I have been using Notepad++ for years now, it is the Swiss Army Knife of text editors. It supports text, html, css, php, sql, java, javascript, python, and xml just to name a few the list goes on and on. It also has a ton of features that I use all the time.
Notepad++ also features plugins, and comes preinstalled with a few. The other day completely by accident I discovered that one of the plugins is an FTP client.
The highlighted icon brings up the NppFTP plugin allowing you to open files from a remote location, edit them, and save them back all in one move. Wish I had known about this a long time ago, makes me wonder what else is hidden in Notepad++ that I haven’t discovered yet.
A list of available plugins is here one of these days I really need to go through it and see what else I can add to Notepad++.
If you have a Notepad++ tip of your own feel free to drop it in a comment trust me it will be appreciated.
As usual, I always seem to learn new stuff from you on a daily basis… 🙂 Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks.. I’m going to download Notepad++ today!
Thanks for this post – I’ve been using N++ for years and had no idea it had this functionality. 🙂
Cool stuff, Mitch! Shocking as it is, I’ve never used Notepad++, I’m going to check it out right now 🙂
Ditto, Tom…
As a LONG time Notepad++ user there are 2 plugins worth looking at are JSmin which runs Douglas Crockford’s JSMin algorithm on current javascript document. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsminnpp/
And JSONViewer
http://nppjsonviewer.sourceforge.net/
Both of which I find rather useful …
Steve
I was searching for an FTP client plugin for Chrome (if there’s one) before deciding to switch from Firefox 8 to Chrome. And then I read this great piece of good news!
I commonly use Xammplite, Firebug, FireFtp, Windows Grep and Notepad++ for website development.