How do I stop Notepad++ from loading all files from the past session? Every time I open a file I have 10 other open tabs with all my past files. I don’t want that. When I hit the close button I expect the program to do what I want and close it. If I wanted … Read more
How can I find/replace all CR/LF characters in Notepad++? I am looking for something equivalent to the ^p special character in Microsoft Word. 18 Answers 18
Notepad++ keeps inserting tabs which later messes up my code. This doesn’t just happen when I hit the tab key, but other times as well. I want it to use 4 spaces instead of tabs. How can I make Notepad++ insert spaces instead of tabs? 3 Answers 3
How can I replace empty lines in Notepad++? I tried a find and replace with the empty lines in the find, and nothing in the replace, but it did not work; it probably needs regex. 22 Answers 22
I have a long document of commands. Using Notepad++ or regex, I want to delete all lines containing “help” including keyboard_help, etc. How can this be done? 6 Answers 6
I’m using Notepad++ and I can’t figure this out : I have numerous lines all starting with http. I need to add some text in front of it in every line. Also, I need to add different text to the end of each line. Each line ends differently. What is the fastest way to add … Read more
Is it possible to remove duplicated rows in Notepad++, leaving only a single occurrence of a line? 16 s 16 Since Notepad++ Version 6 you can use this regex in the search and replace dialogue: ^(.*?)$\s+?^(?=.*^\1$) and replace with nothing. This leaves from all duplicate rows the last occurrence in the file. No sorting is … Read more
Is there a way to re-indent a block of code? I’m looking for something similar to Ctrl+Shift+F in Eclipse (Auto-Format/Indent). To be clear, I already know how to format XML outside of Notepad++ (Eclipse works fine, as mentioned) so I don’t need a bunch of links to other XML-formatting tools. I’m specifically working with XML … Read more
I need Notepad++ to take a json string from this {“menu”: {“id”: “file”,”value”: “File”,”popup”: {“menuitem”: [{“value”: “New”, “onclick”: “CreateNewDoc()”},{“value”: “Open”, “onclick”: “OpenDoc()”},{“value”: “Close”, “onclick”: “CloseDoc()”}]}}} to this… {“menu”: { “id”: “file”, “value”: “File”, “popup”: { “menuitem”: [ {“value”: “New”, “onclick”: “CreateNewDoc()”}, {“value”: “Open”, “onclick”: “OpenDoc()”}, {“value”: “Close”, “onclick”: “CloseDoc()”} ] } }} I looked around … Read more
How do I convert tabs to spaces in Notepad++? I found a webpage that suggests it’s possible, but I couldn’t find any information about how to do it. I would like to be able to do that, because some web forms don’t respect code with tabs in them. 12
