Improve "Save all"

mpotra

Currently the “Save all” does not prompt for user confirmation, when clicked, but goes directly into saving all open files.

It’s happened to me several times, that I have accidentally clicked the “Save all” button instead of the “Save File”, given they’re so close to each other, and that has resulted in unwanted saving of several files that I was still editing.

Is there an option to at least force “Save all” function (button or Ctrl+Shift+S) to always prompt for confirmation on being called, such that accidental triggers wouldn’t overwrite unwanted changes?
If not, I believe it would be great to add it somewhere in the preferences and enabled by default.

Scott Sumner

@mpotra

Not a bad suggestion I suppose…you may want to follow the advice here.

You can have this functionality TODAY if you are willing to “script it”. The scripting plugins for Notepad++ are excellent. I tend to use Pythonscript; here’s some code for that which will implement a confirmation for Save All.

Here’s SaveAllWithAreYouSurePrompt.py :

def SAWAYSP__main():
    if notepad.messageBox(
        'Do you want to do a SAVE on all unsaved files?', # box body text
        'Are you sure??',                                 # box titlebar text
        MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.YESNO
        ) != MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.RESULTYES: return
    notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.FILE_SAVEALL)

SAWAYSP__main()

You can remap the default Save All keyboard shortcut to run the script instead.