Some Great and Necessary plugins for Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

Jeez Tech uses Notepad++ all the time, from programming to text writing and even for more things you can’t imagine… How? By using some of Notepad++’s plugins.

This is a list of the plugins we use:

• Color Picker
  A colour picker which translates your selected colour in hexadecimal.
• Compare Plugin
  A very useful diff plugin to show the difference between 2 files (side by side).
• DBGP
  This is a php debugger (XDebug) which talks DBGP protocol. Use this plugin to transform your Notepad++ to a php IDE.
• Explorer
  Explorer plugin is a file browser. You can open whatever you want from it in Notepad++, just double click!
• FTP Synchronize
  A FTP client which is integrated in Notepad++ seamlessly. Open a php file from a server of distance, modify it, save it and try it on your browser directly just like you work locally.
• Hex Editor
  It’s a damn good Hex Editor – works seamlessly with Notepad++
• LanguageHelp
  LanguageHelp allows to run a language specific help file (CHM, HLP, PDF) and search for the keyword under the cursor. The latest versions allow also to show the help file as menu entries for quick launch.
• MultiClipboard
  MultiClipboard plugin implements multiple (10) text buffers that is filled up via copying and/or cutting of text.
• NppExport
  It allows you not only to save your source code as a html/rtf file, but also to copy your source code in the clipboard in RTF/HTML format, so you can paste it into your word processor (MS Word, Abiword, openoffice.org Writer) to get the same visual effect.
• Window Manager
  What if you can have a short overview of your open documents in Notepad++.This overview is dockable and gave you the full capability as the tabs have.
• XML Tools
  This plugin is a small set of useful tools for editing XML with Notepad++. The plugin is libXML2-based.

Do you use any of these plugins? Do you use other plugins we might not be aware of? Please let us know.

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