info for those that might have not known (or forgotten) that the editor area’s right-click menu can be changed.

PeterJones

@Alan-Kilborn said in Notepad++ ‘Open Containing Folder in Explorer’’ back to one level tab right click context menu:

Probably this part isn’t relevant for what OP really wants

Yeah, when I was first writing my reply, I didn’t immediately understand they meant the tab bar context menu, and the editor context menu was the first that came to mind – and since my default editor context menu is highly modified, I couldn’t remember whether my lack of that submenu was because of my mods or because the default doesn’t come with that entry in the editor. Thus, when I realized partway through that they probably meant the tab bar, I added in that part of the instructions, but I left in the instructions for the editor context menu, just in case.

dmpossa

@PeterJones Of course this is my opinion, otherwise it would be your opinion.