Feature request: tab names without file extensions

[fred9999]

Hi,

Thank you all who are involved in developing this fantastic tool!

I would propose a new feature that would benefit a lot of code writers - possibility to hide file extension names from tab name

Tab name now: filename.ino
Tab name after: filename

I have well over 10 C++ program files opened in tabs at the same time and frequently switching between them. Because there are so many of them all tabs are not visible at the same time so switching between them needs scrolling the tab list. Not showing file extension names makes tab names shorter and there would be more tabs visible at the same time which makes switching between them easier / faster.

Thank you in advance.

Kind regards,

Fred

[Alan Kilborn]

@fred9999 said in Feature request: tab names without file extensions:

Because there are so many of them all tabs are not visible at the same time so switching between them needs scrolling the tab list.

Change that “not visible at the same time” problem with:

[Alan Kilborn]

@fred9999 said in Feature request: tab names without file extensions:

I would propose a new feature that would benefit a lot of code writers - possibility to hide file extension names from tab name

The general “code writer” wouldn’t like/use this, IMO (30+ years as a “code writer”).

But I think others have mentioned this a few times in the past; it has never gained any “traction”, probably because of what I said in the previous paragraph.

Regardless, this is not the place for a “feature request”, simply because there is an official mechanism; see this site’s FAQ if you want to pursue it, officially.

[fred9999]

@Alan-Kilborn
Thank you for the quick reply, that helps.

Fred

[Protonus]

Came here to request the same thing. Most of my tabs are just text documents, so every tab that I save saying .txt is redundant / not necessary for me. Would love to save those 4 characters per tab.

[Mark Olson]

I’m not going to say this won’t happen, but I recently contributed a PR that tried to change the way filenames map to tab names, and it was pretty soundly rejected.
Granted, this seems like a less ambitious request than what I was trying to implement, but I think Don Ho is suspicious of efforts to change the tab bar.

[PeterJones]

@Protonus said in Feature request: tab names without file extensions:

Came here to request the same thing

See explaination in Feature Request FAQ

[Protonus]

@ Peter I did, and I also found and commented on the feature request, #13630 - unfortunately I apparently don’t have enough reputation here to actually post a link to it.

Unfortunately outside of reacting to, commenting on, or subscribing too the issues on github, there doesn’t seem to be any way to upvote / +1 them for prioritization etc, so it seemed a good idea to reply here too. I was honestly shocked to find this wasn’t already an issue just given how extremely user friendly and customizable the app already is. I came across this post in trying to find how to enable this, and I assume others may as well.

[PeterJones]

@Protonus said in Feature request: tab names without file extensions:

@ Peter I did, and I also found and commented on the feature request, #13630 - unfortunately I apparently don’t have enough reputation here to actually post a link to it.

You should now. But here is the link

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/13630

Unfortunately outside of reacting to, commenting on, or subscribing too the issues on github, there doesn’t seem to be any way to upvote / +1 them for prioritization etc

Those are the intended ways in GitHub repos to upvoted a request.

I was honestly shocked to find this wasn’t already an issue

But there is already an issue, as you just said.

I came across this post in trying to find how to enable this, and I assume others may as well

And now those future readers can go check the Issue that you mentioned. So that’s good.

My point of linking to the FAQ was to emphasize, as the FAQ does, that we here in the Forum are not the decision makers or influencers for new features.

And unfortunately, despite the amount of time and energy we pour into Notepad++ and its Community, the developer actively tells the regulars here that our opinions aren’t important to him, and he’ll often only consider acting on a request he deems unnecessary if enough random users ask for something: if one of us regulars goes to bat for a good idea, it doesn’t often seem to help.

So thank you for being one of the “random users” to go react to and/or comment on that request.

[Ilya Ginzburg]

@PeterJones said in Feature request: tab names without file extensions:

comment on that request

Another comment supporting this feature has been added to GitHub