Search for opened files / tabs

Author: javiergutierrezchamorroCreated Feb 25, 2022Updated Sep 10, 2026

When users work with lots of opened documents, usually it is time consuming to change from a one document to another. Use case is a software with lots of source files, or when you are creating different contents simultaneously.

Tab bar gets filled with tabls, and the list of opened documents (CTRL-Tab) has lots of items that makes difficult to locate the opened file you want to jump to.

It would be great if Notepad++ implements a search field onto the list of opened documents. The user could input something like "main", and the list would be filtered with only the filenames contanining that string.

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Source: notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus