Articles for Notepad++, Vim, Sublime Text and other Text Editors
Notepad++ is a free and open-source text editor that has been around for over ten years. It supports several programming languages and can have different styles applied to it. The original release was created in 2004 as a response to the lack of features in the popular free text editor Notepad, but it has seen …
The Complete Guide to Set Notepad++ as Default Editor in Windows Read More »
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 …
Tab Settings in Notepad++ ( Convert Tabs to Spaces) Read More »
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 …
How to change text case (lower, upper and proper) in Notepad++ Read More »
The 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 file. Open the …
Notepad++ EOL Conversion – Change line termination character Read More »
Microsoft Notepad is a basic file editor included with Windows. It is a basic editor that allows you to create/edit text (*.txt) files. In this article, I will show how you can use Notepad to create a log file that adds the current date and time each time the file is opened. This is the …
Syntax highlighting is one of the most important features available in Notepad++ Text Editor. Very useful for Developers. During the lifetime of a code, a lot of code is added and commented on. It would be difficult to differentiate between code and comments when you open it without syntax highlighting. Here, the syntax highlighting feature …
How to Enable Syntax Highlighting in Notepad++ and Create your own Read More »
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 »
Ubuntu is the most popular operating system within Linux. Therefore, it is used by many developers worldwide. This is why there are many world-class publishers like Code. However, there is another editor that is presented to us as a hackable one. So if you are a developer you might be interested in knowing how to …
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 …
Notepad++ Themes – How to Change and Create your own Read More »
