But pitily, the compare feature in Notepad++ is not mature at all. It is a good idea to build a diff function into a programmer’s editor of course. It doesn’t show constructors and destructors in C++.It doesn’t work at all with bash, C# and Tcl.
I’ve tested it with bash, C++, C# and Tcl. A slight pity here is, it doesn’t work too well. Function ListĪ function list is a nice thing for a programmer, no question. There are some features in Npp that are meant well, but which need improvement.
I’ve associated many file types, including txt, ini, cs, cpp, tcl, bsh and others with Notepad++, so if I double click on such a file, Windows opens it with Notepad++ automatically. Plugins/Plugin-Manager/Show Plugin Manager
Use the plugin-manager to browse and install from dozens of special plugins that may be helpful for you View/Fold All, Unfold All, Collapse Current Level, Uncollapse Current Level, Collapse Level/1,2,3,4,5,6,7, … ANSI, UTF-8, UCS2, …Ĭonvert between ASCII, decimal, hex, binary and octalĬhange all keyboard shortcuts to your preferred ones. Less Known Features of Notepad++ With Notepad++, you can ….Ĭhange the encoding of a file. But maybe you do not know some of the less known features of Notepad++ which often come in handy for a developer. It can handle multiple open files in tabs.It’s got syntax highlighting for most programming languages.Everytime you need to edit a small script and you don’t want to boot up your big IDE, Notepad++ is the editor to go for. It is the fast pure text editor for programmers. Especially for us programmers there is Notepad++. Microsoft’s default text editor Notepad is not good.