open selected file in default application
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@Edificio-Rascacielos-Tenerife said in open selected file in default application:
Why don’t you put this in the contextual menu for the npp version ? f
Two reasons.
First, because the “you” you are talking to are fellow Notepad++ users; we aren’t employees of the Notepad++ Corporation (which doesn’t exist); while some of us have contributed to the codebase, mostly, we are just users, like you.
Second, the development team (and especially the lead developer) have made Notepad++ highly configurable; as they cannot read the mind of every single user to know exactly how each individual wants all the context menus, and because multiple users disagree on what they want = you might want OpenWithDefaultApp in the context menu by default, but somebody else, or thousands of somebody else, might not want something so useless cluttering the already-full context menu; it’s a matter of opinion. So the developers put in what they think are reasonable defaults, and make it configurable. And they don’t consider editing a configuration file to be “programming”, so they don’t expect that it would be too difficult, especially when people in this forum give you the step-by-step instructions on how to do it, tailored to your individual desires.
Done !
Then reopen the program all began to work.Glad it’s working for you.
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Didn’t there used to be such an thing, in an earlier version of Notepad++? I can’t find it now anywhere in 7.8.5.
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@PeterJones said in open selected file in default application:
@Edificio-Rascacielos-Tenerife said in open selected file in default application:
Why don’t you put this in the contextual menu for the npp version ? f
Two reasons.
First, because the “you” you are talking to are fellow Notepad++ users; we aren’t employees of the Notepad++ Corporation (which doesn’t exist); while some of us have contributed to the codebase, mostly, we are just users, like you.
Second, the development team (and especially the lead developer) have made Notepad++ highly configurable; as they cannot read the mind of every single user to know exactly how each individual wants all the context menus, and because multiple users disagree on what they want = you might want OpenWithDefaultApp in the context menu by default, but somebody else, or thousands of somebody else, might not want something so useless cluttering the already-full context menu; it’s a matter of opinion. So the developers put in what they think are reasonable defaults, and make it configurable. And they don’t consider editing a configuration file to be “programming”, so they don’t expect that it would be too difficult, especially when people in this forum give you the step-by-step instructions on how to do it, tailored to your individual desires.
Done !
Then reopen the program all began to work.Glad it’s working for you.
Owww Peter. Understood. For me that feature is important because let me use the txt file like a connecting panel with everything. The url are native clickable, so I use clickable folder (by selection) , clickable file.
From the txt file I can go everywhere.
But that is my freedom now.
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Cross-link to similar info: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19192/launch-in-default-web-browser
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