Paul Gregory - 2008-05-16

Hi.

Close All But Me is great, but I'm used to two extra tab closing options in other software and I'd like to see them in Notepad++.

The first new item in the tab context menu would be "Close Left Tabs". When clicked, all tabs to the left of that tab are closed.
The second would be the same for tabs to the right.

I'm not particularly hung up on the wording - Directory Opus uses the text "Close Tabs to Left", Tab Mix Plus for Firefox uses "Close Left Tabs". I guess "Close tabs to left of me" would be consistent with the existing N++ options.

You could have smarts to hide/gray if it's already the leftmost or rightmost tab, but as "Close all but me" is still active when only one tab is open I guess it's not essential.

Together with the existing ability to move tabs about, this simple pair of features would provide a quick way of closing some but not all of the open tabs.