Is there a way to re-indent a block of code? I'm looking for something similar to Ctrl+Shift+F in Eclipse (Auto-Format/Indent).
To be clear,
I already know how to format XML outside of Notepad++ (Eclipse works fine, as mentioned) so I don't need a bunch of links to other XML-formatting tools.
I'm specifically working with XML and HTML.
Ideally, there's a keybinding as convenient as the one in Eclipse, so I don't have to break my workflow.
I already know about NppAutoIndent - it won't work, as I'm working with XML, HTML and CSS.
Since I upgraded to 6.3.2, I use XML Tools.
install XML Tools via the Plugin Admin (Plugins → Plugins Admin... Then search for "XML Tools", check its box and click the "Install" button).
use the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B (or
menu → Plugins → XML Tools → Pretty Print)
In older versions:
menu → TextFX → HTML Tidy → Tidy: Reindent XML.
Install Tidy2 plugin. I have Notepad++ v6.2.2, and Tidy2 works fine so far.
For those who don't know, npp has a lot of support from plugins and other projects. You can download those plugins from SourceForge.
You need XML Tools to format your text in n++
After you have downloaded XML Tools ..
Exit Notepad++
Go To C:\Program File\Notepad++ .... Your N++ installed folder.
Place below files from xml tools which you downloaded in the npp root folder by copy replace
Go To ..\Plugins subfolder and place below downloaded file
Restart and enjoy!!!
Ctrl + Alt + Shft + B to format.
It's been the third time that I install Windows and npp and after some time I realize the tidy function no longer work. So I google for a solution, come to this thread, then with the help of few more so threads I finally fix it. I'll put a summary of all my actions once and for all.
Install TextFX plugin: Plugins -> Plugin Manager -> Show Plugin Manager. Select TextFX Characters and install. After a restart of npp, the menu 'TextFX' should be visible. (credits: #remipod).
Install libtidy.dll by pasting the Config folder from an old npp package: Follow instructions in this answer.
After having a Config folder in your latest npp installation destination (typically C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins), npp needs write access to that folder. Right click Config folder -> Properties -> Security tab -> select Users, click Edit -> check Full control to allow read/write access. Note that you need administrator privileges to do that.
Restart npp and verify TextFX -> TextFX HTML Tidy -> Tidy: Reindent XML works.
Not exactly a solution but a workaround.
Notepad ++ doesn't provide any such feature by default. But you can use some online tools to autoformat text like https://www.freeformatter.com/xml-formatter.html.
I had to update the proxy settings under Plugins -> Plugin Manager -> Show Plugin Manager -> Settings to see any PlugIns in the "Available" list.
After that, installing "XML Tools" was easy and did the requested job as described above.
Just install the latest notepad++ and install indent By fold. On the menu bar select Plugins -> Plugins Admin and selct indent By fold and the install. Works finest
To directly answer the OP, take a look at this guy's site: Thomas Hunter Notepad++ Tidy for XML. Simple steps to follow and you get very nice formatting of your XML right inside NPP. So far the only anomaly I've found is with nested self closing elements EG:
<OuterTag>Text for outer element<SelfClosingTag/></OuterTag>
Will be tidied up to:
<OuterTag>Text for outer element
<SelfClosingTag/></OuterTag>
There may be a way to fix this, but for the time being, it's managed to reduce the number of lines in my document by 300k and this particular anomaly can be worked around.
I'm using Notepad 7.6 with "Plugin Admin" and I could not find XML Tools.
I had to install it manually like #some-java-guy did in his answer except that my plugins folder was located here: C:\Users\<my username>\AppData\Local\Notepad++\plugins
In that directory I created a new directory (named XmlTools) and copied XMLTools.dll there. (And I copied all dependencies to the Notepad++ directory in Program files.)
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Is there a way to re-indent a block of code? I'm looking for something similar to Ctrl+Shift+F in Eclipse (Auto-Format/Indent).
To be clear,
I already know how to format XML outside of Notepad++ (Eclipse works fine, as mentioned) so I don't need a bunch of links to other XML-formatting tools.
I'm specifically working with XML and HTML.
Ideally, there's a keybinding as convenient as the one in Eclipse, so I don't have to break my workflow.
I already know about NppAutoIndent - it won't work, as I'm working with XML, HTML and CSS.
Since I upgraded to 6.3.2, I use XML Tools.
install XML Tools via the Plugin Admin (Plugins → Plugins Admin... Then search for "XML Tools", check its box and click the "Install" button).
use the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B (or
menu → Plugins → XML Tools → Pretty Print)
In older versions:
menu → TextFX → HTML Tidy → Tidy: Reindent XML.
Install Tidy2 plugin. I have Notepad++ v6.2.2, and Tidy2 works fine so far.
For those who don't know, npp has a lot of support from plugins and other projects. You can download those plugins from SourceForge.
You need XML Tools to format your text in n++
After you have downloaded XML Tools ..
Exit Notepad++
Go To C:\Program File\Notepad++ .... Your N++ installed folder.
Place below files from xml tools which you downloaded in the npp root folder by copy replace
Go To ..\Plugins subfolder and place below downloaded file
Restart and enjoy!!!
Ctrl + Alt + Shft + B to format.
It's been the third time that I install Windows and npp and after some time I realize the tidy function no longer work. So I google for a solution, come to this thread, then with the help of few more so threads I finally fix it. I'll put a summary of all my actions once and for all.
Install TextFX plugin: Plugins -> Plugin Manager -> Show Plugin Manager. Select TextFX Characters and install. After a restart of npp, the menu 'TextFX' should be visible. (credits: #remipod).
Install libtidy.dll by pasting the Config folder from an old npp package: Follow instructions in this answer.
After having a Config folder in your latest npp installation destination (typically C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins), npp needs write access to that folder. Right click Config folder -> Properties -> Security tab -> select Users, click Edit -> check Full control to allow read/write access. Note that you need administrator privileges to do that.
Restart npp and verify TextFX -> TextFX HTML Tidy -> Tidy: Reindent XML works.
Not exactly a solution but a workaround.
Notepad ++ doesn't provide any such feature by default. But you can use some online tools to autoformat text like https://www.freeformatter.com/xml-formatter.html.
I had to update the proxy settings under Plugins -> Plugin Manager -> Show Plugin Manager -> Settings to see any PlugIns in the "Available" list.
After that, installing "XML Tools" was easy and did the requested job as described above.
Just install the latest notepad++ and install indent By fold. On the menu bar select Plugins -> Plugins Admin and selct indent By fold and the install. Works finest
To directly answer the OP, take a look at this guy's site: Thomas Hunter Notepad++ Tidy for XML. Simple steps to follow and you get very nice formatting of your XML right inside NPP. So far the only anomaly I've found is with nested self closing elements EG:
<OuterTag>Text for outer element<SelfClosingTag/></OuterTag>
Will be tidied up to:
<OuterTag>Text for outer element
<SelfClosingTag/></OuterTag>
There may be a way to fix this, but for the time being, it's managed to reduce the number of lines in my document by 300k and this particular anomaly can be worked around.
I'm using Notepad 7.6 with "Plugin Admin" and I could not find XML Tools.
I had to install it manually like #some-java-guy did in his answer except that my plugins folder was located here: C:\Users\<my username>\AppData\Local\Notepad++\plugins
In that directory I created a new directory (named XmlTools) and copied XMLTools.dll there. (And I copied all dependencies to the Notepad++ directory in Program files.)
when scripting for after effects I often use ExtendScript.
There is an extendscript package available for sublime text out there.
https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/ExtendScript
(this makes it possible to run your script directly from sublime text into after effects)
I was wondering if there is also something like this out there for any JetBrains IDEs (like WebStorm or PhpStorm etc.). I do know it has several plugins in it, but i don't know if there was ever one made for Expendscript like the one for sublime text.
I'm not aware of any... Please see http://devnet.jetbrains.com/message/5496889#5496889 for some hints
To be able to run adobe scripts from WebStorm, you can use external tools (Settings/External tools):
create a new external tool
specify a full path to Adobe tool capable of executing .jsx ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Photoshop.exe", for example) as a 'Program'
add $FileName$ as parameters
set a working directory to $FileDir$
make sure to check Show in/Project views and Editor menu to be able to run your tool from file right-click menu in Project view/Editor
then you'll be able to run your tool from a right-click menu of your .jsx file - the file will be passed to Photoshop as an argument
I would like to format my HTML with a command, as I do in Visual Studio, using Ctrl+K+D. Is this possible in Atom? If not, are there other options?
Atom does not have a built-in command for formatting html. However, you can install the atom-beautify package to get this behavior.
Press CTRL + SHFT + P to bring up the command palette (CMD + SHFT + P on a Mac).
Type Install Packages to bring up the package manager.
Type beautify into the search box.
Choose atom-beautify or one of the other packages and click Install.
Now you can use the default keybinding for atom-beautify CTRL + ALT + B to beautify your HTML (CTRL + OPTION + B on a Mac).
There are a few packages for prettifying HTML. You can find them by searching the Atom package archive:
Navigate to the Atom site
Click the Packages link
Enter "prettify" in the search box
Or just go to this link: https://atom.io/packages/search?q=prettify
Once you've selected a package that does what you want you can install it by using the command: apm install [package name] from the command line or install it using the interface in Preferences.
When the package is installed, follow its instructions for how to activate its capabilities.
https://github.com/Glavin001/atom-beautify
Includes many different languages, html too..
You can add atom beauty package for formatting text in atom..
file --> setting --> Install
then you type atom-beautify in search area.
then click Package button..
select atom beuty and install it.
next you can format your text using (Alt + ctrl + b)
or
right click and select beautify editor contents
Go to "Packages" in atom editor.
Then in "Packages" view choose "Settings View".
Choose "Install Packages/Themes".
Search for "Atom Beautify" and install it.
Not Just HTML, Using atom-beautify - Package for Atom, you can format code for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Coldfusion, SQL, and more) in Atom within a matter of seconds.
To Install the atom-beautify package :
Open Atom Editor.
Press Ctrl+Shift+P (Cmd+Shift+P on mac), this will open the atom Command Palette.
Search and click on Install Packages & Themes. A Install Package window comes up.
Search for Beautify package, you will see a lot of beautify packages. Install any. I will recommend for atom-beautify.
Now Restart atom and TADA! now you are ready for quick formatting.
To Format text Using atom-beautify :
Go to the file you want to format.
Hit Ctrl+Alt+B (Ctrl+Option+B on mac).
Your file is formatted in seconds.
I have a bunch of snippets installed. Some of them are intrusive and I would like to change their tab insertion code. Is there any way to quickly open the edit file of a snippet that I find from the Control+Shift+P directory?
For Sublime Text 2, in a word, no. The Command Palette does not have that functionality built-in. However, if you select Preferences -> Browse Packages... your OS will open up an Explorer/Finder/Nautilus/whatever window of the Packages directory. All packages/plugins are in (hopefully clearly-named) subdirectories, so if you don't like some Rails snippets, for example, look in the Rails directory for a likely file with a .sublime-snippet extension. These files are XML-based, and can be opened right in Sublime for editing.
Please note that this method only works in this straightforward manner with Sublime Text 2. In ST3, unless otherwise specified by the package author, all packages are in .sublime-package zipfiles, and are stored in a few different locations. To ease things, my good friend #skuroda wrote the PackageResourceViewer plugin, which allows the user to navigate through ST3 packages, view/edit files contained therein, and expand whole packages to the aforementioned Packages directory for editing of any file.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to format code in Notepad++ ?
I'm mainly working with HTML, CSS and Python code.
For example:
<title>{% block title %} {% endblock %}</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
To:
<head>
<title>
{% block title %}
{% endblock %}
</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
I remember Visual Studio doing it with Ctrl+K+D and NetBeans having the feature too but can't find it within Notepad++, if it can even do it.
TextFX -> HTML Tidy -> Tidy: Reindent XML
Remember to have the HTML code selected before you do this.
there is such a plugin as UniversalIndentGUI, it can be installed right from the plugin manager and has possibilities to reindent the most used programming languages.
If you go to TextFX menu and go to TextFX Edit, you will see a menu item Reindent C++ Code.
That will also format C# code.
ANSWER AS OF June 2019
Install the XML Tools plugin from the Plugin Admin (in Notepad++ 7.7 at least)
Then click Plugins -> XML Tools -> Pretty Print (XML Only with Line breaks)
That did it for me.
Here is a list of the available shortcuts in Notepad++.
In case your desired functionality is not available, you are able to define own macros and assign them to a custom shortcut (i am not used to use macros).
UPDATE: I will post the shortcuts here in case the link gets invalid:
Shortcut Command
Ctrl-C Copy
Ctrl-X Cut
Ctrl-V Paste
Ctrl-Z Undo
Ctrl-Y Redo
Ctrl-A Select All
Ctrl-F Launch Find Dialog
Ctrl-H Launch Find / Replace Dialog
Ctrl-D Duplicate Current Line
Ctrl-L Delete Current Line
Ctrl-T Switch the current line position with the previous line position
F3 Find Next
Shft-F3 Find Previous
Ctrl-Shft-F Find in Files
Ctrl-F3 Find (volatil) Next
Ctrl-Shft-F3 Find (volatil) Previous
Ctrl-Shft-I Incremental Search
Ctrl-S Save File
Ctrl-Alt-S Save As
Ctrl-Shft-S Save All
Ctrl-O Open File
Ctrl-N New File
Ctrl-F2 Toggle Bookmark
F2 Go To Next Bookmark
Shft-F2 Go To Previous Bookmark
Ctrl-G Launch GoToLine Dialog
Ctrl-W Close Current Document
Alt-Shft-Arrow keys or Alt + Left mouse click Column Mode Select
F5 Launch Run Dialog
Ctrl-Space Launch CallTip ListBox
Alt-Space Launch Word Completion ListBox
Tab (selection of several lines) Insert Tabulation or Space (Indent)
Shft-Tab (selection of several lines) Remove Tabulation or Space (outdent)
Ctrl-(Keypad-/Keypad+) or Ctrl + mouse wheel butto Zoom in (+ or up) and Zoom out (- or down)
Ctrl-Keypad/ Restore the original size from zoom
F11 Toggle Full Screen Mode
Ctrl-Tab Next Document
Ctrl-Shft-Tab Previous Document
Ctrl-Shft-Up Move Current Line Up
Ctrl-Shft-Down Move Current Line Down
Ctrl-Alt-F Collapse the Current Level
Ctrl-Alt-Shft-F Uncollapse the Current Level
Alt-0 Fold All
Alt-(1~8) Collapse the Level (1~8)
Alt-Shft-0 Unfold All
Alt-Shft-(1~8) Uncollapse the Level (1~8)
Ctrl-BackSpace Delete to start of word
Ctrl-Delete Delete to end of word
Ctrl-Shft-BackSpace Delete to start of line
Ctrl-Shft-Delete Delete to end of line
Ctrl-U Convert to lower case
Ctrl-Shft-U Convert to UPPER CASE
Ctrl-B Go to matching brace
Ctrl-Shft-R Start to record /Stop recording the macro
Ctrl-Shft-P Play recorded macro
Ctrl-Q Block comment/uncomment
Ctrl-Shft-Q Stream comment
Ctrl-Shft-T Copy current line to clipboard
Ctrl-P Print
Alt-F4 Exit
Ctrl-I Split Lines
Ctrl-J Join Lines
Ctrl-Alt-R Text Direction RTL
Ctrl-Alt-L Text Direction LT
F1 About
The latest plugin is tidy2, which can be installed through Plugins>Plugin Manager>Show Plugin Manager.
I suggest editing config 1 and setting quote-marks: no, especially if you have script that makes use of quotes.
Also, tidying more than once can result in inserting ampersands the first time and then replacing the ampersands the second time. You may want to play with the config to get it to where you need it.
For JavaScript Formatting I use Notepad ++ JSMin Plugin.Quite Handy
This isn't quite the answer you were looking for, but it's the solution I came to when I had the same question.
[update - I'm using vscode now for everything. I think it works better in a lot of cases.]
I'm a pretty serious Notepad++ user, so don't take this the wrong way. I have started using NetBeans 8 to develop websites in addition to Notepad++ because you can set it to autoformat on save for all your languages, and there are a ton of configuration options for how the formatting looks, down to the most minute detail. You might look into it and find it is a worthy tool to use in conjunction with notepad++. It's also open source, completely free, and has a bunch of plugins and other useful things like automatically compiling Sass if you use that too. It's definitely not as quick as NP++ so it's not great for small edits, but it can be nice for a long coding session.
In my notepad++, it seems TextFX needs a perl environment to format HTML files. Tidy2 demands nothing so I think it's more handy.
If all you need is alignment, try the plugin called Code Alignment.
You can get it from the built-in plugin manager in Notepad++.
We can use the following shortcut in the latest version of notepad++ for formatting the code
Alt + Ctrl + Shift + B
In Plugins > Plugin Admin > Search 'XML Tools' > Install.
The window will restart and install XML Tools under plugins.
Open your file and click Ctrl + Alt + Shift + B
No. Notepad++ can't format by itself. Formatting can easily be accomplished in many IDEs like Eclipse, NetBeans, Visual Studio [Code].
Another Potential Solution
Okay, so it's been 12 years since this question was asked. I think that I've found a another acceptable solution, that is perhaps better for formatting files, using Prettier.
What is Prettier?
Prettier is described as: "an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary."
Prettier Supports the Following Languages
HTML
CSS, Less, and SCSS
JavaScript
TypeScript
JSX, Angular, Vue
JSON, Markdown, YAML
And a few others.
If You Want to Use Other Languages, You Can Either Use:
Plugins made by the community to Prettier, which allow support for other formats such: Java, Rust, PHP, SQL, and others.
Non-Prettier formatters supporting other languages such as clang-format (npm version) (C / C++ / Java / JavaScript / JSON / Objective-C / Protobuf / C#), or Black (Python).
How To Install
You're going to need to install Node.js for this tutorial.
Note: There may be other work arounds for using the subsequent
mentioned software without using Node.js. But to keep this tutorial
simple and the fact that Node.js already carries widespread
familiarity among developers, I'm going to be using this software
without explaining how to install it.
After installing Node.js, install prettier globally to your system, allowing yourself to run prettier anywhere from the command line.
# NPM is the package manager used by Node.js
# And --global allows you to use prettier anywhere on your local computer.
npm install --global prettier
# To install other plugins (example):
npm install --g prettier-plugin-rust prettier-plugin-java
# To Install clang-format using NPM
npm install -g clang-format
# Usage Examples
prettier --write jquery-min.js # Formatting a JavaScript file
clang-format -i Test.cpp # Formatting C++ file
On Notepad++, install a plugin called NppExec from Menu> Plugins Admin...> Available> NppExec.
You can now run NppExec by either pressing F6 or by clicking Menu > Plugins > NppExec > Execute NppExec Script...
Now you should have a window pop up, giving you the option of executing a command.
You can either use prettier on a (1) specific file or (2) all files in a folder or (3) all files in a directory recursively.
You can always reload a file after it's better overwritten by Prettier using Ctrl+R, and enabling the following setting: Menu > MISC. > Update silently.
Commands and Screenshots of NppExec + Prettier.
REM Using Prettier on Current File (use cmd or powershell /c)
cmd /c prettier --write "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"
REM Using Prettier on Current Folder (a single asterisk)
pwsh /c prettier --write "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)\*"
REM Using Prettier on Current Directory Recursively (double asterisk)
pwsh /c prettier --write "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)\**"
Install NppExec Plugin
Running NppExec Plugin
Executing Commands on NppExec
NPP+ v7.9.1 with the latest version of XMLTools can't format exported VBA code from Office 2016/2019 Word. It puts all the code on the same line since it strips the CRLF out. Moreover, when you enable "auto validation" it errors out on the first VBA line that is, Attribute VB_Name = "The VBA module name". So any of the xml tool validations apparently can't be used for VBA validation.