Some text editors, like Notepad2, have the ability to run the file that's being edited. Can this be done with Notepad++?
How to launch a program from Notepad++
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Yes. Notepad++ has a latest release 5.5.1 has some built in themes you can take advantage of. If you want little bit more customization, you can change the colors of every element in UI as you want.
Quick google search shows that there a vibrant community of TextMate(Mac Editor) has a good themes. http://joyboner.com/60-free-textmate-notepad-styler-themes/ will show you how to convert those themes for notepad++.
From http://joyboner.com/60-free-textmate-notepad-styler-themes/:
Step 1. Assuming you already have Notepad++ installed, navigate your browser over to the Textmate Theme Directory.
Step 2. Choose a rad looking theme and download it.
Step 3. Fire up Notepad++ and open the .tmTheme file you just downloaded.
Step 4. Select all (Ctrl+A) and copy (Ctrl+C)
Step 5. Now navigate your browser over to the theme converter page.
Step 6. Paste what you copied from Notepad++ into the big textbox and click the download button and save the file.
Step 7. In Explorer, navigate to: C:\Documents and Settings\%%USERNAME%%\Application Data\Notepad++\
Step 8. Locate the original styler theme file (stylers.xml) and rename it to something like original.stylers.xml
Step 9. Take the file you downloaded from Step 6 and move it to the location in Step 7.
Step 10. Rename the file you just moved to stylers.xml
Step 11. Close Notepad++ and reopen it.
Step 12. Enjoy your new colors!
Hope this helps.
Here's a quick answer that works perfectly. It's based on @bubu's answer, but massively simplified to make it easier:
- Open RegEdit
- Go to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\notepad++.exe\DefaultIcon(IfDefaultIcondoesn't exist, create it underNew > key) - Create a new string value and set it to
C:\Windows\System32\Shell32.dll,70
It should look something like this when you're done:
This will set ALL files associated with NotePad++ to the default .txt icon in Windows 10. (The text document icon is the 70th icon in Shell32.dll.)
Simply sign out and back in to see the change.
For other versions of Windows the .txt icon won't be the 70th one, so to pick the one you want, simply open Shell32.dll after selecting "Change Icon", and count to the icon you want to use like so:
1 5 9 13
2 6 10 14
3 7 11 etc
4 8 12
Best Answer
First close Notepad++, then find the file shortcuts.xml, usually in:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Notepad++Open it up with something other than Notepad++ (perhaps notepad.exe) and add something like this to the file within the
<UserDefinedCommands></UserDefinedCommands>tags:That will launch the (saved) file with its default application.
Save the changes and then load up Notepad++ to see your new entries in the Run menu.
Important: do not edit
shortcuts.xmlwith Notepad++ itself as the shortcuts.xml file is overwritten when the program shuts down (overwriting any changes you made).