npptextfxdemo.txt

notepad ++ opensource

Bugs: Indent & Surround is messing up CRLF line endings
Bugs: Delete Blank lines won't delete every line if only blank lines are marked.

To install this plugin, unpack NPPTextFX.DLL and NPPTextFX\*.HTM;*.TXT ;*.INI to the plugins folder in the N++ install folder then load N++. Delete those files without N++ running to remove the plugin. If everything is working, a Plugins menu will appear and the new tool should be listed under it.

To develop this plugin if you have the source, unpack the entire structure to the plugins folder. Dev-C++ and Code::Blocks projects are provided. All the compilers are supported but OpenWatcom32 1.3 produces a DLL that is incompatible with Windows 98. 

To view this demo, load it into Notepad++ and perform the actions suggested to see how they work. If many tools are similar, only a few may be shown. No descriptions will be provided for tools that are totally obvious.

**Demo: Characters Menu
**Demo: NPPTextFX

Programmers waste lots of time and make lots of mistakes doing repetetive but simple tasks. TextFX performs a lot of very odd transforms the purpose and usage of which may not be immediately obvious from the menu descriptions even if you perform them manually on a regular basis. Because of the limited user interface implemented, some transforms require obscure actions on your part. This demo will show you in detail what the transforms do and how they are used. Always remember that no matter what happens, Notepad++ can undo it so you can try again, unless of course, you ask TextFX to erase the Undo Buffer. 

**Demo: Quote Changers & Text Converters all require some text to be selected

You are often programming several languages at once and each may have different quote ("') rules. The Quote Changers allow you to alter quotes in large blocks in ways that are neither easy nor reliable with normal or regex search and replace. The rules are not tied to the current language selected since some languages are embedded in others.

... This PHP code is incorrect since proper HTML tolerates ' but prefers ". 
echo "<Action type='1' message='2170' wParam='0' lParam='0' sParam=' ' />\n";
... We can use the Swap Quotes to alter it to this:
echo '<Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam=" " />\n';
... but that is still not correct because \n does not expand inside of 'PHP' strings.
... Undo that and Escape ' to \" to get the correct result.
echo "<Action type=\"1\" message=\"2170\" wParam=\"0\" lParam=\"0\" sParam=\" \" />\n";
... Doing this is neither reliable nor easy with search and replace.

**Demo: Zap all characters

This tool is usually used with a rectangular selection on text that is in columns. All it does is convert every character to a space, useful for erasing columns so that new text can be written in. It easily zaps all characters in a non rectangular selection but I can't think of any reason why this would be useful. Zapping all non 

**Demo: Zap all non printable characters to #

No compiler will accept following math but it's not immediately obvious where the problem is. Mark it and zap all characters to # and you'll immediately see what the compiler doesn't like. Any character that isn't a part of standard ASCII (32-126 TAB CR LF) is replaced with a # sign. Typically you'll want to undo any changes this tool makes and manually make the corrections. The purpose is to make it easy to find where the odd characters are.

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