I'm using Notepad++ as an editor to write programs in Python. It might sound daft but I looked around in the editor and could not find any means (not the manual way but something like in Emacs) to ...
I want to compare values from two different files. In Notepad++ version 5.0.3 we had shortcut button Alt + d but in version 6.6.8 I cannot find any option to compare. Also let me know which version is most stable.
What is the best way to find out where notepad.exe and mspaint.exe are that will work across various versions of Windows? Should I get the Windows directory via SHGetFolderPath(NULL, CSIDL_WINDOWS...
How do I convert tabs to spaces in Notepad++? I found a webpage that suggests it's possible, but I couldn't find any information about how to do it. I would like to be able to do that, because ...
If you are using Notepad++ editor (like the tag of the question suggests), you can use the great "Find in Files" functionality. Go to Search → Find in Files (Ctrl + Shift + F for the keyboard addicted) and enter: Find What = (cat|town) Filters = *.txt Directory = enter the path of the directory you want to search in. You can check Follow current doc. to have the path of the current file to ...
How can I create a user defined language (UDL) in Notepad++ to highlight my logs like in other IDEs? So for example that INFO logs are green, DEBUG logs blue, ERROR logs red and so on? my wish
On Windows Notepad.exe, I simply press F5 and it inserts the date and time like this: 11:05 AM 1/14/2015 Can I add similarly simple functionality to Notepad++?
In Notepad++, whenever you select any word in an HTML document (or in your CSS), similar words are automatically highlighted. Is there a shortcut I can use to edit all of these highlighted segment...
Notepad++ has a Compare Plugin tool for comparing text files, which operates like this: Launch Notepad++ and open the two files you wish to run a comparison check on. Click the “Plugins” ...
My problem was that Notepad++ was crashing on a file I had previously opened; I was unable to open the application at all. This blog post discusses how to delete the data from the "Sessions" file so that Notepad++ will open without having any prior files open: From the blog post: Method 1 - edit session.xml Open file session.xml in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ or %APPDATA ...
