Open text file and jump to the end

Rahan Bölzer

Hey Guys, can i open a text file like a log File and jump automaticly to the end of the file?
Maybe with a aditional parameter. Or with nen start macro.
I know i can press Strg+End, but other people dont know this.

PeterJones

@Rahan-Bölzer ,

That feature is not built into Notepad++ as far as I am aware.

To get an “[on] start macro”, you could use a plugin like PythonScript, and add editor.documentEnd() to startup.py, with the PythonScript > Configuration setting Initialisation: ATSTARTUP

<edit>: That will only get it in the first active window. If you also want it every time you load a new file, you’d also have to define a callback for NOTIFICATION.FILEOPENED (there are some examples of callbacks in the PythonScript docs after you install the plugin)</edit>

Alan Kilborn

@Rahan-Bölzer said in Open text file and jump to the end:

I know i can press Strg+End, but other people dont know this.

I think you mean Shift+End , but it could be that “Strg” is a non-English keyboard thing that I’ve never heard of.

Anyway, Shift+End is a keycombo that works in most Windows programs – wouldn’t it be a good idea to educate other people about how things work?
That seems to me like the best solution.

PeterJones

@Alan-Kilborn said in Open text file and jump to the end:

I think you mean Shift+End

I think you mean Ctrl+End. By default, Shift+End selects to the end of the line. By default, Ctrl+End moves the cursor to the end of the document

Alan Kilborn

@PeterJones said in Open text file and jump to the end:

I think you mean Ctrl+End

Yep, oops.

That shows how little I think about it – I just DO IT!
If you learn it and train yourself in its use early on, it becomes second-nature muscle-memory.
One more argument for educating the masses.

(I think I was thrown in what I was typing by OP’s use of “Strg” which made me think of “Shift”).

Regardless, where I said Shift in my previous post, replace with Ctrl !
Sorry.

PeterJones

@Alan-Kilborn said in Open text file and jump to the end:

it could be that “Strg” is a non-English keyboard

Specifically, according to a quick search, Wiki says it’s German keyboards, being the abbreviation for “Steuerung”.

Alan Kilborn

@PeterJones said in Open text file and jump to the end:

Wiki says it’s…

The key part of that:

…(thus e.g. “Ctrl” is translated to its German equivalent “Strg”, for Steuerung).

Michael Vincent

@Rahan-Bölzer said in Open text file and jump to the end:

and jump automaticly to the end of the file

It’s a bit “hacky”, but could you just use the -n command line argument and put in a ridiculously large number (i.e., greater than the number of lines in your file)?

For me, opening a 2827 line file with:

notepad++.exe -n1000000000 file.txt

puts the cursor on the last line of that file.

Note: Windows 10 64-bit, Notepad++ 7.9 64-bit

Cheers.

Alan Kilborn

@Michael-Vincent said in Open text file and jump to the end:

It’s a bit “hacky”, but could you just use the -n command line argument

I 💙 this solution.
I don’t see it as “hacky”.
Well…
I don’t see it that way because we’re all about “hacks” here. :-)

Michael Vincent

@Alan-Kilborn said in Open text file and jump to the end:

I don’t see it as “hacky”.

I was hoping -1 (negative one) would be like “last array element” and bring me to the last line, but it didn’t work. I would think that would be “less hacky”.

:-)

Cheers.