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Notepad++: disable auto-indent after empty lines

I find the autoindent style of Notepad++ a little weird: when I am typing on an indented line, I do want it to indent the next line after I press Enter (this it does properly). However, when I am on an empty line (no indentation, no characters) and I press Enter, it indents the next line, using the same indentation as the last non-empty ...

How to disable Notepad++'s annoying 'parenthesis completion'?

Whenever I type a (, [, or {, Notepad++ completes it with the corresponding closing bracket. I find this 'feature' annoying and would like to disable it. It doesn't seem to be listed in the Preferences dialog and a search of the online documentation didn't yield any useful result. Does anybody here know where the option for this is hidd...

Find CRLF in Notepad++

How can I find/replace all CRLF characters in notepad++? Looking for something equivalent to the ^p special character in Word. ...

Regex to find lines containing sequence but not containing a different sequence

How do I write a regular expression to find all lines containing 665 and not having .pdf I can't seem to find how to do not in regex. This is for Notepad++ syntax if it matters. Thanks ...

Streaming log(txt) viewer

Anybody in the know of a viewer (or Notepad++ plugin) that can read txt files in a streaming way? I would like to see for example the last 10 lines of a txt file that gets appended continiously. ...

Any Notepad++ plugins to automatically save document versions

Hello, Does anyone know of any notepad++ plugin that saves a version of whatever I'm working on periodically? Ideally, it would save many versions with the automatic version number and the date in the title, and perhaps store them in a zipped archive to save space. Does something like this exist already, or shold I attempt to write suc...

Regex expression token find and replace

Hi, Please could someone help me with writing a regex expression to replace 0044 token which will be at the start of the string with a 0. Please note that I do not want to replace all 0044 tokens with 0, only those that appear at the start of the string. Thanks a lot ...

PHP IDE--Want to sync local storage with FTP

I currently use Notepad++ for most of my development. I have been checking out other, more full-featured options and would like to switch (I'm in particular a fan of Aptana so far) but there is one thing about Notepad++ that I really like and I haven't been able to get so far. My current workflow is something like this: Workflow (I t...

Are there any good editors for LISP programming, other than emacs?

I'm looking for an alternative, since I find emacs difficult to use. I'd rather use an editor that supports all the usual shortcuts I'm used to, such as arrow keys to move the cursor around, CTRL+SHIFT+RightArrow to select the next word, etc. Basically, I don't want to have to relearn all my familiar shortcuts just so I can use emacs. ...

Using regular expressions to do mass replace in Notepad++ and Vim

So I've got a big text file which looks like the following: <option value value='1' >A <option value value='2' >B <option value value='3' >C <option value value='4' >D It's several hundred lines long and I really don't want to do it manually. The expression that I'm trying to use is: <option value='.{1,}' > Which is working as inte...

How does the GPL apply if you are using a tool released under the GPL rather than integrating GPL code?

My favorite text editor is Notepad++, which is released under the GPL. On it's home page it explicitly states that... Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. I realize that when you build an application that uses GPL code, you must license your application under the GPL as well. But how does th...

Komodo Edit and Notepad++ ::: Pros & Cons ::: Python dev

I'm using Notepad++ for python development, and few days ago I found out about free Komodo Edit. I need Pros and Cons for Python development between this two editors... ...

How to write macro for Notepad++?

I would like to write a macro for Notepad++ which should replace char1, char2, char3 with char4, char5, char6, respectively. Thanks ...

Compile lisp / scheme in Notepad++

Hi! I'm pretty much into lisp at the moment, and unfortunately i'm only available to code on windows. Is is possible to let Notepad++ take care of the interpreting of my scripts, and display the output in the compiler window? If yes, what interpreter would be the best to use? Thanks! ...

Emacs, highlight all occurences of a word

In Notepad++ editor, there's a convenient feature: if you select a word in your text (not necessarily a keyword), the word is highlighted throughout the text. Is there any similar way in Emacs? Not necessarily with selection, I think something like C-"something" M-"something else" which highlights all words same as the word under the cur...

How to multi-line "Replace in files..." in Notepad++

If the free source code editor Notepad++ has the feature "Find in files...", that is without the files being opened in the editor, does it not also have the feature "Replace in files..."? Notepad++ is based on the editing component Scintilla - for which at SourceForge there is a response to a request for this feature: "No need for this ...

Missing/desired features in Notepad++

What feature is missing or hidden in Notepad++, that can be added while keeping it still the small, fast and efficient source code editor that it is? Have you found a feature to be missing only to later discover a way to achieve this anyway, perhaps with a plug-in? ...

Auto-Indent in Notepad++

We always write code like this formal: void main(){ if(){ if() } but when I use notepad++,the display is : void main(){ if(){ if() } How to use the notepad++ to auto indent? Thanks to Jonathan,I have set it,but it does not take any effort. The snapshot is below: The version of mine is shown a...

Notepad++ tabs to spaces

Does anyone know how to convert tabs to spaces in Notepad++? I found a webpage that suggests it's possible (http://www.texteditors.info/notepad-replacements-compared.php) but I couldn't find any information about how to do it. I like to be able to do that because some web forms don't respect code with tabs in it. ...

Notepad++ and code completion

Is there any way to improve code completion in notepad++? Currently it supports some kind of "static" code completion and it requires to make a list of instructions and they parameters in xml file or it works on a list of words in open document. I`m looking for something that can read *.h files and make that list automatically and also...