Unfortunately, the Notepad++ documentation is lacking in its description of these new capabilities. I found Anjesh Tuladhar's excellent slides on regular expressions in Notepad++ useful. After six hours of trial and error, I managed to bend Notepad++ to my will. Notepad lacks many basic features available in other text editors, such as block selection and…

That is, you can right-click on a word/sentence in Notepad, and then click Search with Bing option to search the world wide web for that word with Bing. Users who prefer using keyboard shortcuts can use Ctrl + B shortcut to search for the word with Bing web search. The scroll bar at the…

I usually just use flow for everything but if you just want to have an editor then this is a must. Which is why lately I’ve been using Kate/KText as well – so i can run the same editor on both Win and Linux. Nick Schäferhoff is an entrepreneur, online marketer, and professional blogger from…

For a second, I thought that meant that we all agree on how many spaces a tab character represents. I tend to use only Chr because it takes less space. Unless you have a use case where people will be opening the files you create with notepad, this should work fine. So file streams are…