In this guide, I will show you how to turn off auto-completion in Notepad++. This can be toggled on and off quite easily. For me, I prefer to have this off. I am usually manipulating weird text documents or JSON files while using Notepad++ so the suggestions are not helpful for me. You can see … Read more
This guide will show you how to easily remove blank lines in Notepad++. We are lucky to have this functionality built right into the program. It is sure to save many people the time and frustration of doing this type of task manually. Before I jump into the article, I want to mention how well … Read more
In this guide I will show you how to enable the document minimap feature in Notepad++. This is an extremely helpful feature when you are working in long documents and can visually find the where abouts of where you are looking to navigate to. Enabling Minimap In order to enable the document minimap we will … Read more
This guide will show you how to easily tail documents in Notepad++. This is helpful when you want to see when a document changes in real time. An example of this could be when a log file changes. To enable Tail -f or Monitoring of the document, simply click on the Eyeball just below the … Read more
This guide will show you how to disable updates in Notepad++. Typically, this is not something that I recommend. Without the latest updates, you will miss out on the latest features and most importantly security patches. This can put your commuter at risk to hackers. For me, disabling the updates is something that I do … Read more
This guide will show you how to install a plugin with Notepad++. This is important to know how to do if you want to extend the functionality of this text editor. I will show you below how to install one of my favorite plugins. First we will start by going to the Plugins main menu … Read more
This guide will show you how to remove an installed plugin in Notepad++. This is extremely important to know how to do. Sometimes we test adding different plugins to our programs, but don’t know how to uninstall them. Then when the plugin breaks everything, we are in a panic on how to fix it. Before … Read more
This guide will show you how to use split screen in Notepad++. This is an easy to use feature that really helps when comparing two documents. Often times I will use this when writing code so that I can see related code that I am writing at the same time. I am not sure why … Read more
This guide will show you how to get a summary of the file you have open in Notepad++. The information this will provide includes, when it was created, last modified, the full file path, characters, words, lines, document length, and how many characters you have selected. This is really helpful when you are looking for … Read more