Notepad++ is one of the most famous code editors out there because of its simplicity and it’s not only a code editor it’s also useful for doing many data management operations, so we’re going to have a look on some of the most helpful tips and tricks for using notepad++.
Remembering The Current Session
Sometimes when we are working with multiple files and we do not have the time to save those files, then we simply close notepad plus plus and in the next session we already start from the same session where we left.
So to handle this we can go to settings and then preferences and here we have the option backup and here if we set up the option remember current session, then we need to specify the first setting and then we specify the path in the session will automatically be remembered and reloaded from the point where we left if we do.
If not want to have it or want a new start every time then you need to simply uncheck these two options and then the session will not be remembered.
Selecting Themes (Style Configurator)
The second one is style configurator so if we want to have a particular theme for our entire notepad + + environment we can:
Go to settings and then style configurator and here we have a lot of different themes we can select from.
Document Map
The third one is document map, since notepad plus plus is one of the most basic and famous code editor so oftentimes we work with really huge amounts of code and in order to have a better control over the flow.
We can set up this option for example if we see this programming file so we have a lot of lines of code we want to better analyze we want to have a better control over the flow so for that we can:
Go to view and document map, it can show us currently the flow is staying in the first part, now if we make a click the flow automatically moves down. So we can click to any part of the code and it better gives you complete overview of the entire file and we can switch by clicking here and into the document map diagram and we can right away move to any part of the code.
Select Multiple Lines & Edit
The next one is multi-line select and edit this is one of my favorites so over this one we can select multiple multiple lines right at once and then we can edit them right away for doing:
So we need to select shift and alt and then we need to press the down button then we can simply edit it and once we want to deselect it we can press either up arrow or down arrow and automatically the selection is gone.
Find & replace Text
The next one is find and replace text so you have the option to select ctrl + F .
If you want to search something using regular expressions so to understand these you need to first know the basics of how regular expressions are being written.
Using Plugins in Notepad++
last one is using plugins in notepad plus plus so what you need to do is you can install external plugins right inside notepad.
Notepad plus plus it could be well the of important libraries and important functions that you can use in your code editor to make your coding more smoothing to make recording mode smooth simply.
