Updated: July 1, 2020 (TopMost)
Quick survey on what’s coming:
- DSpellCheck.
- Quick Color Picker.
- MarkdownViewerPlusPlus.
- TopMost.
- MenuIcons.
- TextFX.
- Plugin Manager.
DSpellCheck » .
Thanks to this plug-in spell-checking became much simpler, faster and more convenient than in case of Microsoft Word’s. Besides, it has fantastic features:
You can instantaneously auto-correct a desired word: just click anywhere on it and press a keyboard shortcut of Your choice.
You can quickly go to the next misspelled word - also by a dedicated keyboard shortcut.
You can even choose (from a several different styles) a way how a misspelled word will be marked/underlined/visually distinguished.
Quick Color Picker » .
If You are a programmer and often incorporates color definitions, this plugin You might find invaluable. Its most fantastic features in my opinion are:
- It underlines color definitions using the defined color itself as the underlining color (!).
As a result You can tell what (color) is what already at one glimpse.
- It allows You to grab a color from anywhere on the screen and insert it directly into the code :) .
- It also allows You to adjust any desired color to Your liking.
MarkdownViewerPlusPlus » .
This plugin supports Markdown within Notepad++ itself :) .
If You don’t know what Markdown is - here You are a few posts on that in which You’ll find out how it may significantly improve Your writing/publishing workflow.
The plugin can:
- Display live Markdown-powered text preview on the side :) .
Note: if You know CSS, You can adjust how it will be looking like - via CSS commands of Your choice. - Export the text e.g., into .pdf - or as HTML into the Clipboard.
TopMost » .
When it comes to GUI and design of various kinds - I love smooky glass visual effect. For a long time now I’ve been using it within CygWin terminal, but today (July 1, 2020) I missed that effect regarding Notepad++ :) . I did some research and found out that there is a plug-in which can do that (among a few other features), and it is called TopMost. Soon after I tested it and can say that, indeed, it works pretty well, transparency level adjustment included :) .
MenuIcons » .
Thanks to this one You can make Notepad++ more intuitive in use: it adds accompanying icons to Notepad++ menu commands, so You may faster find what You want at the moment.
TextFX » .
It provides You with many advanced things You can do with text.
Plugin Manager » .
This is a built-in plugin catalog which allows You to browse, search, download and update various plug-ins. In reality, however, I often find this plugin not working in my case, showing an error:
“There was an error downloading the plugin list. Please check your internet connection, and your proxy settings in Internet Explorer, Edge or Chrome.”
You can find, however, all the plug-ins gathered in one place here: 32-bit and 64-bit.
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