The Replace dialog can handle extended characters like EOL. Just change “Search Mode” to “Extended”, and you can work with EOL (\r\n in Windows or \n in Unix), tabs (\t), etc. You can also use the Find in Files tab of the dialog to do the replace across multiple files.
Add space characters to the end of the first line of file1 until it is longer than the longest line in file1. Do a column mode selection of the entire contents of file 2. Do this by holding the ALT key down while dragging the mouse across the file. As you drag you should see … Read more
Follow these steps: Press Ctrl+H to bring up the Find/Replace Dialog. Choose the Regular expression option near the bottom of the dialog. To add a word, such as test, at the beginning of each line: Type ^ in the Find what textbox Type test in the Replace with textbox Place cursor in the first line … Read more
For any new document: Settings -> Preferences -> New Document (left pane) -> New Document (right pane) -> Format (Line ending) -> Windows (CR LF) / Unix (LF) / Macintosh (CR) And for an already-open document: Edit -> EOL Conversion
Notepad++ v6.5 Search menu -> Find… -> Mark tab -> Find what: your search text, check Bookmark Line, then Mark All. This will bookmark all the lines with the search term, you’ll see the blue circles in the margin. Then Search menu -> Bookmark -> Remove Bookmarked Lines. This will delete all the bookmarked lines. … Read more
Notepad++ will only auto-insert subsequent indents if you manually indent the first line in a block; otherwise you can re-indent your code after the fact using TextFX > TextFX Edit > Reindent C++ code.
If you look in the same menu. Click “Convert to UTF-8.”
Try a regular expression replace of (good)|(great)|(fine) with (?1bad)(?2worse)(?3not). The search looks for either of three alternatives separated by the |. Each alternative has ist own capture brackets. The replace uses the conditional form ?Ntrue-expression:false-expression where N is decimal digit, the clause checks whether capture expression N matches. Tested in Notepad++ 6.3 Update: You can … Read more
To convert existing tabs to spaces, press Edit->Blank Operations->TAB to Space. If in the future you want to enter spaces instead of tab when you press tab key: Go to Settings->Preferences…->Language (since version 7.1) or Settings->Preferences…->Tab Settings (previous versions) Check Replace by space (Optional) You can set the number of spaces to use in place … Read more
Try Plugins -> XML Tools -> Pretty Print (libXML) or (XML only – with line breaks Ctrl + Alt + Shift + B) You may need to install XML Tools using your plugin manager in order to get this option in your menu. In my experience, libXML gives nice output but only if the file … Read more