I want to compare values from two different files. In Notepad++ version 5.0.3 we had shortcut button Alt + d but in version 6.6.8 I cannot find any option to compare. Also let me know which version is most stable.
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 ...
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 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 ...
How can I create a user defined language (UDL) in Notepad++ to highlight my logs like in other IDEs? So for example that INFO logs are green, DEBUG logs blue, ERROR logs red and so on? my wish
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'm using Notepad++ as an editor to write programs in Python. It might sound daft but I looked around in the editor and could not find any means (not the manual way but something like in Emacs) to ...
New feature added in Notepad 6.6 for which the release notes say: The main feature of this release is Session snapshot & periodic backup. If this feature is enabled (enabled by default), user won't be asked to save unsaved file as he quits Notepad++, and on startup Notepad++ restores the unsaved file and unsaved untitled document of last session.
Notepad++ has a Compare Plugin tool for comparing text files, which operates like this: Launch Notepad++ and open the two files you wish to run a comparison check on. Click the “Plugins” ...
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.
