Notepad++

Changing the same spot on dozens of lines by hand gets old fast, and column mode…

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Notepad++ has had a rough stretch since 2025, and it isn’t one bug. The installer had…

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Notepad++ shows hidden characters from the View menu. Point to Show Symbol and click Show All…

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Notepad++ dark mode lives under Settings > Preferences > Dark Mode. Current builds offer a Dark…

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Notepad++’s GitHub repo passed 29,000 stars a while back. That’s a lot of people choosing a…

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Notepad++ can’t compare files on its own. You install the ComparePlus plugin, open both files in…

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Notepad++ has no native Linux build, so you end up running the Windows editor through Wine…

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Notepad++ is the free editor a lot of Windows users reach for once plain Notepad stops…

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Windows already ships with Notepad, so the real question is whether a second editor earns its…

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Notepad++ keeps copies of unsaved tabs and edited documents in %AppData%\Notepad++\backup on a standard Windows install,…

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Most people should just install Notepad++ and move on. It’s free, it’s GPL-licensed, and it comes…

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What you open the editor for settles most of this. Logs, configs and small scripts on…

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Spaces at the edges of lines go with Edit, Blank Operations. Spaces anywhere else go through…

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To wrap text in Notepad++, open the View menu and click Word wrap. A checkmark appears…

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Select the word, right-click, choose Style all occurrences of token, and pick a numbered style. That…

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Notepad++ highlights XML but doesn’t format it. For that you install the XML Tools plugin from…

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Notepad++ colors JSON through its built-in json language, but it has no way to indent it.…

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Notepad++ can’t diff two files by itself. The ComparePlus plugin fills that gap. Install it through…

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