Display many Files in Filelist of Notepad++, but not open

Alfred Janssen

Hello.
I would like to display many files (*.PRG) in the Notepad++ file list, but not open them immediately. I only want the file to open when I double-click on it. Is this possible? Can anyone help me?
Best regards, Alfred

PeterJones

@Alfred-Janssen ,

I assume you mean you have the File > Open dialog window active, and you want to filter to only see *.prg. You do it the same way you do with any Open dialog in Windows, type in the filter.

For example, if your directory starts with 3 *.txt and 3 *.prg:

Then you can show only the *.prg by typing *.prg in the File Name box, and then hitting ENTER in the box to get it to apply the filter:

Alternately, if one of the built-in languages has prg in its default extensions (or you set the user ext for that language to include prg), then the filter pulldown on the right will have it. Or, if it doesn’t match any of the builtin languages, you can define a User Defined Language (UDL) that uses that extension. For example, I created a dummy UDL that I set its name to TmpPrg and gave it the prg extension, as shown here:

Then if I do File > Open, I can pull down the filter dropdown:

After I select the TmpProg (*.prg) from that list, then Windows automatically applies that filter for me: