Small Tips on Notepad++
Notepad++ is a great free source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages.
Useful Notepadd+ keyboard shortcuts
Ctrl+o Open
Ctrl-Z Undo
Ctrl-Y Redo
Ctrl-D Duplicate Current Line
Ctrl-L Delete Current Line
F3 Fine Next
Shift-F3 Find Previous
Ctrl-G Launch GoToLine Dialog
Ctrl-W Close Current Document
F11 Toggle Full Screen Mode
Ctrl-Tab Next Document
Ctrl-Shift-Tab Previous Document
Ctrl-Shift-Up Move Current Line Up
Ctrl-Shift-Down Move Current Line Down
Ctrl-Shift-BackSpace Delete to start of line
Ctrl-Shift-Delete Delete to end of line
Ctrl-U Convert to lower case
Ctrl-Shift-U Convert to UPPER CASE
Shift-Tab (selection of several lines)
Remove Tabulation or Space (outdent)
Formatting xml
1. Select the xml code
2. TextFX -> HTML Tidy -> Tidy: Reindent XML
Delete the first word/space/line no’s
TextFX > TextFX Tools > Delete Line Numbers or First word
Remove the trailing spaces
TextFX > TextFX Edit > Trim Trailing Spaces
Remove Blank Lines
TextFX > TextFX Edit > Delete Blank Lines
TextFX > TextFX Edit > Delete Surplus Blank Lines
Install notepad++ plugin
Just search and download plugin from http://npp-plugins.sourceforge.net/, and extract it, you will find .dll files, copy them to notepad++/plugins/ directory, and restart np++.
Useful notepad++ plugins
Notepadd++ already includes:
Mime Tools Base64 encode/decode,
TextFx provides many practical function such as upper/lower case, escape/unescape, auto-close XML,
nppExport Export file to RTF/HTML format.
Other plugins from http://npp-plugins.sourceforge.net/
Explorer Plugin – a file browser
Multi Clipboard - add up to ten text phrases to the clipboard.
Compare Plugin - show the difference between 2 files.
XML Tools - XML Checker. Can auto-close tags and provides other useful features.
Customize Notepad++
In this article, the author introduces a way to port ANY Textmate theme over to Notepad++.
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