Have a look at (menu) Settings -> Preferences -> (register) General -> (group box) Tab Bar -> Lock (no drag and drop). If this option is ticked you have to untick it to get back tabs dragging feature.

@Joshua-Hartwell250 said:

I update it whenever it ask

Maybe not such a great plan…otherwise one of these days your face is going to look like the face on your avatar (like when your plugins go missing). :-)

Could you please prompt for updates when I go to close the window rather than when I open it?

If you catch my hint above, you would turn off the auto-update prompt…if you feel you must persist however, the correct place to make feature/change requests is here.

Hi, @peterjones,

About the FAQ title : Your wish is granted ;-))

Cheers,

guy038

Nothing more to say than in the other thread you opened.

Since this is the support forum for Notepad++ driven by volunteers which are not involved into its development, your request presumably will not have the intended effect.

You should read this FAQ Desk entry to learn how to file a feature request.

@Meta-Chuh

actually using normal text never worked - the issue was that I didn’t realize that it was not set to my UDL, where it worked always. :-(

Eko

@Eko-palypse
you don’t seem to be the default one question pass-by newbie anyways.
more like a future regular, considering your interest in more than just your own np++ needs.

@Terry-R
you looked like a regular from your first day on, so you basically never were a newbie ;-)
more like someone who was there from the beginning, knows all non written rules, conduct codes of regulars, and you just posted again 7 months ago after a long long vacation

@Hannes-Bend said:

lower…40 beats per minute if the user experiences a personalized color

LOL…sounds like some sort of “human hibernation”…is it cold in the room too?

@Scott-Sumner

I think you are right - it is probably already enabled.

Eko

I implemented the “multiple independent npp exe + settings directories”, and after dealing with some problems, it now seems to be working fine.

The two shortcuts needed to have the -multiInst cmd line argument so I could have both instances running simult’y, and ability to freely start them in either order.

At first the instances shared things like closed files history and search phrases history. I had to approximately figure out the settings files storage and fetching rules to disentangle them. It was a consequence of my having ‘settings on cloud’ (Settings|Prefs|Cloud) feature enabled (and pointing to a local subdirectory, not an internet storage site). The two instances were using a reference to the same ‘cloud’ subdir. In one of my indep. instance directories, when i changed to ‘no cloud’, on next restart I saw a bunch of settings & styles were no longer in effect; i had to do some manual xml file overwriting to recover. (I was a bit lucky, as I hadn’t backed everything up into a dedicated do-not-touch backup).

Both instances still point to the same projects (in workspace) file, but I’m fine with that for now.

I learned stuff I didn’t realize about the relationship between shortcuts in (Win 7 pro) Start menu vs. taskbar: changes to the former don’t automagically xfer to latter; gotta (taskbar) unpin and repin.

It took a while but things seem ok now.

I’ll close by repeating: terrific multi sess mgmt out of the box is a good thing, and, npp would have it with only a minor change.

Thanks, it all works now!

Please read https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16595/report-bug-when-closing-an-edited-file-the-alert-message-box-shows-str_replace-instead-of-real-file-name/2 – the bug report has already been made, and there’s a workaround/manual fix that I reference in that other thread.

@PeterJones said:

I hope you’re talking about named and saved files

We are probably NOT talking about that, because people haven’t yet learned (and won’t) that you shouldn’t fly that way…

…File menu, there is usually a section that includes the names of recent files; there are also entries such as “Restore Recent Closed File” and “Open All Recent Files”

Yes, but I don’t believe these handle unnamed “new #” files…

I’m waiting until the new plugins locations have stabilized before I upgrade beyond my v7.5.8

+1 (or more). For myself, I’ll probably give it 3-6 months beyond the point where we don’t see half-a-dozen-plus new postings here concerning the new state of plugins (which are an instant click-thru-to-next-posting for me, BTW). :-)

@Mario-Lemelin

You mean something like this:

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BTW, just now I expected to look at my N++ window and NOT see “administrator” there, because it is my usual intent not to run in that mode. Does anyone know why sometimes Notepad++ gets in that mode on its own? It is annoying because when it is that way I can’t drag and drop from a (normal) Explorer window.