5 cool Notepad++ tricks. Updated: January 17, 2009 Notepad++ is quite likely the best text editor for Windows.
It has a huge range of features that would take quite a few articles to cover. And this exactly what I'm going to do: introduce the incredible power of this highly versatile and sophisticated text editor. No more Notepad or Wordpad for working with text files. Or scripts. 1. One of the stronger features of Notepad++ is the ability to color pieces of code. Notepad++ is smart and will automatically detect your code. 2. If you want to replace a certain entry in your file(s), Notepad++ is your (wo)man. 3. When it comes to finding what you want, Notepad++ is not limited to mere words. Of course, some knowledge of regular expressions is required to use this feature. 4.
If you're writing web articles, there's a fair chance your code will include a bit of unnecessary breaks, misaligned tags and so forth. For example, here's a piece of unformatted text: Which we wish to convert to the XHTML format: Tricks with Notepad++ Notepad++ is an amazing text editor which not just gives you option to edit and save your text files, but also gives lot many features which can help you in doing magic. Few of the useful options available are listed below. Experiment yourself and unveil the power of Notepad++ Remove all whitespace char’s Select all the text you want to remove the white space chars and click ‘Cntrl+H’, type space in the find field and leave the Replace field blank.
Click ‘Replace all’ to remove all the spaces in the text file. Replace Whitespace Delete the first word/space/line no’s TextFX > TextFX Tools > Delete Line Numbers or First word Remove Line Numbers 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 Remove Blanks Change Case of Selected Text TextFX > TextFX Characters , the following options are available lower case Proper Case Sentense case. iNVERT cASE Prefix/Suffix Present. Notepad++ Tips and Tricks. 10+ Notepad++ Tips For Fast Development. Notepad++ is an open-source text editor for Windows.
I have to work on different technologies, It’s not possible to install all editors (like Dreamweaver, Visual studio 2010, …etc) on my old machine. So I use Notepad++ as my default text-editor. It’s simple and fast. Here are some tips for web developer and designer to use it effectively. 1. Similar to VS 2010, Box Selection (aka column selection, block selection, or rectangular selection) exists in Notepad++. 2.
Generally, It is needed to convert new line/tab character. 3. Suppose you have to see two files and compare manually. 4. You can remove unnecessary space in your js file and can minify before deploying. Edit > Blank Operations > Trim Header and Trailing SpaceEdit > Blank Operations > Remove Unnecessary Blank and EOL 5. Generally when we copy code from website and paste it we get line numbers or special char, we need to remove this. 6. 7. 8. As a blogger, I have to post html source code.