This entry was posted in Tools and tagged Notepad++, Tool by admin. This post refers to Notepad++ version 6.5.5. You just can’t compare Notepad++’s compare function to a real comparison tool, like Beyond Compare or WinMerge. And before you do the comparison, you must make sure that the second of the files to compare is zoomed to the default level. Ok, you can do a rudimentary comparison of two files. But pitily, the compare feature in Notepad++ is not mature at all. It is a good idea to build a diff function into a programmer’s editor of course. It doesn’t show constructors and destructors in C++.It doesn’t work at all with bash, C# and Tcl.I’ve tested it with bash, C++, C# and Tcl. A slight pity here is, it doesn’t work too well. Function ListĪ function list is a nice thing for a programmer, no question. There are some features in Npp that are meant well, but which need improvement. Select the extension you want to be associated with Notepad++ besides.Īlso, I have set Notepad++ as the text editor in Double Commander, so I can open any file in Notepad++ by clicking F4 in Double Commander, completely independent of its extension.Select an entry in the Supported exts column, e.g public script.Here, for every extension you want to be associated with Notepad++, do You can do this easily in Notepad++ by selecting Settings/Preferences/File Association. I’ve associated many file types, including txt, ini, cs, cpp, tcl, bsh and others with Notepad++, so if I double click on such a file, Windows opens it with Notepad++ automatically. Plugins/Plugin-Manager/Show Plugin Manager

Use the plugin-manager to browse and install from dozens of special plugins that may be helpful for you

View/Fold All, Unfold All, Collapse Current Level, Uncollapse Current Level, Collapse Level/1,2,3,4,5,6,7, … ANSI, UTF-8, UCS2, …Ĭonvert between ASCII, decimal, hex, binary and octalĬhange all keyboard shortcuts to your preferred ones. Less Known Features of Notepad++ With Notepad++, you can ….Ĭhange the encoding of a file. But maybe you do not know some of the less known features of Notepad++ which often come in handy for a developer.

It can handle multiple open files in tabs.

It’s got syntax highlighting for most programming languages.Everytime you need to edit a small script and you don’t want to boot up your big IDE, Notepad++ is the editor to go for. It is the fast pure text editor for programmers. Especially for us programmers there is Notepad++. Microsoft’s default text editor Notepad is not good.

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