The graphical user interface of Notepad++ is neat and clean. The text is easily readable. The default font is Courier new with a size 10. This should be perfect for many. If you want to increase the font, you can do it using the tip mentioned in this document. But sometimes, you just want to …
Plain text has different Characters, Numbers, and Special characters like CR, LF, Space, TAB, and others special characters. CR, LF, Space, and TABS are invisible by default. What if you want to see all hidden/special characters in Notepad++? Notepad++ provides a function SHow Symbol to hide and show white space, TABS, All characters, Intend Guide, …
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Programming languages have syntax and semantics e.g in PL/SQL, it is begin exception end, If then else block. These are fixed and do not change. What if you can store these blocks in a pocket and use it with just a click of a mouse button. No need to type it again and again. Isn’t …
Notepad++ Snippets Plugin (nppsnippets) – Download, Install and Use Read More »
Visual Studio Code is an all-in-one code editor for free created by Microsoft and optimized for developing and debugging the latest cloud and web-based applications. But here the Question is; How does it compare against the most well-known editor of source code, Notepad++? The blog will guide you to the rest of the answers to …
Which is the default text editor in Windows? Is it Notepad, WordPad, TextPad, Notepad++, or any other text editor? By default, it is Notepad. Any text file (*.txt) by default opens in Notepad, right? Double-click on that file and it opens in the default editor. What if you want to open these files in a …
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Tab settings in Notepad++ allow you to change the TAB size. You can change the size at the default as well as specific language levels. Default is applicable to all the languages while language level tab settings are applicable only to that specific language. The Default Tab size in Notepad++ is 3. You can also …
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Notepad++ is one of the best source code editors. It is fast and efficient and provides all necessary editing functions built-in. It does support plugins and extensions to add additional functionality. You are going to love this text editor for features like syntax highlighting, code folding, EOL Conversion, effective search and replace functionality. Today, we …
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The End of Line (EOL) conversion in Notepad++ allows you to change the line termination character in a text file. Unix uses line feed (LF), Windows use both carriage return (CR) and line feed (LF), and Macintosh uses (CR) as line termination characters. Let me show you how this character looks in a normal text …
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In the last article, we discussed the JSON plugin for Notepad++ which is very useful to format JSON. There is another plugin JSTool – A JavaScript tool for Notepad++ which provides the same functionality. It is actually a Javascript plugin that works on JSON as well. So let’s discuss this plugin in detail and see …
JSTool Plugin for Notepad++ – Features, Download, How to Install and Use Read More »
JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight data-interchange format. Mostly you would have used it in web service to send and receive payloads. JSON is based on the collection of name/value pairs and an ordered list of values. You can use any text editor even Notepad to create and modify JSON. Smaller files …
Notepad++ JSON formatter Plugin (JSONViewer) – (How) Download, Install and Use Read More »
