You can find a Notepad++ plugin called AutoSave for autosaving your files here: https://github.com/francostellari/NppPlugins/tree/main/AutoSave (Used to link to https://sites.google.com/site/fstellari/nppplugins but that’s no longer online, cached version is still available here) It autosaves every minute, but it’s configurable, and allows you to choose to save only the current document or all open documents.
Vim has modal editing (answering the vice versa part). And it runs in a terminal. You are likely correct; if “vim” isn’t a real text editor, I’m not sure what is. I guess ed, the standard Unix text editor, would be the only real one.
In the Find and Replace dialog: under Search Mode select Regular Expression set Find What to /.*$ leave Replace With empty This is replace any slash and all the text after it until the end of line with nothing. It uses a regular expression so it looks convoluted but it is well worth learning as regular … Read more
This is also possible with Notepad++: Go to the search menu, Ctrl + F, and open the Mark tab. Check Bookmark line (if there is no Mark tab update to the current version). Enter your search term and click Mark All All lines containing the search term are bookmarked. Now go to the menu Search → Bookmark → Remove Bookmarked lines Done.
Follow these steps: Press Ctrl+H to bring up the Find/Replace Dialog. Choose the Regular expression option near the bottom of the dialog. To add a word, such as test, at the beginning of each line: Type ^ in the Find what textbox Type test in the Replace with textbox Place cursor in the first line of the file to ensure all lines are affected Click Replace All button To add a word, … Read more
I’m trying to use Notepad++ with the Progress programming language. I have installed the language definition in %APPDATA%\Roaming\Notepad++ as userDefineLang.xml and syntax highlighting is working correctly. I’ve put a file in the notepad++ Plugins\APIs directory named progress.xml, but the contents are not recognized by Notepad++. I’ve also removed all the other language files from that directory and Notepad++ still shows the exact … Read more
Since I upgraded to 6.3.2, I use XML Tools. install XML Tools via the Plugin Admin (Plugins → Plugins Admin… Then search for “XML Tools”, check its box and click the “Install” button). use the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B (or menu → Plugins → XML Tools → Pretty Print) In older versions: menu → TextFX → HTML Tidy → Tidy: Reindent … Read more
I am trying to install a Notepad++ plugin from Plugins -> Plugin Manager, but my office firewall is restricting its download. Is there any alternate way to download plugin offline?
It should usually work using the method Dave described in his answer. (I can confirm seeing “TextFX Characters” in the Available tab in Plugin Manager.) If it does not, you can try downloading the zip file from here and put its contents (it’s one file called NppTextFX.dll) inside the plugins folder where Notepad++ is installed. I suggest doing this while Notepad++ itself is … Read more
Notepad++ with the TextFX plugin can do this, provided you wanted to sort by line, and remove the duplicate lines at the same time. To install the TextFX in the latest release of Notepad++ you need to download it from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/TextFX The TextFX plugin used to be included in older versions of Notepad++, or be … Read more