Almost all other editors and IDEs follow standard Windows keymapping conventions.
This is the only annoyance I'm having with Notepad++, nothing happens when I press Ctrl-F4.
A nive to have feature would be support (emulation) for keymappings on other editors and IDEs and to provide better keymapping editor to save and load diferent keymappings.
--Jari
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I know I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but seriously. Why no CTRL-F4 support to close an open document. Only CTRL-W.
Seriously. What's the deal. Is this a HUUUGGE problem? Or are you just trying to torture us Windows users because we use Windows and don't use Linux and we'll learn to love linux because we FINALLY get in the habit of using CTRL-W to close documents. If the software I wanted to run would run on Linux, I'd switch in a minute. Ever try to play "No One Lives Forever" on Linux? Or "F.E.A.R"? Or Half-Life 2? Or run CorelDraw? And don't tell me the alternatives on Linux are just as good. Even if they were, I already know how to use these apps and like them just fine, thanks very much.
So, I'm a Windows user, I would much rather use Linux, but again, the software I want to run doesn't run on Linux.
Please implement standard Windows keystrokes, like CTRL-F4. Seriously. Notepad++ is a Windows program. It runs on Windows. It uses a lot of the fancy built-in controls that are included in the Windows OS. If you're all about the Linux, encourage the use of the keyboard instead of the mouse, and you might make command line nerds out of all of us yet... but let us use the key combos we've been using for, oh FIFTEEN YEARS, and don't force us to change, please. Seriously.
The F4 key on my old IBM 101 key keyboard (NO frikkin' windows keys) is isolated at the right-end of the row of function keys. Easy to find without looking. W is crammed in the middle of other keys, where I might hit CTRL-Q or CTRL-S or whatever else. CTRL-F4 is out of the way, and if I accidentally hit CTRL-F3, nothing bad happens. I don't want to learn to use CTRL-W because it's not a particularly user friendly keystroke.
Great product, but this lack of CTRL-F4 support just pisses me off a little every time I use it. I feel like Oliver Twist in the orphanage, asking for more gruel. Notepad++ isn't tasteless gruel... but I feel like asking for CTRL-F4 is going to get "you should be happy how much effort the developer puts into this project!!!" and I truly am.
But WHY still no CTRL-F4 support. Why?
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> Or are you just trying to torture us Windows users because we use Windows
> and don't use Linux and we'll learn to love linux
> because we FINALLY get in the habit of using CTRL-W to close documents.
:-D
That's a good one, really.
> Please implement standard Windows keystrokes, like CTRL-F4. Seriously.
I don't remember in which version, but before the shorcut mapper was implemented, Ctrl+F4 and Ctrl+W were both used. The shorcut mapper makes unnecessary for the existing of both shortcuts, and also impose the constraint of unique shortcut per command. I choosed one of both shortcuts by guesswork (since I don't use this shortcut), so it's not kind of conspiracy to transform Windows users to Linux ones :)
Seriously, you can use shortcut mapper to change this shortcut from CTRL-W to CTRL-F4.
But why don't you just change this shortcut, once and forever? Why?
:)
Don
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Yeah, I posted that "thing" there, whining about CTRL-F4. I am having a rough week, and sometimes, the ability to touch-type quickly is a curse, for me, and others.
I apologize... I support deletion of that post, (2007-01-19 20:29) and will try to remember not to post when I'm pissed off at the world, especially when Notepad++ makes otherwise painful text editing tasks less so.
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To the OP: I tried the re-map of ^W to ^F4, and it works a dream.
Settings.ShortCutMapper.3rd line, and edit to ^F4, and thereafter
that closes your window.
Only minor minus to this, is you'll need to replace/update the shortcuts.xml file
on every new release.
Think of what you'll be able to do, with all that saved time!! :)
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> Only minor minus to this, is you'll need to replace/update the shortcuts.xml file
> on every new release.
It's not true.
The installer doesn't overwrite the xml files.
So if you want to keep your setting, just install new Notepad++ release on your Notepad++ directory without uninstalling the old version.
Don
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> Only minor minus to this, is you'll need to replace/update the shortcuts.xml file
> on every new release.
>It's not true.
>The installer doesn't overwrite the xml files.
>So if you want to keep your setting, just install new Notepad++ release on your Notepad++ >directory without uninstalling the old version.
Correct, but anyone using the Download/Un-Zip install pathway (not the full installer)
will have to take care, as the ZIP file contains shortcuts.xml
Most users will be like me, and keep a copy of their modified files, in
a separate directory, as a reference and backup - right ? :)
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I second this request; I use CTRL-F4 reflexively when I want to close a document, and of all the tools I use regularly, only Notepad++ doesn't support it.
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I love Notepad++, but it's very annoying that <b>"Ctrl + F4"</b> doesn't do work. It should do the same what <b>"Ctrl + W"</b> or clicking with the middle mouse button the the tab does.
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"ctrl + w" is more convinient than "alt+f4", IMHO, but both variant should be possible.
AS FOR ME: I simple do DBL-CLICK on the corresponding TAB! And it is VERY convinient/useful/fast!!!
P.S: This option should be set in "true" in "settings -> preferencse -> global".
Eugene
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Almost all other editors and IDEs follow standard Windows keymapping conventions.
This is the only annoyance I'm having with Notepad++, nothing happens when I press Ctrl-F4.
A nive to have feature would be support (emulation) for keymappings on other editors and IDEs and to provide better keymapping editor to save and load diferent keymappings.
--Jari
I know I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but seriously. Why no CTRL-F4 support to close an open document. Only CTRL-W.
Seriously. What's the deal. Is this a HUUUGGE problem? Or are you just trying to torture us Windows users because we use Windows and don't use Linux and we'll learn to love linux because we FINALLY get in the habit of using CTRL-W to close documents. If the software I wanted to run would run on Linux, I'd switch in a minute. Ever try to play "No One Lives Forever" on Linux? Or "F.E.A.R"? Or Half-Life 2? Or run CorelDraw? And don't tell me the alternatives on Linux are just as good. Even if they were, I already know how to use these apps and like them just fine, thanks very much.
So, I'm a Windows user, I would much rather use Linux, but again, the software I want to run doesn't run on Linux.
Please implement standard Windows keystrokes, like CTRL-F4. Seriously. Notepad++ is a Windows program. It runs on Windows. It uses a lot of the fancy built-in controls that are included in the Windows OS. If you're all about the Linux, encourage the use of the keyboard instead of the mouse, and you might make command line nerds out of all of us yet... but let us use the key combos we've been using for, oh FIFTEEN YEARS, and don't force us to change, please. Seriously.
The F4 key on my old IBM 101 key keyboard (NO frikkin' windows keys) is isolated at the right-end of the row of function keys. Easy to find without looking. W is crammed in the middle of other keys, where I might hit CTRL-Q or CTRL-S or whatever else. CTRL-F4 is out of the way, and if I accidentally hit CTRL-F3, nothing bad happens. I don't want to learn to use CTRL-W because it's not a particularly user friendly keystroke.
Great product, but this lack of CTRL-F4 support just pisses me off a little every time I use it. I feel like Oliver Twist in the orphanage, asking for more gruel. Notepad++ isn't tasteless gruel... but I feel like asking for CTRL-F4 is going to get "you should be happy how much effort the developer puts into this project!!!" and I truly am.
But WHY still no CTRL-F4 support. Why?
> Or are you just trying to torture us Windows users because we use Windows
> and don't use Linux and we'll learn to love linux
> because we FINALLY get in the habit of using CTRL-W to close documents.
:-D
That's a good one, really.
> Please implement standard Windows keystrokes, like CTRL-F4. Seriously.
I don't remember in which version, but before the shorcut mapper was implemented, Ctrl+F4 and Ctrl+W were both used. The shorcut mapper makes unnecessary for the existing of both shortcuts, and also impose the constraint of unique shortcut per command. I choosed one of both shortcuts by guesswork (since I don't use this shortcut), so it's not kind of conspiracy to transform Windows users to Linux ones :)
Seriously, you can use shortcut mapper to change this shortcut from CTRL-W to CTRL-F4.
But why don't you just change this shortcut, once and forever? Why?
:)
Don
Yeah, I posted that "thing" there, whining about CTRL-F4. I am having a rough week, and sometimes, the ability to touch-type quickly is a curse, for me, and others.
I apologize... I support deletion of that post, (2007-01-19 20:29) and will try to remember not to post when I'm pissed off at the world, especially when Notepad++ makes otherwise painful text editing tasks less so.
Only the spam will be removed from the forum.
Your previous post made me smile (not for your pain), so no problemo.
Don
To the OP: I tried the re-map of ^W to ^F4, and it works a dream.
Settings.ShortCutMapper.3rd line, and edit to ^F4, and thereafter
that closes your window.
Only minor minus to this, is you'll need to replace/update the shortcuts.xml file
on every new release.
Think of what you'll be able to do, with all that saved time!! :)
> Only minor minus to this, is you'll need to replace/update the shortcuts.xml file
> on every new release.
It's not true.
The installer doesn't overwrite the xml files.
So if you want to keep your setting, just install new Notepad++ release on your Notepad++ directory without uninstalling the old version.
Don
> Only minor minus to this, is you'll need to replace/update the shortcuts.xml file
> on every new release.
>It's not true.
>The installer doesn't overwrite the xml files.
>So if you want to keep your setting, just install new Notepad++ release on your Notepad++ >directory without uninstalling the old version.
Correct, but anyone using the Download/Un-Zip install pathway (not the full installer)
will have to take care, as the ZIP file contains shortcuts.xml
Most users will be like me, and keep a copy of their modified files, in
a separate directory, as a reference and backup - right ? :)
I second this request; I use CTRL-F4 reflexively when I want to close a document, and of all the tools I use regularly, only Notepad++ doesn't support it.
NP++ seems to follow the other windows standard,
where ^W closes that tab ( see Acrobat, Firefox.. )
That said, when I try those two with ^F4, that also
close document/tab.
Perhaps the ideal is support of BOTH, would be able to
a) keep ^W for those that use it now
b) Add ^F4 for those that are used to that..
-jg
yeah, i'd like to see Ctrl-F4 to close current doc implemented as well
Following the shortcuts list (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/shortcuts.php) Ctrl-F4 should work - but as of version 3.9. it still doesn't.
Manfred
I love Notepad++, but it's very annoying that <b>"Ctrl + F4"</b> doesn't do work. It should do the same what <b>"Ctrl + W"</b> or clicking with the middle mouse button the the tab does.
You can re-config shotcut mapper to change from Ctrl-W to Ctrl-F4.
But I'd like both were supported too.
Settings / Shotcut Mapper...
In Opera I use mouse flipback (right button down + leftclick) to close a page. Would be nice to be able to do the same in N++ !
About Ctrl-F4 yes, you have my points for this wish!
I also want the CTRL-F4 ;-)
hmm...
"ctrl + w" is more convinient than "alt+f4", IMHO, but both variant should be possible.
AS FOR ME: I simple do DBL-CLICK on the corresponding TAB! And it is VERY convinient/useful/fast!!!
P.S: This option should be set in "true" in "settings -> preferencse -> global".
Eugene