How to change background color in the Notepad++ text editor?
Go to Settings -> Style Configurator Select Theme: Choose whichever you like best (the top two are easiest to read by most people’s preference)
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Notepad++ Setting for Disabling Auto-open Previous Files
For versions 6.6+ you need to uncheck “Remember the current session for next launch” on Settings -> Preferences -> Backup. For older versions you need to uncheck “Remember the current session for next launch” on Settings -> Preferences.
Find CRLF in Notepad++
[\r\n]+ should work too Update March, 26th 2012, release date of Notepad++ 6.0: OMG, it actually does work now!!! Original answer 2008 (Notepad++ 4.x) – 2009-2010-2011 (Notepad++ 5.x) Actually no, it does not seem to work with regexp… But if you have Notepad++ 5.x, you can use the ‘extended‘ search mode and look for \r\n. … Read more
How do I configure Notepad++ to use spaces instead of tabs?
Go to the Preferences menu command under menu Settings, and select Language Menu/Tab Settings, depending on your version. Earlier versions use Tab Settings. Later versions use Language. Click the Replace with space check box. Set the size to 4. See documentation: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#language
Removing empty lines in Notepad++
There is now a built-in way to do this as of version 6.5.2 Edit -> Line Operations -> Remove Empty Lines or Remove Empty Lines (Containing Blank characters)
Regex: Remove lines containing “help”, etc
This is also possible with Notepad++: Go to the search menu, Ctrl + F, and open the Mark tab. Check Bookmark line (if there is no Mark tab update to the current version). Enter your search term and click Mark All All lines containing the search term are bookmarked. Now go to the menu Search … Read more
Notepad++ add to every line
Follow these steps: Press Ctrl+H to bring up the Find/Replace Dialog. Choose the Regular expression option near the bottom of the dialog. To add a word, such as test, at the beginning of each line: Type ^ in the Find what textbox Type test in the Replace with textbox Place cursor in the first line … Read more
Removing duplicate rows in Notepad++
Notepad++ with the TextFX plugin can do this, provided you wanted to sort by line, and remove the duplicate lines at the same time. To install the TextFX in the latest release of Notepad++ you need to download it from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/TextFX The TextFX plugin used to be included in older versions of Notepad++, or … Read more
How To Auto-Format / Indent XML/HTML in Notepad++
Since I upgraded to 6.3.2, I use XML Tools. install XML Tools via the Plugin Admin (Plugins → Plugins Admin… Then search for “XML Tools”, check its box and click the “Install” button). use the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B (or menu → Plugins → XML Tools → Pretty Print) In older versions: menu → TextFX → HTML … Read more
Convert tabs to spaces in Notepad++
To convert existing tabs to spaces, press Edit->Blank Operations->TAB to Space. If in the future you want to enter spaces instead of tab when you press tab key: Go to Settings->Preferences…->Language (since version 7.1) or Settings->Preferences…->Tab Settings (previous versions) Check Replace by space (Optional) You can set the number of spaces to use in place … Read more