Need command to restart Notepad ++

Meta Chuh

The TASKKILL command doesn’t really kill a process, instead it sends a signal to a process requesting to terminate itself.

not quite. with the /f switch in taskkill /f /im notepad++.exe, the process will be terminated non graceful and immediately.
but your script is cool.

@andrecool-68

you can put it directly into shortcut.xml, without an extra batch file:

<Command name="Restart" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">cmd /c taskkill /f /im notepad++.exe && "FULL_PATH_TO_YOUR\notepad++.exe"</Command>

dinkumoil

@Meta-Chuh said:

with the /f switch in taskkill /f /im notepad++.exe, the process will be terminated non graceful and immediately.

You are right. I assumed that nobody wants to loose his unsaved documents, but there may be cases.

andrecool-68

@Meta-Chuh
And how is such a combination of two code variants … does it violate the laws of criminal law?

<Command name="Restart" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">cmd /c taskkill /f /im notepad++.exe && start notepad++.exe</Command>

dinkumoil

@andrecool-68

You have to escape the & characters to be compliant with the XML syntax:

<Command name="Restart" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">cmd /c taskkill /f /im notepad++.exe &amp;&amp; start notepad++.exe</Command>

But why do you want to do that? It is not necessary to explicitly launch cmd.exe since taskkill is a console command, hence cmd.exe is started automatically. Or, to be exact, taskkill is started and attached to a new console.

EDIT: Forget what I wrote above, you want to start Npp after terminating the running instance, thus you need to call cmd.exe.

andrecool-68

@dinkumoil I just want to get the most minimal code.

dinkumoil

@andrecool-68

Ah, now I understand your point, you erased the FULL_PATH_TO_YOUR\ part of @Meta-Chuh 's code.

Well, I would say you are lucky that it works without the full path to Npp. I guess currently Npp sets its own path as the current path when it executes the command. But I would not rely on that, maybe this behaviour changes in the future.

Over the years I got used to ALWAYS use fully qualified and quoted paths. This makes your scripts error proof and thus your life much more easy.

andrecool-68

@dinkumoil I always use the portable version of Notepad ++, and try not to write full paths.

dinkumoil

@andrecool-68

You can use the Npp environment variable $(NPP_DIRECTORY).

andrecool-68

@dinkumoil said:

@andrecool-68

You can use the Npp environment variable $(NPP_DIRECTORY).

This is the most suitable way.

rinku singh

try

@echo off

taskkill /f /im notepad++.exe
“C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe”

cls

andrecool-68

@gurikbal-singh said:

try

@echo off

taskkill /f /im notepad++.exe
“C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe”

cls

I tried to get rid of it … and you offer me to return to this?

Meta Chuh

@andrecool-68

I tried to get rid of it … and you offer me to return to this?

the translator of @gurikbal-singh is on holiday 😁

Meta Chuh

@andrecool-68

by the way:

And how is such a combination of two code variants … does it violate the laws of criminal law?
<Command name="Restart" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">cmd /c taskkill /f /im notepad++.exe && start notepad++.exe</Command>

lol, no, everything is legal 😉

your version is correct, mine was wrong, as it keeps the cmd window open.
i just have forgotten the start command while typing, sorry 🙏

Ekopalypse

Just for completeness, there is also the $(NPP_FULL_FILE_PATH) variable.

andrecool-68

@Ekopalypse said:

Just for completeness, there is also the $(NPP_FULL_FILE_PATH) variable.

Please show me an example of your solution code.

Ekopalypse

@andrecool-68

I don’t have one, it was in response to your response about using $(NPP_DIRECTORY),
which would mean you need to concatenate directory and executable wheres $(NPP_FULL_FILE_PATH) is already the complete path.
Did I misunderstood something?

andrecool-68

@Ekopalypse I understood))