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Notepad++ is a free and open source text editor for Windows. It is designed as a replacement for the built-in Notepad application.

Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for , and it is distributed as free software. It aims to be lightweight and robust, and supports syntax highlighting and code folding for over 50 programming, scripting, and markup languages. The user interface of notepad++ was translated into multiple languages, e.g. English, German, French, etc.

Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses the pure Win32 API and STL which ensures rapid execution speed and smaller program size.

-- Don Ho, author of Notepad++, from the project home page

Most notable features:

  • Unicode support
  • Tabbed document interface
  • Drag-and-drop
  • Syntax highlighting and Syntax folding
  • Auto-completion support for a subset of the API of some programming languages
  • Macro recording and playback
  • Multi-Language environment support
  • Bookmark

License:

It is released under GPL License.

Resources:

Latest LTS Version: v7.8.9 released on 2020-07-16

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Delete everything in each row after first | occurence in notepad++

My text file is like this: aa/asdhaetcal02acjjaj 2397 hah|asd93hoa| azxc./asdh5656al02acj4536|asd93hoa| azxc./asdhceacjjaj 236y3vh|asd93hoa| And I want it to be like: aa./asdhaetcal02acjjaj 2397 hah hazxc./asdh5656al02acj4536 azxc./asdhceacjjaj…
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Extend highlighting of built in language as new user defined language in Notepad++

I am currently customizing the syntax highlighting of .less files in Notepad++. I know I can import a user made .xml file and modify it to match my color scheme but this doesn't allow me to get it looking how I would like. Is there a way to extend…
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Notepad ++: Cannot remove empty line

My txt file looks like this: line 1 line3 I'm trying to remove the empty line. I choose "extended" search mode in Notepad++'s Replace window and type \r\n or \n\r but cannot match it. So, how to do it? I have removed empty lines from a lot of…
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php debuggers which are not bloated

any suggestions for good php debuggers, which are not bloated? i tried using xdebug with dbgp plugin on notepad++, but it seems the dbgp plugin isn't compatible with notepad++ and hence, didn't work out crashing the app every time i accessed the…
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Find all strings not preceeded by another, with anything in between in notepad++

I know using a simple negative lookbehind #(?
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Regex to find strings not containing a specified value

I'm using notepad++'s regular expression search function to find all strings in a .txt document that do not contain a specific value (HIJ in the below example), where all strings begin with the same value (ABC in the below example). How would I go…
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Color Coding Syntax in Notepad++ for html.erb files

In Notepad++, I can't color code my html.erb files. At first, I didn't think this was a problem, but then I realized that it's making my work extremely difficult. There are options to highlight with Ruby, and options to highlight with HTML. HTML.erb…
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Use REGEX to find line breaks within a wrapped content

The direct question: How can I use REGEX lookarounds to find instances of \r\n that occur between a set of characters (stand in open and closing tags), "[ and ]" with arbitrary characters and line breaks inside as well? The situation: I have a large…
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Regex between text with different characters on NotePad++

I am trying to catch the code starting with
until the end of it's close tag
Can I do this with regex. See the code example