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    Alan Kilborn
    last edited by Jul 14, 2017, 1:10 PM

    I’ve noticed an annoying-to-me Notepad++ behavior.

    Make a bunch of new editor tabs:
    new1 new2 new3 new4 new5 new6

    Click on the new2 tab as if you want to edit that “file”.

    Now click the little red X on the new5 tab.

    new5 closes and you are still in the editing area for the new2 tab (good).

    So now we have:
    new1 new2 new3 new4 new6

    Click on the new4 tab as if you want to edit that “file” (but don’t make any edits).

    Now click the little red X on the new4 tab.

    new4 closes and you are taken to the editing area for the new6 tab.

    I find this bad and wish I was returned to new2 as that is where I was last working, not placed into new6 apparently because it is the right-most tab.

    Is there a solution/workaround to this?

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      Claudia Frank @Alan Kilborn
      last edited by Claudia Frank Jul 14, 2017, 1:50 PM Jul 14, 2017, 1:48 PM

      @Alan-Kilborn

      I don’t know of a npp internal solution but a python script may do the following

      register notepad callback BUFFERACTIVATED and FILECLOSED
      an editor callback UPDATEUI
      have a variable which holds the bufferid returned by BUFFERACTIVATED calback
      and a variable which indicates that something has changed by checking UPDATEUI

      High level logic:
      whenever the BUFFERACTIVATED callback returns save the current bufferid
      when UPDATEUI callback returns and is different to updated=10
      save the saved bufferid as the last edited document.
      When a FILECLOSED callback returns, check if last edited document is still there and
      if it is activate it.

      Only tested in brain - so unreliable ;-)

      Cheers
      Claudia

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        gstavi
        last edited by Jul 16, 2017, 9:41 AM

        If you want to build Notepad++ by yourself, here is a patch for this:
        Use-MRU-when-choosing-new-file-to-activate-after-clo.patch

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          Alan Kilborn @gstavi
          last edited by Jul 19, 2017, 12:50 PM

          @gstavi

          I haven’t tried this, but thank you for your comment.

          What are the chances that something like this will get integrated into the main Notepad++ sources? (I would launch a campaign for this!)

          I also noticed this other related scenario:

          • Have 3 documents open in View 0 (main view) and View 1 (secondary view) unopened
          • Be editing in the leftmost (FIRST) editor tab
          • Right click editing tab for the THIRD editor tab
          • Choose “Move to other view” from the popup context menu

          What will result is the THIRD document will move to View 1 as desired, but the active editor tab in View 0 will be set to the SECOND document tab instead of the FIRST. @gstavi , I wonder if your patch handles this situation as well?

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            gstavi
            last edited by Jul 20, 2017, 6:24 AM

            @Alan-Kilborn

            I guess that this patch would not have much objection.
            Since I have multiple patches that some of them will encounter objection I didn’t try to submit anything to mainline.

            Not sure exactly what are your expectation from the scenario you described and what will be the results but my guess is that when a document is moved to another view the source view should choose another document and that will probably happen using the same code I patched so this decision will be based on MRU ordering rather than tab ordering.

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