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Windows 11 Notepad is truly annoying! It keeps opening tabs with previous opened files. I don't want that! I only want to open Notepad with one empty tab.
How can I avoid that? Or delete the cache memory with a C++ program? Or perhaps with a Notepad command with a switch from the command line?
Please comment. Thank you!
Ricardo N. Ponce
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Opening Notepad > When Notepad starts and set it to Open a new windowIt won't remember your previous sessions. This is a feature that Notepad++ has that a lot of people like so it makes sense to include it in the app that Notepad++ replaces.
I knew that. And thank you, Taylor! My question was how to do that programmatically with C++ or from the command line perhaps with a switch. I am trying to open Notepad with a program, and I don't want Notepad to open all previously-opened files or content in tabs. I want to open Notepad with empty content and one tab.
You really shouldn't override whatever the user's preferred settings are. This could mess them up. Imagine that the user has 4 tabs open and they close Notepad. You open notepad with a flag/C++ code/whatever and then the user closes Notepad again. The session data is gone so when they reopen Notepad next time then those 4 tabs are still gone. Even worse is that Notepad allows you to put text into the editor and not save the changes, sort of like a scratchpad. When Notepad restarts it restores the "unsaved" content anyway. As a user I would get upset.
Nevertheless I don't think you can get access to the cached information. Notepad is an MS Store app now which means everything is stored in a protected folder structure that not even admins can write to. I don't even think it uses the registry which would be at least something. I'm also not aware of any CLI options for starting notepad.
Hi Michael! Thank you for your time!
I hear you, but I agree only partially. Also, your comments are kind of inconsistent. Your first comment/solution was that "Go to Opening Notepad > When Notepad starts and set it to Open a new window". In fact, that is what I want to do but programmatically in my C++ program. You also said "You really shouldn't override whatever the user's preferred settings are.". Well..., I am the user in this case. I am writing a program, and I am calling Notepad, because I need an editor, and I do need Notepad with this particular setting. I could turn the settings back the program finishes, if it is at all possible in any case. I guess I am out of luck, huh?
Personally I'd just turn it off if you don't want the feature. No need to do it programmatically. If you do want to do it programmatically then I'm not aware of a way to do it. It is an MS Store app and they are pretty locked down. Unless the app exposes a settings and API to configure it then your options are limited. But I've not looked too far to see. I don't see any options though.
Thank you, Michael! I do appreciate your comments and time.
Would you perhaps know of an editor although very simple that I can open from a C++ program? Other than Notepad, of course. I mean something like this window we are using right now. Just a simple one that I can open and write on, and save back to a text file from a C++ program. I guess there must be some out there, but I just can't find it, and that is why I am using Notepad.
If all you really want is very simple text editor to function as a scratch pad you could probably write your own with minimal effort by putting a multi-line edit control in a win32 dialog.