Hi
I love Notepad++ and have almost entirely transitioned to using it for my text-based editing (Actionscript, css, html, .bat etc) Thanks for a great job.
I would like to request that the next release fix a small flaw in the File menu that is irritating me.
Most apps will allow you to go Alt-F O and that will bring up the Open File dialog box.
Notepad++ has two shortcuts assigned to O : "Open" and "Close All". I would greatly appreciate if close all did not share the same shortcut (I notice that E is available.)
So, in summary, I would love to see Notepad_plus.rc 's relevant line change to
MENUITEM "Clos&e All", IDM_FILE_CLOSEALL
Thanks for your consideration
Jim
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Back up the Notepad++.exe file! Make two copies, one to edit. Start Notepad++, open the copy of Notepad++.exe that you will change -- you can't edit the original while you are using it! -- and switch to Hex Edit mode via the "View in Hex" button on the toolbar.
Open a search dialog (I use ctrl-F), select "ANSI String" from the "Data type:" dropdown combobox, click in the search field and type "Cl&ose All". Now convert it to hex by selecting "Hexadecimal" in the Data type:" dropdown combobox. Click in the search field again and add double zeroes so that it looks like this:
(Unfortunately you can't paste the above into the field without it changing.)
Click "Find Next". When it has found the text, click in the right-hand part (called "Dump") where the text is displayed. Put the cursor on the left side of the '&' and type 'o', right-arrow, 's', right-arrow, '&', and one last right-arrow just to be safe.
Save the file, then close it. Exit Notepad++, copy the changed file over your Notepad++.exe (if you haven't made a backup of the original, don't come limping to me if this doesn't work!) and then try it out.
I suggest you post a change request in the tracker. If this doesn't get changed in the original, you'll have to repeat the process every time you upgrade. --Joel
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Hi
I love Notepad++ and have almost entirely transitioned to using it for my text-based editing (Actionscript, css, html, .bat etc) Thanks for a great job.
I would like to request that the next release fix a small flaw in the File menu that is irritating me.
Most apps will allow you to go Alt-F O and that will bring up the Open File dialog box.
Notepad++ has two shortcuts assigned to O : "Open" and "Close All". I would greatly appreciate if close all did not share the same shortcut (I notice that E is available.)
So, in summary, I would love to see Notepad_plus.rc 's relevant line change to
MENUITEM "Clos&e All", IDM_FILE_CLOSEALL
Thanks for your consideration
Jim
Meanwhile, you can use Notepad++ with the HexEditor plugin to change this.
The HexEditor.dll plugin is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins if you don't already have the latest version.
Back up the Notepad++.exe file! Make two copies, one to edit. Start Notepad++, open the copy of Notepad++.exe that you will change -- you can't edit the original while you are using it! -- and switch to Hex Edit mode via the "View in Hex" button on the toolbar.
Open a search dialog (I use ctrl-F), select "ANSI String" from the "Data type:" dropdown combobox, click in the search field and type "Cl&ose All". Now convert it to hex by selecting "Hexadecimal" in the Data type:" dropdown combobox. Click in the search field again and add double zeroes so that it looks like this:
43 00 6c 00 26 00 6f 00 73 00 65 00 20 00 41 00 6c 00 6c
(Unfortunately you can't paste the above into the field without it changing.)
Click "Find Next". When it has found the text, click in the right-hand part (called "Dump") where the text is displayed. Put the cursor on the left side of the '&' and type 'o', right-arrow, 's', right-arrow, '&', and one last right-arrow just to be safe.
Save the file, then close it. Exit Notepad++, copy the changed file over your Notepad++.exe (if you haven't made a backup of the original, don't come limping to me if this doesn't work!) and then try it out.
I suggest you post a change request in the tracker. If this doesn't get changed in the original, you'll have to repeat the process every time you upgrade. --Joel
It'll be fixed in the next version.
Don