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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 …
How 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 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 …
Notepad++ EOL Conversion – Change line endings (crlf to lf) 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 »
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 »
