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    • Martin OlssonM
      Martin Olsson
      last edited by

      Feature request:

      In Windows 11 I have pinned Notepad++ to my taskbar.
      Left-clicking this icon opens the Notepad++ window if already running, otherwise the app is started.
      All good.

      When clicking this icon with the middle mouse button, I want my already running Notepad++ to open up with a New document tab in focus, ready for my notes immediately.

      Right now when I want to quickly start a notepad to scribble down some notes, the already running Notepad++ opens up but only show me my current tabs. I have to manually click the [New] button before I can start writing my new notes.

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @Martin Olsson
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        @martin-olsson

        Interesting idea. I hadn’t ever really thought about an app customizing the middle-click-on-task-bar, but it’s presumably feasible.

        As fellow users, we aren’t the ones who implement feature requests. See Feature Request FAQ

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn
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          Official feature request is here: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/11725

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          • Robert CarnegieR
            Robert Carnegie @Martin Olsson
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            @martin-olsson This is a possible candidate for using a third-party “macro” program to create specific behaviour on your computer. I use a downloaded tool called “AutoHotkey” but I haven’t created with it recently.

            As far as I remember, things that an AutoHotkey macro can do include:
            Read the title bar of a program
            Bring a program (Notepad++) to foreground and out of being minimized
            Send a keystroke to a program (Ctrl N new document)

            So you could have an icon on your screen that does all of that from one click.

            Other options are possible, such as always waiting for YOU to foreground Notepad++ and THEN send Ctrl N each time, or, to see if the title bar says “new” for a newly created document already.

            Or it could just make your middle mouse button send Ctrl N.

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