Tips & Tricks

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Notepad++

Macros

To be inserted into: "%APPDATA%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml"

• Update version date stamp in DOXYGEN header [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Shift]+[v]

Like updating the first occurence of:

/**
---8< ---- >8 ---
 * @version    2025-08-01T11:13:24
 */

       <Macro name="Update version" Ctrl="yes" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="86">
            <Action type="0" message="2316" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />          <!-- SCI_DOCUMENTSTART -->
            <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />          <!-- IDC_FRCOMMAND_INIT -->
            <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="^\s+\*\s+\@version\s+" />     <!-- IDFINDWHAT -->
            <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" />          <!-- IDNORMAL -->
            <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="512" sParam="" />        <!-- IDC_FRCOMMAND_BOOLEANS -->
            <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1" sParam="" />          <!-- IDC_FRCOMMAND_EXEC -->
            <Action type="0" message="2306" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />          <!-- SCI_CHARRIGHT -->
            <Action type="0" message="2452" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />          <!-- SCI_LINEENDWRAPEXTEND -->
            <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="42086" lParam="0" sParam="" />
        </Macro>

Messages can be found in: Prefix | File —|— SCI_ | scintilla\include\Scintilla.h ID, IDC | PowerEditor\src\ScintillaComponent\FindReplaceDlg_rc.h

Configuration

• Settings
  • Preferences
    • Dark Mode: Select darkmode
  • Preferences
    • Multi-Instance & Date
      • Customize Insert Data Time
        • Reverse default data time oder: Select
        • Custom format: yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss
  • Preferences - style Configurator -
    <summary>Global Styles + White space symbol</summary>To change the color of the arrow sign/dot sign go to Settings -> style Configurator and in Language section select Global Styles & in Style section select White space symbol and change the Foreground Color as your wish. Notepad++ background color for tabs (tabulations)?
    • Language
      • Tab Settings
        • Tab size: 4
        • Replace by space
  • Shortcut mapper
    • Filter on Date and add shortcut [Alt]+[F5] to “Date Time (Customized)

[!NOTE] Tab Setting has moved to Settings / Preferences / Indentation

Plugins

NppMarkdownPanel

• Styles.css - Border in tables and fieldsets

• ComparePlugin
• ComparePlus
• Converter ¹
• DarkTheme
• @@Doxyit_icon@@DoxyIt ²
• HexEditor
• JSLintNpp
• JsonTools
• MarkdownViewerPlusPlus
• mimeTools ¹
• NppConverter
• NppExport ¹
• NPPJSONViewer
• NppMarkdownPanel
• NppSnippets
• PlantUmlViewer
• PoorMansTSqlFormatterNppPlugin
• Python Indent
• PythonScript
• Tidy2
• Translate

1. Default ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. DoxyIT plugin works ONLY on NotePad++ 32 bit! See Notepad++ Community. Use the Python script instead: DoxyIT ↩