Notepad++ is a free power user’s text editor for Windows. It is more or less standard to have if you do any sort of code hacking, be it for CSS, PHP or whatever you need a superior text editor for. One function that everybody needs to know how to use in a text editor is replace. There will be times when you will want to replace text with the addition of a...

As I was doing an overview of the TextMate product for my tip yesterday, I noticed TextMate offers a nice collection of user submitted themes. Some of these I really liked (i.e Fake and Plastic Code Wrap) and would love to be able to use them in my text editor of choice, Notepad++. With the help of the “Textmate theme to Notepad++ styler” tool, this...

If you run your own web site and run Perl, PHP scripts or the like, there will be instances where you have to edit some files from time to time. The long way to do it is to download the file you need to edit, modify it, then upload it back. The short way is to edit the file "live" on the server directly. Using Notepad++ this is easy to do with...

Microsoft seem to produce versions of Windows so quickly these days that before you can manage to get used to the one that they seemingly only just produced; they’re beta testing another. (If you look back to the turn of the century you’ll notice that the situation was rather similar: 2000 followed ME, (Or was it the other way round? It all happened...

Text editors are obviously not very exciting in the world of computers, however there are times when they’re absolutely necessary to get things done. For example, if you have ever dabbled in programming, used HTML, custom-made your own Cascading Style Sheet or the like, an advanced and fast text editor is required otherwise it takes twice as long to get...

We all know that Windows comes with a simple text editor called Notepad. Notepad works, but it is severely feature limited. Some die-hard nerds swear by it. Power in simplicity, they say. Others want something more. In this article, I will outline several high-power replacements for Notepad. If you want to engage in some serious use of text files or do some...