v1.0.0

v1.0.0 — initial public release

Virtual Tab Groups is a Notepad++ plugin that adds a dockable panel for organizing open documents into virtual folders that persist across sessions.

Features

• Hierarchical virtual folders with intra-panel drag-and-drop (multi-select supported)
• Add Active File / Add All Open Files to populate folders from the current Notepad++ session
• Aliasing for duplicate filenames in the same folder (User(1).php)
• Auto-removal when a file is closed in Notepad++ (suspended during shutdown so the per-tab close notifications don't strip the tree)
• Panel persistence — visibility and position survive Notepad++ restarts
• Unsaved-buffer persistence when Notepad++ session backup is enabled
• Reveal in Explorer and Copy full path in the file context menu
• Pixel-perfect dark mode integration matching Notepad++'s theme
• Per-extension shell icons, tooltips, smooth drag rendering
• Corrupt-state recovery with automatic backup of unparseable state files

Install

Download VirtualTabGroups_x64.zip (or _x86 for 32-bit Notepad++), extract into C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\VirtualTabGroups\, restart Notepad++.

Hashes (for Plugin Admin submission)

• VirtualTabGroups_x64.zip: 78e869ba856192017bfb0ef06fa55af9efb0e545ecb20032efb4ef8f38063713
• VirtualTabGroups_x86.zip: 6944348826f8e31f6b7fa9c0ef0ace7cc2f5527b0c48bb76915951eb8f2e83e6

Known limitations

• ARM64 builds are not produced: the 3F.DllExport IL post-processor we use doesn't yet recognize ARM64 as a cpu platform target. Notepad++ ARM64 users can install manually by extracting the x64 zip into their plugins directory, but the plugin won't appear in the ARM64 Plugin Admin list.