Notepad-plus-plus: feature request: Open file in original program

Created on 7 Oct 2018 · 3Comments · Source: notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus

Notepad++ has the option "open containing folder" in explorer and cmd from the Tab. I work a lot with Arduino files in Notepad++ but to compile the file the original Arduino editor is required. It will be a nice feature of have the possibility to open the editor direct from the Notepad++ tab: "Open file in original program" according the extension and the Windows file association.

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Cyrillev91 on 10 Oct 2018

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To achieve this you could use the RunMe plugin. It executes the currently opend file based on its shell association.

A more flexible way would be to use the NppExec plugin. It provides a console to execute commands in Notepad++ and also allows scripting. Its help file shows example scripts how to call compilers of different programming languages.

I personally use the second solution. I wrote a base script which I can call via keyboard shortcut. According to the current file's extension it calls scripts to start the appropriate compiler or interpreter. In this way a have a sort of shell for 12 programming/scripting languages, including VBScript, Batch Script, GNU Plot, C, C#, SQL and InnoSetup.