Feature Request - Command Line switch to create new file without prompting

Dean Colpitts

We regularly work in the Windows Command Prompt (including a lot of cut and paste commands from other sources such as Outlook messages), and we start Notepad++ (including from in some of our pastes) from there using the command “start notepad++ filename.txt”. If filename.txt doesn’t exist, we are prompted to create new file. We’d like to request a simple switch be added to bypass this prompt (and answer yes automatically) if the file does not already exists. So something like “start notepad++ -new filename.txt”. The file already exists, then the switch should be ignored and filename.txt should open normally.

Thanks

dcc

Claudia Frank

Hello @Dean-Colpitts,

in the meantime you could use a little batch script which can do this for you.
So you don’t start npp directly but instead you use, let’s say,

npp.bat filename

In the batch file you have the following code

if not exist %1 echo. > %1 
start notepad++.exe %1

if checks if the file exists and if not creates it then next line starts notepad with given filename.

Cheers
Claudia

François Gardien

To make a following question: how to load a session file by a command line… To be clear, I’d like to load several instances of the software (several Windows) with different sessions in these ones.
Thanks

Claudia Frank

Hello @François-Gardien,

there is a command line parameter -openSession which can be used to open a previous session.
If you want to start different npp instances with different files then, of course, it is needed that you
have stored the session of each npp instance with a different session file name.

Available command line parameters can be found using ?->commmand line arguments

Cheers
Claudia

François Gardien

Command line runs a session ! It’s good but to open several instance I have to define option at Préférences>Multi-Instance>Always in multi-instance mode, else I have only one instance.
Thanks.

Claudia Frank

Hello @François-Gardien,

correct, I assumed that you already had this.
Just to be sure - there isn’t any open question for you, is it?

Cheers
Claudia

François Gardien

Don’t think to add anything. It’s OK !
Thanks.