Request: Open all files in a directory (drag)
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I often find myself dragging files into Notepad++ to open, and it would be a handy time-saver to be able to drag an entire directory in.
Currently if you try, an error dialog pops up saying "Cannot open file R:\directoryname".
Could this instead load all the files from that directory?
Better yet, could this load all the files that have recognised extensions (ie ignoring .gif files etc)? That might be a config option. I guess "recursive" would be a useful setting also.
Notepad++ is great and keeps getting better, btw.
Did you try dragging mulitple files at once?
Just select all files in the directory in Eplorer (CTRL+A) and drag them to NP++.
You might as well sort on "registered file type" first.
There is, unfortunately, no way I know to sort files in Explorer by their real extension.
Yes, dragging multiple files works brilliantly and I already do that often.
But obviously that means:
1) Click on directory to open it
2) Selecting all the files I want
3) Drag files to NP++
What I want to instead is:
1) Drag directory to NP++
purely because it saves two steps. If I can save the filtering step too, so much the better.
If NP++ opened all files whenever passed a directory name, it should also be possible to add a "Open contents in Notepad++" right click context menu action to folders, which would be neat.
(Incidentally, I *can* sort files by their real extension, but that's because I use Directory Opus as my file manager rather than Explorer.)