Articles for Notepad++, Vim, Sublime Text and other Text Editors
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 …
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 …
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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 way you can do it. Start Notepad. It opens a blank text file, just type .LOG on the first line and click enter. Save the file using Save or Save …
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 which stands for JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight data-interchange format. Mostly you would have used it in webservice to send and receive payloads. JSON is based on collection of name/value pairs and ordered list of values. You can use any text editor even Notepad to create and modify JSON. Smaller files are easy …
JSON Viewer Plugin for Notepad++ – Features, Download and How to Install 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 »
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 …
How to Change Font, Foreground and Background Color in Notepad++ Read More »
Cannot load 64 bit plugin/Cannot load 32 bit plugin XMLTools.dll is not compatible with the current version of Notepad++ Do you want to remove this plugin from the plugins directory to prevent this message from the next launch? Are you getting a similar error while opening Notepad++ after installing a new plugin? Let me tell …
