Tip 11: Settings>Preferences>Editing Click Enable (Ctrl+Mouse click/selection) for Mulit-Editing. To remove select Shift + Alt + down arrow + right arrow followed by delete button. Tip 10: Insert characters at beginning of several lines. Filter *.* and directory path.Ĭtrl + tab = list tabs and file locations

Highlight key word and select Search>Find in files. Tip 8: Find key word in all files in a directory folder.

Tip 7: Load and Save Sessions (.ses files) to maintain open tabs. Tip 6: Search Internet for selected word by right clicking the word and choose Search Internet. Double click any entry to paste back to an open tab file. Tip 5: Edit>Clipboard History shows recently copied data. Tip 4: Aligning lines to left use Shift + Tab. To remove blank spaces select Edit>Blank Operations>Trim Leading and Training Space. Tip 3: Click show all characters radio button to see hidden characters (spaces are dots tabs are arrows CRLF). Tip 2: Open two files and on second tab click Move to other view to compare the two files side by side. Notepad++ has many useful features for editing data files and writing scripts such as html, perl or python.

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