[feature requet] New Selected Multiple Documents

Mit Jean

I have a need to apply a find or find/Replace to Multiple Open Documents (MOD Scope). A simple new scope would do it.

Mark/Unmark the tab with Ctrl-Click and the MOD scope gets activated

That feature would be a fantastic time saver

Alan Kilborn

Read HERE.

Mark Olson

@Mit-Jean
If all your open documents are in a reasonably small directory tree (e.g., you don’t have one in C:\Users\yourname\Documents and one in C:\Program Files\Notepad++), you can use MS-DOS wildcard syntax to select patterns in filenames.

For example, if I have the following files open in Notepad++

README.md
foo1.md
subdir1\bfoo.axt
subdir2\bar.bxt
subdir2\foo2.cxt
subdir3\foo2.md
subdir4\foo300.dxt
subdir4\subsubdir\foo99.fxt

you could use foo*.?xt to select only the files where the filename starts with foo and the extension is one character followed by xt, which would include only

subdir2\foo2.cxt
subdir4\foo300.dxt
subdir4\subsubdir\foo99.fxt

This syntax is kind of frustrating and confusing in its limitations (read the documentation linked above very carefully to understand them), and while I like Notepad++ for find/replace operations in a single file, I will almost always use VSCode for find/replace operations in numerous files because it is much more performant and makes it a lot easier to include/exclude certain types of files.