Enable (tick) the Peek on tab feature in the MISC. section (of Settings menu -> Preferences). When your input focus is NOT in your active document (maybe it is in a console window or the Find-what zone of the Find window), but you want to move it there without changing caret position or destroying a currently-active selection(s), simply point the mouse at an inactive tab–assumes you have more than one file open–and the (IMO otherwise useless) document-peeker window will pop up. You will find input focus is now back in the editing window for the currently-active tab in the most recently-accessed view (view0 or view1).

A slightly faster solution than @Claudia-Frank 's alt+w+w+enter is the double Windows logo press

but this doesn’t work on my linux installation :-(

Cheers
Claudia

import SendKeys
SendKeys.SendKeys("%{W}W{ENTER}")  # press Alt+W, then W, then Enter (to give focus to the editing tab that was active in the previous N++ run)

If you are using NppGTags plugin then you can use its “Toggle Results Window Focus” command to switch to your active Scintilla doc window. You’ll need to assign a shortcut to the plugin command to be able to use it without the mouse.
However it will just take you to the edited document - there is currently no way to switch the focus back to PythonScript or NppExec console.
I can easily implement it though.

BR,
Pavel

Hi Scott, nppexec has a builtin function “toggle console dialog” and for python script
and others I do alt+w+w+enter.

Cheers
Claudia

Thanks for the reply. It doesn’t seem to get invoked when my focus is anywhere in the Pythonscript console window and I press the keycombo I’ve assigned. If I’m in an editor window and press the keycombo, I see the console write of the debug message (“I’m running”) I created to make sure nothing else is breaking down with my process. However, when I’m in the console area, pressing the keycombo results in no debug message. Same bad result if the NppExec console window has focus when invoked. It DOES work if I’m in the Find Result panel when I run it, or if I run it via the menu after giving focus to either of the mentioned consoles…

Humm… I just tried and…( I may be wrong ) I’m thinking about a very easy way to do it :-))

So, let’s suppose you opened our loved editor and that you displayed, for instance, the Python Console. Then :

• With your mouse, create, in the current file, a normal or column mode selection ( or even the two ones, simultaneously ! )

• Click inside the Python console to get the focus on the plugin

• Right-click, on the tab of the current file, to get the specific context menu, about tabs

• Finally, either, hit the ESC key OR Left-click on the current tab, to close the context menu

=> The focus should be back to the main editor window, with all the selections still highlighted and the cursor location unchanged

Cheers,

guy038

editor.grabFocus()

See the documentation for grabFocus().