3. 🔦 menu - how to add separators?

🔦 menu - how to add separators?


  • menu > Run

    At this point, I have added my scripted items and now I have the question of how to add separators❓

    example of separators

    I tried to study the files of the «NotePad++» directory itself without any results❗

    Many thanx 🍻

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  • how to add separators

    Short answer: You cannot do it reasonably.

    But, why not ask about creating submenus here or in the Macro menu? Those would also be useful capabilities, perhaps even more so than separators.

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  • In the right-click context menu (contextMenu.xml), you can use <Item id="0"/> to include a separator. It would be nice if something like <Command id="0" /> or <Command/> would work as a separator.

    As an ugly kludge, <Command name="------------------" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">echo</Command> will provide a ------------------ entry in the menu, which kindof separates things.

    But yes, having separators and/or subfolders in the Run menu would be a nice feature request.

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  • @PeterJones said in 🔦 menu - how to add separators?:

    In the right-click context menu

    But as a note to future readers, the OP was not talking about the right-click context menu here.

    As an ugly kludge

    …for the Run menu… +1.

    However, as written by @PeterJones , if one actually clicks on the mock separator line, something like the following will result (at least it did for me):

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    A more harmless version would be to replace echo with something like cmd /c echo.. Other such possibilities exist as well, I’m sure.

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  • @PeterJones

    Hi, none of the options offered worked.:
    <Item id="0"/>, <Command id="0" />, <Command/>.
    The question was about a “menu” with features (which is on top of the IDE).

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  • As said by @Alan-Kilborn this isn’t currently possible.
    You might consider asking for a new feature that would allow
    inserting separators in Run menu.

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  • @Сергей-Друзь said in 🔦 menu - how to add separators?:

    none of the options offered worked.:
    <Item id="0"/>, <Command id="0" />, <Command/>.

    Those were all things I tried, and I had implied that they didn’t work (because I said “it would be nice if … would work”), but with the language barrier (since English probably isn’t your native lanugage), I should have said that more directly. Sorry.

    And, as I said,

    As an ugly kludge, <Command name="------------------" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">echo</Command> will provide a ------------------ entry in the menu, which kindof separates things.

    I provided that “kludge” (which is slang for a workaround or a way to get around a limitation) so that it would have a similar functionality in the menu suggested, because I saw that the syntax that “would be nice to work” didn’t work. By calling it a “kludge”, I was admitting it wasn’t a perfect solution, but that it might work well enough for the short-term.

    And then I said,

    having separators and/or subfolders in the Run menu would be a nice feature request.

    where I linked to the FAQ that describes how to make a feature request, which was the hint that if you wanted that behavior, you would have to request that feature, as @Ekopalypse just repeated for you.

    So, to be very direct this time: the feature you asked about does not exist. If you want that feature, you will have to follow the instructions in the FAQ that both @Ekopalypse and I linked to in order to possibly get that feature implemented. That feature may or may not ever be implemented. While waiting for a decision (and if it never is), you might want to use my “kludge”, as imperfect as it is, to give you something close to what you want.

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