What is the best way to find out where notepad.exe and mspaint.exe are that will work across various versions of Windows? Should I get the Windows directory via SHGetFolderPath(NULL, CSIDL_WINDOWS...
How can I have multiple cursors in Notepad++? I will have a couple of tab delimited values . I need to write a query for all of these values. For example, if I get an Excel file with values like t...
My problem was that Notepad++ was crashing on a file I had previously opened; I was unable to open the application at all. This blog post discusses how to delete the data from the "Sessions" file so that Notepad++ will open without having any prior files open: From the blog post: Method 1 - edit session.xml Open file session.xml in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ or %APPDATA ...
On the most recent versions of Notepad++, when the application is closed, unsaved files are maintained when the application is restarted. I presume that those files are cached on a temporary files...
I have seen in videos, that people get html template by typing "html:5" or something like that (btw, they're not using notepad++). Is this possible in notepad++? Thanks.
Notepad++ doesn’t format JSON by default. Install a plugin like JSON Viewer or JSTool via Plugins → Plugins Admin. After installing, select your JSON and use Plugins → JSON Viewer → Format JSON (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M). That will pretty-print and indent the JSON properly.
If you are using Notepad++ editor (like the tag of the question suggests), you can use the great "Find in Files" functionality. Go to Search → Find in Files (Ctrl + Shift + F for the keyboard addicted) and enter: Find What = (cat|town) Filters = *.txt Directory = enter the path of the directory you want to search in. You can check Follow current doc. to have the path of the current file to ...