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If you right-click in the Folder as Workspace panel, you can add more directories to the current Workspace.ĭouble-clicking on a file from the tree-view will open it as a new tab in the Notepad++ editor (or will activate that tab if it’s already open). You can also load a Folder as Workspace using the -openFoldersAsWorkspace command line argument. When you drag a folder from Windows Explorer onto Notepad++, this feature will be activated (unless overridden by the ”… folder dropping” option). This feature allows you to use a tree-based interface to easily access the files in a given directory. Note: As of Notepad++ v8.2, the loaded session is saved automatically on exit of Notepad++, if the Multi-instance settings is not set to “Default (Mono-instance)”. When you load a session: if you are set to “Default (Mono-instance)” in the Multi-instance settings, then the files from that session are added to the current instance of Notepad++ (files already open will remain open, even if they aren’t in the session you loaded) if you are set to either “Open session in new instance” or “Always in multi-instance mode”, then the files from the session you are loading are opened in a new Notepad++ instance. You can also load a session file using the -openSession command line argument. The MISC preferences include an option to set a file extension that will automatically be opened equivalently to Load Session, even if you use File > Open to access that session that extension will also be the default when you Save Session ¹. Session files are XML, and are identical in format to the session.xml config file.

File > Save Session… can be used to save the currently-open files as a session.

File > Load Session… can be used to load an existing session.

When you load the session, all of that information is loaded back into Notepad++. The session file stores the paths of the open files, the active file (and which view, see the section about Multi-View), the current selection and position in the file, the current bookmarks (see Bookmarks) and the current language (see the section about Languages). They do not have to be in the same directory or even on the same drive. Using sessions, you can open a set of files with one action. Sessions are a set of files to be opened in Notepad++. There are also various plugins available that might help manage sessions or workspaces, or serve similar purposes but with a different feature set compared to these built-in features.

Project Panels = a tree-based interface to access related files that aren’t necessarily grouped in the same Windows directory structure.

Folder as Workspace = a tree-based interface to easily access the files in a given Windows directory.Sessions = a set of files that can be opened with one action.

There are three built-in “multiple file management” systems available natively in Notepad++. Sessions, Workspaces, and Projects Sessions, Workspaces, and Projects