Presume the second up arrow should be a down. Please add “▲first hit” and “▲last hit” to the search tool. The design is to allow this, but in an independent (and limited) way. You are talking about multiple instances of Notepad++. While launching two windows, I want the search tool to switch to the search for the active window.

As a long-time user of Notepad++ (so I think I have somewhat of a grasp of its design), I don’t see a lot of value there (sorry). No one will take you seriously if you jumble a bunch of stuff together in one issue.Īlso, I’ve read over your list of suggestions. Unfortunately, we’re finding that no matter how the save-options are defined, someone will think that NPP has done it completely wrong and not given the option they you are going to follow the advice given, you should create one issue per suggestion item.

(Alternately, change your workflow slightly: create the file in Windows Explorer with no extension, then right click and open-with Notepad++ or drag the file into the open Notepad++.) It’s a little extra work, but that will enable you to save a file with no extension.

However, if you then change Save as type to All types (*.*), and don’t type an extension, it will save the file with no extension.īd742425-f9dc-495f-b454-321fa4f5af73-image.png txt to the filename, making it blah.txt, which isn’t what I wanted. to try to convince it to use an empty extension: as shown in the screenshot above, it still appended. Knowing that typing your own extension (like blah.ext) will override the auto-extension, I tried a trick of typing blah. If you type no extension, it will take the first extension from the Save as type box:ĭ4585943-5e2b-4801-9c57-a82459467aef-image.png Since v7.8.7, even the new-style applies an extension based on the selected file type in the save/save-as dialog.

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