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I recently discovered Notepad++ after being an Edit+ user for the longest time. I really like everything Notepad++ does, but I’m baffled at one particular thing.

I’ve got my preferences set to default to HTML when you open a new document. It’s working fine, when I click “new” it opens and new document and has HTML syntax highlighting and the collapsible boxes in the margin to keep everything nice and neat.

What I can’t figure out though is that when you first open Notepad++, it has a blank document open by default, but this blank document is NOT in HTML format (although under “language” in the menu says it is). It’s just a basic “normal text” document with no code syntax highlights, or collapsible code boxes in the left margin. Only after I actually click “File >> New” or save the default open document as .html does it actually have the HTML features.

It’s not difficult to get around this, I simply have to click “new” and open up a new document when I start, but I figured there must be a setting somewhere to fix it so that by default, and HTML document was generated when I open Notepad++?

I actually discovered that this is a small bug in the program. Supposedly it’s beein worked on.

I have to say that I am Notepad++ addicted. I knew the bug that your talking about, it’s pretty annoying.

Yes, I’m finding more and more that I love Notepad++ too. I used to believe that you really couldn’t get any better than Edit+ in an editor, but I stand corrected. I do think that if someone would combine all the best features of Edit+, Notepad++, and eTextEditor, they would have one heck of a piece of software, but I know that’s probably far fetched.

One thing I wish Notepad++ would do too is have the ability to save a template file. For example, I would create a new template of all the basic code of an HTML document (or whatever document you were working with) and as soon as I clicked File >> New, it would open that template so I didn’t have to copy/paste the doctype and basic code in there. I did figure out that you could open up the “lite explorer” plugin and then save directories as favorties, so I just created a basic HTML document and saved it as a favorite for easy access. So, all in all, not to bad, just different than what I’m used to.

Notepad++ rules on pc.  I use textmate on my macbook but it’s the best out there for windows.  I’d like to find any kind of addon for EE code tho.. template tags and the like.  Let me know if you guys find anything like that.

been using it for about 4 years now (I think).

I was forced to find a new editor after work made me move to a PC earlier this year. I tried loads of editors before finding Notepad++ (I can’t believe how many rubbish ones there are!). It does everything I need and more and is very light weight. I love it (but I love TextMate on my Mac more!)

Notepad++ rules on pc.  I use textmate on my macbook but it’s the best out there for windows.  I’d like to find any kind of addon for EE code tho.. template tags and the like.  Let me know if you guys find anything like that.

Yeah and EE addon would be wonderful for NotePad++!

Yeah and EE addon would be wonderful for NotePad++!

Yeah just like that textmate addon for all those crazy mac people.