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    • Ekopalypse
      Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn last edited by

      put the code to do this in its “startup” script.

      preferable a “user” startup.py and in addition one needs to
      change the PS configuration from LAZY to ATSTARTUP.

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      • Alan Kilborn
        Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse last edited by

        Probably @Ekopalypse will come up with a nice, short, fully working example for the OP. :-)

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        • Ekopalypse
          Ekopalypse last edited by

          If OP wants to go that way - maybe. ;-D

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          • Alan Kilborn
            Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse last edited by

            @Ekopalypse

            It would serve as a good example of “adding a custom command line parameter to Notepad++” for future readers as well, who might have different need than “tail”.

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            • Ekopalypse
              Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn last edited by

              @Alan-Kilborn

              the issue is, that you cannot set a custom parameter but the question mark seems to work.
              But I haven’t really checked the commandline code to see if there is
              a possible workaround.

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              • Alan Kilborn
                Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse last edited by

                @Ekopalypse

                you cannot set a custom parameter but the question mark seems to work.

                Ah.

                Presuming it worked more fully, more questions arise:

                • I have a Explorer right-click “edit with N++” thing that I often use to pull into an existing N++ instance already running. If one queried the command line after that, would they see the original command line, or the one from the right-click?

                • Does a multiple instance invoked from the first instance impact?

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                • Ekopalypse
                  Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn last edited by Ekopalypse

                  @Alan-Kilborn

                  you query the current instance, so you should always get the
                  commandline parameters associated whit this instance,
                  regardless if multiInst is used or not.

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                  • Alan Kilborn
                    Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse last edited by

                    @Ekopalypse

                    But I mean, to follow the OP’s example, maybe I have N++ running then I next want to run tail on a file, so I use Explorer with my special “tail with Notepad++” rightclick. I guess there would be no good way to do the trapping with P.S., even if Notepad++ interface to get the command line was better than it is.

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                    • Ekopalypse
                      Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                      @Alan-Kilborn

                      maybe I’m, again, not seeing the wood because of the trees.
                      Let me try to explain what I understand so far.

                      There is an running (or not as it doesn’t matter from my understanding) npp instance.
                      Now you click on the explorer context menu “open with npp in tail mode”.
                      This shortcut must be configured, of course, with something like npp -multiInst -?
                      If that new instance starts up it will execute startup.py
                      And here we would check against the -? flag and act accordingly.

                      Is that what you are talking about or do I have a plank at my head?

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                      • Ekopalypse
                        Ekopalypse last edited by Ekopalypse

                        I was wrong, there is a way to provide user parameters.

                        By this we could start npp with something like notepad++.exe -multiInst -nosession -z -tailmode

                        and would be able to get it up and running

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                        • Ekopalypse
                          Ekopalypse last edited by Ekopalypse

                          This PS, saved as startup.py (user NOT machine and PS configuration changed from LAZY to ATSTARTUP) should do the trick

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                          from Npp import notepad, MENUCOMMAND
                          if '-tailmode' in notepad.getCommandLine():
                              notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.VIEW_MONITORING)
                          

                          and npp like this notepad++.exe -multiInst -nosession "FULL_PATH_OF_THE_FILE" -z -tailmode

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