Running a macro on all the open docs ?.

Alex Sunny 0

Hello,

Is there a way to run a macro on all open documents? Currently I have to open each document to run a macro which is a pain. I’ve tried multi-selecting the tabs but that doesn’t work.

thanks
jackyjoy

Alan Kilborn

@Alex-Sunny-0

Short answer is No, but the longer answer is that you could probably write a PythonScript or maybe a NppExec script that could turn the answer into a Yes (but that’s a longer answer).

If you have interest in that, post back.

Robert Or Janet Diebel

@Alan-Kilborn Sure would like that ability.
Any plans?
Any help with work-arounds?

Thanx for all you do!

PeterJones

@Robert-Or-Janet-Diebel ,

The following script for the PythonScript plugin runs the same macro (called DoNothing) on all files open in either view of Notepad++.

You would have to edit the script to call the name of your Macro, as listed in your Macro menu.

# encoding=utf-8
"""in response to https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21663/
Run a macro on each open file
"""
from Npp import notepad

# store active tab in each View
keepBufferID = notepad.getCurrentBufferID()
docIndexes = [notepad.getCurrentDocIndex(v) for v in range(2)]

for filename, bufferID, index, view in notepad.getFiles():
    notepad.activateBufferID(bufferID)
    notepad.runMenuCommand("Macro", "DoNothing")

# restore active tab in each View
for v in range(2):
    notepad.activateIndex(v, docIndexes[v])
notepad.activateBufferID(keepBufferID)

Alan Kilborn

Peter’s script above is (mostly) fine, but I’ll offer a couple of comments:

I like to save/restore the active tab using a Python “context manager”. This is used by wrapping the code block that changes the active tab into a “with … :” block. The advantage of this approach is that the saving and restoring is integrated; you don’t have to remember to do the restoring, it just happens. My context-manager for this restores based upon “name” rather than index, so if the code wrapped by it changes the tab ordering, or closes/opens tabs, the restore can still work (within reason). I will be publishing this context-manager script soon as part of a larger script.
The above script won’t work in this scenario: The active tab is cloned and the view 1 cloned tab is active when the script is run – what happens here is that when the script has finished executing, the view 0 clone’s tab is left as the active one. I believe this is actually a bug in Notepad++ and I will be making an official bug report soon about this.