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 …
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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. Default Tab size in Notepad++ is 3 You can also configure …
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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 …
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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 …
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Notepad++ supports themes. This is another feature of this free, fast, and efficient Text Editor. A theme controls the foreground, background-color along with font attributes like name, size, etc. You can easily add and remove the theme in Notepad++. You can also create your own theme by using the default theme provided. So let’s discuss …
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Notepad++ is one of the most popular scintilla based free text editor. The user interface is neat and clean. The foreground(canvas) color is black and the background is white. Courier New is the default font with font size 10. Some of you may not like it and want to change this. In this article, I am going …
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Notepad++ used to come with a pre-installed plugin called Plugin Manager to install, update and remove the plugin. This was removed starting from version 7.5. Now, Notepad++ comes with a built-in module called Plugin Admin. Let’s discuss plugin admin and see how you can use it to install, update and remove the plugin. Notepad++ Plugin …
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How to convert text from ASCII to HEX and HEX to ASCII in Notepad++. This is possible using the NppConvert plugin. NppConvert NppConvert in a plugin for Notepad++ which helps you to convert text from ASCII to HEX and HEX to ASCII. There is no need to install, as it comes as pre-installed in Notepad++. …
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