Scrollable page tabs

Filious Factotum

I am so impressed with Notepad ++… I use it all the time, especially when developing.

Now I’m pretty sure that someone must have asked for this before but would it be possible to employ the mouse wheel to scroll through the page tabs. Sometimes, when working on my latest build, I have 30+ tabs open. Its not a massive feature that everyone would enjoy but for me it would be a great bonus. Is this do-able?

Claudia Frank

Hello @Filious-Factotum

afaik, not yet implemented but do you know that you can access the tabs by using

CTRL+1 or 2 or 3 - 9 (on numpad) directly and with
CTRL+page up and page down to switch to next/previous tab?

Cheers
Claudia

Filious Factotum

Hey thaks for the speedy response Claudia… and no, I didn’t know. Thanks for sharing…There are so many great features notepad++ team have come up with…

guy038

Hello Filious,

Oh ! I missed that post. I’ve, also, a nice solution that uses the mouse :

Click and hold on the mouse RIGHT button
At the SAME time, move, up or down, the wheel mouse, to select the wanted file

=> At once, the yellow-orange list of all the opened documents should appear

Release the RIGHT mouse button to close the files list and open the wanted file, whose path appears in bold characters

NOTE :

For less than about 50 files, simultaneously opened, in your N++ session, this list should be seen, in its totality, on the screen !
This mouse gesture is a bit hard to get, at first, but, once you get used to, you’ll find this gesture quite natural :-))

Best Regards

guy038

Yaron

Hello guy038,

Thank you so much for this nice tip. How did you find it? :)

Allow me to use this opportunity and thank you also for your extraordinary Regex solutions.
You are the undisputed Regex master.

Best regards.

guy038

Hi Yaron,

Thank you for your kind words. Indeed, regexes are, really, a fascinating world !. We can, generally, produce many changes, in a text, with a very short regex expression. And getting the shortest one, is just like a game, a kind of puzzle, to my mind :-)

As for the tip, of my previous post, I, just, read the N++ documentation, from the different links, below :

https://donho1.gitbooks.io/npp-user-manual/content/switching-between-documents.html

http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Document_Management#Document_management

or download the .CHM file, from the link below, and look at the section Switching between documents :

http://oedoc.free.fr/NppHelp/EN/NppHelp.chm

See also, my post below :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/11293/6-9-release-candidate/9

Cheers,

guy038

Yaron

Hello guy038,

It’s a pleasure complementing someone who really deserves it.

It turns out that reading an application’s documentation can actually be useful. :)
Thank you for those links.

Best regards.

Ian

Just reading this now, in 2024, about eight years after thread creation.
Atop, there are tabs of all Notepad++ files open. I can two-finger-scroll up or down to move the tabs to the right or left, respectively. I love this feature but on my Notepad++ the scrolling sensitivity is much too light. Even the slightest scroll moves the tabs so quickly I miss any tabs in the middle, between my most recently and least currently opened files. How can I slow the scrolling speed? I do not want to change my mouse scrolling speed altogether, as the speed at which I scroll webpages and notepad pages with the two-finger-scroll method is perfectly fine. It is only in the Notepad++ app, and then only when scrolling the open file tabs at the upper part of the screen.

mkupper

@Ian said in Scrollable page tabs:

Just reading this now, in 2024, about eight years after thread creation.
Atop, there are tabs of all Notepad++ files open. I can two-finger-scroll up or down to move the tabs to the right or left, respectively. I love this feature but on my Notepad++ the scrolling sensitivity is much too light. Even the slightest scroll moves the tabs so quickly I miss any tabs in the middle, between my most recently and least currently opened files. How can I slow the scrolling speed? I do not want to change my mouse scrolling speed altogether, as the speed at which I scroll webpages and notepad pages with the two-finger-scroll method is perfectly fine. It is only in the Notepad++ app, and then only when scrolling the open file tabs at the upper part of the screen.

From the keyboard you can use Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Shift+Tab which will pull up the same thing that mouse right-click + mouse wheel brings up. Keep holding the Ctrl key and release the Tab key. While holding the Ctrl key down use the up/down arrow keys to scroll through the list. Using the keyboard may gives you a more fine grained control over the scrolling through the list than the mouse wheel. The mouse wheel also works for scrolling this list while the Ctrl key is being held down.

For more about this please see https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/user-interface/#document-switcher

FYI - the document switcher can be disabled via Preferences / MISC. / Document Switcher / Enable. If you try either the right click plus mouse wheel thing or Ctrl+Tab and “nothing happens” then check that the document switcher is enabled in preferences.

To fix or change the specific issue @Ian brought up with mouse wheel sensitivity when in document switcher mode we would need to go through the Notepad++'s FAQ: Feature Request or Bug Report system.