


I have gone through all of the screens in Preferences and I didn’t see anything else that applies. I checked “Always in multi-instance mode” under Settings>Preferences (it was unchecked after the upgrade) but that has had no effect. Opening Notepad++ and then dragging the files into it from Explorer does open them in tabs (which is a necessity because of the need to perform search/replace across all files simultaneously). Instead, I get multiple windows with one file each. I recently updated my Notepad++ to version 8.5.3 by clicking on the pop-up offering same.īut I have lost the ability to highlight files in Explorer, then click on “Edit with Notepad++” and have a single instance of Notepad++ open with all of the files in tabs.
