Enhancement: Opening multiple files at once

[Tim Rushing]

I frequently have many files open at once for coding work. I also open and close many files while working.

It would be great to be able to either create a set of files that can all be opened together

or

optionally to have a command that would say put all open files at the top of the recently opened files list.

I often find that the files I've had open and edited all day are no longer on my recently opened files.

[Andreas]

To open multiple files:
- in the Open dialog, select multiple files
- drag and drop multiple files

To open sets of files, open all the files to be in the set.
Then go to File/Workspace/Save As to save the workspace.

To open the set next time, go to
File/Workspace/Open... or File/Workspace/(Recent Workspace List)

Recently opened files support up to 16 files (configure the number using Configure/Preferences/File and edit the number of recent files and recent workspaces).
The limitation to 16 is IIRC up to Microsoft.

Andreas

[Jeff Epstein]

One extra tip: Make sure that "Allow multiple files on the command line" is checked off, in the General tab of the Preferences dialog box.

I wonder what the *dis* advantage to having this checked is...

[Andreas]

The difference appears when you have unquoted file names with blanks in them.

If multiple files are allowed,
====================
textpad c:\program files\textpad\dummy.txt
will result in textpad trying to open the two files:
c:\program
files\textpad\dummy.txt

while
textpad file1.txt file2.txt
will result in textpad trying to open the two files:
file1.txt
file2.txt

if multiple files are not allowed,
=======================
textpad c:\program files\textpad\dummy.txt
will result in textpad trying to open the one file
c:\program files\textpad\dummy.txt

while
textpad file1.txt file2.txt
will result in textpad trying to open the one file:
file1.txt file2.txt


Andreas

[Jeff Epstein]

I see. That makes sense. However, I *think* there is a way around this:

In Folder Options --> File Types, select "Text Document" and then touch the "Edit" button. This pops open a new dialog box, called "Edit File Type".

In the list, double click "open". This pops a dialog box: "Editing action for type: Text Document". If you surround the %1 with double quotes, to "%1", this will put each file (will it) into quotes, so the spaces (in any single file name) are ignored.

This is truly a guess. I've not tested it. So if it doesn't work, don't kill me... :'/

I don't personally have a need to open multiple files at once. I use workspaces todo that.

[Luoji]

Hello,

To avoid problems, you can also use quotes:

if multiple files are or are not allowed,

textpad "c:\program files\textpad\dummy.txt"
will result in textpad trying to open the one file
c:\program files\textpad\dummy.txt

while
textpad "file1.txt" "file2.txt"
will result in textpad trying to open the two files:
file1.txt
file2.txt

Regards,

Luoji.

[Andreas]

Problem is you don't always have control whether you can use quotes.
E.g. when notepad (which is really txplink) is called by some tool where you have no sourcecode.

Andreas