Questions tagged [notepad2]
14 questions
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How do I replace Notepad in Windows 7?
I use Notepad2. I love Notepad2.
How do I replace Notepad with Notepad2 in Windows 7, so I never use the old version of Notepad again?
David Basarab
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Notepad2 or Notepad++ and why?
Why should I choose one over the other, or should I go another way?
lox
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Is there any straightforward way to replace notepad.exe in Windows 11?
After upgrading to Win 11 a bit over a week ago, I found that my Image File Execution (i.e. HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\notepad.exe) replacement for Notepad was no longer working; all my text files…
Alex Essilfie
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How to set Notepad2 to use UTF-8 instead of ANSI
Each time I create a new file in Notepad2, the encoding is ANSI (1252).
I'd like instead to have UTF-8 as default. Is there a way to get this ?
asksuperuser
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Notepad2 horizontal scrolling issue
I love Notepad2, but the one thing that is starting to make me want to ditch it is the horizontal scrolling quirk that prevents you from using the scrollbar to scroll all the way out to the right in text files with very long lines. You can still…
oscilatingcretin
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Execute C/C++ program in Notepad2
So I have MinGW and with tweaking, I can run GCC in my CMD. What format do I need to have the file in to run it from the CMD? I tried simply just saving a notepad2 file in C scheme and it won't recognize it.
Wut_wut
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How to get Notepad2 to show Recently Use Files?
It never saves my most recently used files at all. How do I enable this?
AngryHacker
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AutoHotKey: copy file from Windows Explorer, paste path to Notepad2
I'm searching for a way to do that.
Using ArsClip's Clipboard Bar, I see that when I select a file o Windows Explorer and copy it, its full path is stored on clipboard.
If I keep selecting Windows Explorer and paste, that file is copied to current…
Hikari
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How to manipulate this string of text to make it readable?
I have this string in an excel file:
4603,2504603#;4616,2504616#;4617,2504617#;4519,2504519#;4620,2504620
(It's actually a lot longer than that, but the pattern is the same).
I need to be able to some how sort this into something that can be read…
Kenny
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How do I change the default IE Html Editor to Notepad2 on Windows 7
so that when I view source it is notepad2 that opens the doc up. I already have notepad2 downloaded.
Ray
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How to set Notepad2 to use Unix newlines (LF) by default
Each time I create a new file in Notepad2, the default line break is
Windows-style:
a carriage return (CR) followed by a line feed (LF).
How can I instead set Unix-style line endings (LF) as default?
Henke
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Where Windows 11 update keep a backup of unsaved Notepad window (specially before update that requires restart)?
On Windows 11, I had an OS update (while I was not there) and PC restarted automatically, and I found that any unsaved Notepad window was kept with its content as is. (which means Windows has stored backup of it somewhere)
The problem I'm facing now…
Omar
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How to insert line numbers using Notepad2
I am using Notepad2 in Windows for editing text files and I would like to add line numbers to the currently selected lines. Is it possible to do that?
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Does Notepad2 have a multiline mode for regex find/replace?
Completely rewriting this question since I've discovered the tru source of the problem.
I have the following text file:
strUpdateSql.Append(" this is a string ,")
strUpdateSql.Append(" that has multiple lines ,")
strUpdateSql.Append(" which…
oscilatingcretin
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