The programmer's Notepad++ (no plugin conflicts setup)

The full-feature Notepad++ setup with some scripts collections from other repositories and installed plugins that does not have the conflicts. Hit the Ctrl+Shift+Alt+M to read this file in the editor.

Installation

Before starting the Notepad++ make sure you run Notepad++Portable.exe, because if you run notepad++.exe directly all small configurations will be lost.

• You can install Notepad++ via PortableApps and replace PortableApps/Notepad++Portable/ with this Notepad++, but it's not necessary.

• Find Users\username and replace it with your Users\<your-username> in whole directory of Notepad++Portable.

• Create shortcut for Notepad++Portable.exe and pin it to the Taskbar and Desktop, or you can access it from the PortableApps manager.

Theme

My preferred theme is Texter-Light and Texter-Twilight in the Windows High Contrast and editor's Dark Mode. If you want to have dark mode in Notepad++ everywhere go to Language->User Defined Language->Define your language... and change file extensions for each user defined Dark/Light language in the Extension field.

The workflow

After you open the editor you'll see TODO.txt that could be opened using Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Space shortcut, or accessed from the context menu.

While editing the document you can hit Ctrl+Shift+P (hotkey like in Sublime Text, vscode) , type 10, and you'll see Add 10 Lines, press Enter key and after some time if you need more 10 new lines - hit Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Enter and previous command will be executed.

Some hotkeys

• Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Backspace is used for NppExec plugin to repeat executed command, e.x. if you want to compile some script.
• Ctrl+Shift+Alt+\ previous executed Python Script script.
• Shift+Alt+D - you can clone the file to the next view, or
• Ctrl+Alt+D - you can move the file to the next view. It's useful when you need work with large files.
• Alt+D, Alt+J - Multicursor, select next occurrence, like in the SublimeText editor
• Alt+W - Select by word
• Alt+K - Skip to next selection
• Alt+U - Undo selection
• Ctrl+Shift+L - Select all occurrences
• Ctrl+Alt+P - Toggle spell checker
• Alt+P - go to next error
• Shift+Alt+P - go to previous error
• Shift+Enter - will break the line
• Shift+Space - will select between quotes
• Shift+Alt+Space - edit in the Distraction Free Mode
• Alt+Z - cursor to previous location
• Shift+Alt+Z - cursor to next location
• Ctrl+Alt+A - Select paragraph
• Ctrl+Shift+A - Select by Fold
• Alt+A - Emmet select inwards
• Shift+Alt+A - Emmet select outwards

Projecting

In the context menu you'll find Workspace item that will have useful items to work with the project. If you installed Git - make sure the Workspace path is loaded and you can access Git features from the context menu Git->Git Edit Global .gitignore and then paste the following:

.DS_Store
.tags
tags.idx
Thumbs.db
*.orig
*.swp
GPATH
GTAGS
GRTAGS
NppGTags.cfg
tags
tags.sqlite

The most useful plugin I found is NppGTags. Open any file in the workspace root directory and click Workspace->Create database. Make sure if the workspace path is loaded. To check the path - hit Alt+\.

If you know how to use ctags.exe - download and compile it from the sources and after running ctags you'll be able to use NppTags and TagLEET, but if you will want to generate tags database from the editor's interface - it will be slow. The built ctags.exe version you can find in Notepad++Portable\App\Notepad++64\ctags-p5.9.20210718.0 directory and you can setup NppTags->Options... path to ctags.exe destination.

Git

If you want use Git features - it's better to download and install TortoiseGit. One more useful program is DiffUse - download and install it and hit Ctrl+Shift+Alt+P and add the absolute path to diffuse.exe to the user's Path environment variable.

Useful links

In the Explorer's Favorites you can find useful links to some popular services.