The command palette of Visual Studio Code is enriched by an additional command for opening the active file with Notepad++. Multiple configuration options are available (see below).

A keyboard shortcut Ctrl+K Ctrl+N is set for triggering this command.

The context menus of the VS-Code editor and explorer are extended correspondingly by an additional entry. This can be configured via the extension settings (see below).

Notepad++ needs to be installed. See https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/

The following settings are provided and can conveniently be opened via command Open Settings for 'Open in Notepad++':

• openInNpp.extendExplorerContextMenu: Add Open in Notepad++ to the context menu of the VS-Code explorer (default: true)
• openInNpp.extendEditorContextMenu: Add Open in Notepad++ to the context menu of the VS-Code editor (default: true)
• openInNpp.decoupledExecution: Run Notepad++ independently of VS-Code, in particular, do not close Notepad++ upon exit of VS-Code (default: true); corresponds to option detached of child process creation

• openInNpp.preserveCursorPosition: Let Notepad++ preserve the cursor position of the VS-Code editor (default: true); corresponds to command line parameters -n / -c; if set to false Notepad++ will position the cursor at the beginning of the first line

• openInNpp.Executable: Specifies the path of the Notepad++ executable; if not explicitly set a lookup in the following order is made
  1. %ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
  2. %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
  3. C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
  4. C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
  5. notepad++.exe (fallback lookup via the folders of the Windows %PATH% environment variable)
• openInNpp.workingDirectory: Specifies the path of the folder used as working directory during the execution of Notepad++; if not explicitly set the folder containing the file to be opened is enforced as working directory or - when a folder is opened - the folder itself is also used as working directory; if a relative path is specified here it will be based on the first workspace folder of VS-Code

• openInNpp.multiInst: Open a separate instance of Notepad++ for each command execution (default: false); corresponds to command line parameter -multiInst
• openInNpp.skipSessionHandling: Prevent Notepad++ from loading the previous session and changing its state (default: false); corresponds to command line parameter -nosession

• openInNpp.openFolderAsWorkspace: When passing a folder path along to Notepad++ let this folder be handled as a workspace (default: false); corresponds to command line parameter -openFoldersAsWorkspace
• openInNpp.filesInFolderPattern: Instead of passing a folder path along to Notepad++ find all files (relative to this folder) matching the specified glob pattern and let the result list become the arguments of the execution of Notepad++; Notepad++'s default handling of a folder path likely corresponds to applying the pattern **/*.* (i.e. subfolders are recursively taken into account, due to this the pattern *.* is possibly a good choice)

• openInNpp.commandLineArguments: Specifies additional arguments to be passed along to Notepad++; a comprehensive overview of the command line parameters of Notepad++ is available here
• openInNpp.spawnOptions: Specifies additional options for child process creation; details are available here

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