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Too many ST windows open + admin/non-admin problem

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Hi,

TL;DR: steps to reproduce the bug on Windows

  • start ST4 from an admin software (example: from cmd.exe which has been started as admin): it shows (ADMIN) in the ST title bar

  • double-click on test.txt on Desktop : it opens a new ST window (non admin)

  • double-click on test2.txt on Desktop : it opens a third ST window (non admin)

…

  • double-click on test9.txt on Desktop : it opens a 10th ST window (non admin)

How to have only 1 or 2 windows, and new tabs instead?

Note: if you reproduce these steps avoiding step #1 (starting an (ADMIN) ST window first), then at the end of step #10, you have only one single window, with many tabs, as expected.

QUESTION:

In my setup, files are opened in ST4 from various places:

  • from the Windows File Explorer, for example double clicking on a .txt file on Desktop (then ST is NOT started as admin) (.txt file are associated with Sublime)
  • from “Everything” (which in my setup runs as admin), then ST opens a new window “ADMIN” to open the files
  • from Autohotkey (it HAS to run as admin, if not => it wouldn’t catch keyboard shorcuts when you are using an admin software / when an admin software has “focus”), then ST opens a new window “ADMIN”.

So logically, at the end, there should be maximum 2 ST windows:

  • 1 non-admin ST window
  • 1 admin ST window

But for an unknown reason, every time I double click on a new .txt file (either in Explorer or Everything or elsewhere), sometimes it opens a new window instead of a new tab.
At the end, I end up with 5 or 10 different ST windows, with the same files opened! It’s totally unusable, you don’t know which window has the “latest” version of a file.

I already use "open_files_in_new_window": false but without success.

Questions:

  • how to avoid having more than 2 ST windows (one for admin, and one for non-admin) when you open new files from Explorer (with filetype association)?

  • is it possible to have only 1 window (either admin or non-admin), and then each time you open a new file (from anywhere, from a non-admin like Explorer or admin software like Everything), it adds a new tab in the single ST window, and not open a new n+1 window?

I am searching for this since days, without success. I have already looked at this, without success:

Opening New Window instead of New Tab - Technical Support - Sublime Forum

Open files in new window (for Windows) - Ideas and Feature Requests - Sublime Forum

Too many windows opening on Mac when using Unity. How to stop it - Technical Support - Sublime Forum

Thanks

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