As far as Save As, I was trying to save the tab files to a file type that only N++ will recognize so all I’ll have to do is click on the file instead of using Open With. That’s probably because you’ve edited change.log and Notepad++ is trying to save that file to the same directory where notepad++.exe lives: that’s often c:\Program Files\Notepad++\ or equivalent, and the Program Files hierarchy are often write-protected so that you won’t accidentally change critical application I guess I should be more clear. That doesn’t in any way affect whether or not you can open a file with Notepad++.Īlso, if I click on Save All, it asks if I want to use Admin. The File Type in that Save As dialog suggests reasonable extensions for that file type, and (in certain circumstances) will pick the first extension shown if you type a file name without typing an extension. Save As is used for giving a name to the file.
When I clicked Save As, I was looking for one that says N++ or something along those lines.
That’s the way Windows works, and has since Win 3.11, as far as I can remember. When you associate a file type (which Windows, for historical reasons, determines by file extension), then every file of that type is associated with Notepad++, not just one specific file. If you are dealing with the Windows Explorer (double-clicking files to get them open, or Right Clicking and selecting “Open With”), that’s Windows OS features and Windows OS knows nothing about “Tabs” in Notepad++. However, it changed all of my text files to open with N++. I changed one of the tab/files using ‘Open with’ to make N++ the default on the new tab/file I saved.
... this doesn’t mean that a.txt is now “attached to” or “associated with” or “saved with my b.txt Tab”. I could, if I wanted, move a.txt to the other view: If I close change.log (either clicking the ☒ on the tab, or through File > Close or equivalent while my cursor is in change.log), the other files will remain open: In this screenshot from my Notepad++ instance, I have two Views showing the one on the left has Peter's Scratchpad.md, a.txt, and change.log open (three separate, completely unrelated files!), and the one on the right just has b.txt open. Notepad++ doesn’t “group” or “associate” Tabs in the same view with each other: just because there are two or more Tabs in the same View doesn’t mean that those files in those Tabs are linked in any way. Each tab holds one file the file it contains is independent of any other file, whether it’s opened in a Tab in Notepad++ or not. You seem to be confusing that with how the OS perceives the file (“Open With”), which is something separate that I’ll get to in a bit.īack to Tabs: a Tab is a GUI container for the file. It’s what allows you to move things around inside Notepad++'s GUI to make it easier for you to do the edits you need. A Tab in Notepad++ is the GUI container for the file, it is not the file itself. Okay, now you’re confusing the things again. I changed one of the tab/files using ‘Open with’ … So if you have a pinned shortcut or desktop shortcut, you might want to check if there are unexpected command-line arguments in that/those shortcut(s). That said, I do remember some time back that certain users were finding that the change.log was being re-opened even when they had closed it, and it turned out that they had pinned a shortcut (either to their start menu or task bar) and/or desktop shortcut that included full\path\to\change.log as a command-line argument. The vast majority of people (in my experience, everyone except you and maybe one or two other people who have asked similar questions in the forum) is to close that file’s tab immediately, so that it’s not saved in the current session or re-opened the next time you open Notepad++. Notepad++'s default action (after an upgrade) is to open that change.log file so you can see what’s changed. Does the Changelog have a tab that is saved with my main tab?Ĭhange.log is a specific file that is shipped with Notepad++ to tell what’s been changed in the most recent version of Notepad++.