I've installed Notepad plus 4.0.2 with the explorer context menu option enabled. The context menu option "Edit with Notepad++" appears for almost all file types and works great, but it doesn't appear for .url files. Anybody know how I can get "Edit with Notepad++" to appear when I right click .url files?
Thanks!
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I guess nobody else is experiencing this behavior?
I've tried right clicking a ton of other file types (.txt, .vbs, .bat, .cmd, etc etc) and they all show "Edit with Notepad++" when I right click, however, files ending with .url still don't have the option.
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I appreciate the response, but you are pretty far off the mark.
I keep all my bookmarks in a directory on my server. They are all files that end with ".url". If a web url changes, I'll open the file in notepad and update the url that is inside. Hence wanting to have the "Edit with Notepad++" show up when I right click a ".url" file.
I found a workaround by putting a Notepad++ shortcut in my "SendTo" folder. So now I can send any file to Notepad++.
I don't think what I am trying to accomplish is really that complex; I mean someone has already associated the "Edit with Notepad++" with ".txt" files and ".vbs" files... all I want to do is associate that context menu entry with ".url" files.
The fact that it's ".url" files doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. I mean, if I have a bunch of text files that end with ".xyz" and I would like "Edit with Notepad++" to show up in the context menu, my question would be the same. Why files are named ".xyz" or what I am doing with files named ".xyz" is irrelevant.
I guess a more appropriate subject line for my post would have been "Creating the 'Edit with Notepad++' context menu entry for custom file extensions"--that's all I'm trying to accomplish.
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This doesn't make sense to me. I can see editing local HTML files (.htm, html, etc.) but a url is just a link to a file that is usually online. One almost never has rights to edit such files.
If it is local, you could browse to it and edit it.
If it is on the Internet, you could open the URL in your browser, use the "File > Save Page As..." or equivalent command, save the HTML code to a file local to your hard drive, then edit _that_ file -- and you should see the "Edit with Notepad++" for it in Windows Explorer. --Joel
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Hello,
I've installed Notepad plus 4.0.2 with the explorer context menu option enabled. The context menu option "Edit with Notepad++" appears for almost all file types and works great, but it doesn't appear for .url files. Anybody know how I can get "Edit with Notepad++" to appear when I right click .url files?
Thanks!
I guess nobody else is experiencing this behavior?
I've tried right clicking a ton of other file types (.txt, .vbs, .bat, .cmd, etc etc) and they all show "Edit with Notepad++" when I right click, however, files ending with .url still don't have the option.
I appreciate the response, but you are pretty far off the mark.
I keep all my bookmarks in a directory on my server. They are all files that end with ".url". If a web url changes, I'll open the file in notepad and update the url that is inside. Hence wanting to have the "Edit with Notepad++" show up when I right click a ".url" file.
I found a workaround by putting a Notepad++ shortcut in my "SendTo" folder. So now I can send any file to Notepad++.
I don't think what I am trying to accomplish is really that complex; I mean someone has already associated the "Edit with Notepad++" with ".txt" files and ".vbs" files... all I want to do is associate that context menu entry with ".url" files.
The fact that it's ".url" files doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. I mean, if I have a bunch of text files that end with ".xyz" and I would like "Edit with Notepad++" to show up in the context menu, my question would be the same. Why files are named ".xyz" or what I am doing with files named ".xyz" is irrelevant.
I guess a more appropriate subject line for my post would have been "Creating the 'Edit with Notepad++' context menu entry for custom file extensions"--that's all I'm trying to accomplish.
This doesn't make sense to me. I can see editing local HTML files (.htm, html, etc.) but a url is just a link to a file that is usually online. One almost never has rights to edit such files.
If it is local, you could browse to it and edit it.
If it is on the Internet, you could open the URL in your browser, use the "File > Save Page As..." or equivalent command, save the HTML code to a file local to your hard drive, then edit _that_ file -- and you should see the "Edit with Notepad++" for it in Windows Explorer. --Joel