Questions tagged [notepad++]
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
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Does anyone know how to edit msbuild targets files in Notepad++ with intellisense?
I often edit my msbuild files with Notepad++.However, I miss the intellisense I get when I do so in Visual Studio. Does anyone know how to have the same experience in Notepad++?
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Is there a Notepad++ feature to add some vertical space to the bottom or scroll below last line?
Whenever I'm doing some coding in Notepad++ i need to add some lines at the bottom so if i scroll down, the code doesn't stop at the bottom at the window. The problem is that I sometimes forget to ...
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Notepad++ default FileChooser view type
Often when I am working on a bunch of files in Notepad++, I need to open the most recently modified file out of many in a log directory. I find that I need to get to the 'Open' dialog and then change ...
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Where is the tab/indent options in Notepad++ 5.5?
I recently upgraded to Notepad++ 5.5, and I can't find the tab indentation options. Does anybody know where they were moved? They used to be easily locatable in the Preferences menu, but apparently ...
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What is the way to use FTP and Notepad++ (without using its build-in FTP or a FTP client like FileZilla)?
I use Notepad++ for more than 2 years now, and there's only 1 thing that it needs for me to be perfect: a actually-working-ftp-plugin.
It has an FTP plugin, written by someone that meanwhile left the ...
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Does Notepad++ have a minimap feature?
I'm not really sure what to call the "minimap" feature of a text editor.
For example, Sublime Text has what I would call a Minimap feature. A skinny map on the left side where you can click to get ...
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How do I uncomment lines in an XML file using Notepad++
I can comment lines easily enough with Ctrl+Shift+Q.
How do I uncomment the lines? Ctrl+Shift+K doesn't do it.
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Replace \r\n with newline in Notepad++
How do I replace the string "\r\n" with the same characters?
Example:
Hello World.\r\nHello World.
replaced with:
Hello World.
Hello World.
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Assigning custom extensions to a language's syntax highlighting in Notepad++
In the current version of Notepad++ opening .sql files results in Notepad applying SQL syntax highlighting to it. I'd like Notepad++ to do the same for other extensions as well, is there some setting ...
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How to remove custom run commands in notepad++
I use Notepad++ and to speed up the development of my program I added a keyboard shortcut to the Run menu. This of course took a few tries to get right and now I have multiple entries on the list ...
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Delete blank lines from a text file
I am trying to delete all the blank lines in a text file. Is there a quick way to do this?
What I have
line one
line two
What I want
line one
line two
I am using Notepad++, so a solution using ...
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shortcut to manually Reload file from Disk
Now that I can turn off the annoying Reload popups, I would like a quick way to manually reload the file I am working on in NotePad++ via the keyboard. Looking at the File menu, Reload from Disk does ...
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How to turn off Reload alerts?
In NotePad++, I generally run with a few files open. These are log files that are continually updating. I get annoyed when NotePad++ resumes focus and I get a stack of Reload popups informing me that ...
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Notepad++ find and replace string with a new-line
Consider the scenario where you have a specific string that you want to find-and-replace. You want to replace it with a new string that contains a newline character (or character sequence).
abc123 ...
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"Open resource" dialog in Notepad++?
I am happily using Notepad++ for a long time, but there is one thing that this editor lacks: an "Open resource" dialog, as in Eclipse, that allows opening of files in project folder (and subfolders) ...
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Extend selection to next blank line in notepad++
I recently switched from Textpad to Notepad++. Overall, I have found N++ to generally be superior, but one of the few things I have been looking for since the beginning that I have not found is the ...
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Show/Hide function folding margin on Notepad++
Is it possible to get rid of the function folding margin on Notepad++? It seems like the sort of thing that should be in the prefs but I'm not seeing it anywhere.
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Parsing text files
I encountered a situation tonight where I wanted to parse a text file. I had a very, very long word list that contained English words delimited by lines. I wanted to get rid of every word (or line) ...
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Disable or lock zoom in Notepad++
Is it possible to disable or lock the zoom feature in Notepad++?
I'm doing a lot of copying and pasting, and the zoom level keeps changing on me. It's driving me nuts!
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Notepad++ Delete Lines with Find & Replace
Does anyone know how to delete a line using Find & Replace in Notepad++ ?
In my Find query it finds the proper lines okay: ^.pPrev.$
In the Replace field, I leave it blank thinking the line ...
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How can I edit Unicode text in Notepad++?
Sometimes I edit English text that includes Unicode characters. For some reason, on my PC, Notepad++ converts Unicode characters to ???'s thereby corrupting the text and losing all that data. I'm ...
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Why doesn't Ctrl+F4 work in Notepad++?
Why does Ctrl + F4 not close a document that has been opened in Notepad++? Is there a way to enable it?
I have started using Notepad++ today and I expected Ctrl + F4 to close the current document as ...
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How can the font size be changed in Notepad++?
How can the font size be changed in Notepad++?
I just downloaded and installed Notepad++ v5.4.5 (I have been using
UltraEdit for the last 11.5 years) and can not find a menu
command for changing the ...
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Closing Notepad++ tabs on closing application
Is it possible to make Notepad++ close all open tabs when it is shut down?
Currently when a new file is opened with Notepad++ all previously open tabs (and of course the files open in those tabs) are ...
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How to make Notepad++ open file browser in current folder?
I set Notepad++ to be called from command-line. I would like it to open file browser in current folder from which it was called so that I could work with files in that folder. Is there any way to do ...
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