Notepad++ User Manual

Notepad++ User Manual is built collaboratively, and your contribution is very welcome. Before submitting a pull request (PR), please check our contribution rules to prevent your PR from being rejected.

Summary

• Getting started
• Working with Files
• Editing
• Searching
• Views
• Sessions, Workspaces, and Projects
• Function List
• Auto-Completion
• Syntax Highlighting - Built-in Languages
• Syntax Highlighting - User Defined Languages
• Macros - Task Automation
• Running External Commands
• Plugins
• Plugin Communication
• Command Line Arguments
• Preferences
• Configuration Files Details
• Themes
• Localization - User Interface Translation
• User Interface
• Upgrading
• Right Click - Edit with Notepad++
• Ghost Typing
• Other Resources
• User Manual History
• Copyright & License

How to test site locally

Notepad++ User Manual website is generated by Hugo by using hugo-book theme. In order to visualize the site (with your modification) on your computer locally, you have to download Hugo extended version firstly (v0.68.3 is currently recommended for compatibility purposes). Go to the root of Notepad++ User Manual repository under your bash shell (use Git bash under windows) then type HUGODIR\hugo.exe -d static_html --theme hugo-book-9 --baseURL "http://localhost:1313" server

donh@MYPC MINGW64 /c/myRepos/npp-usermanual (master)
$ /c/myApps/hugo/hugo.exe -d static_html --theme hugo-book-9 --baseURL "http://localhost:1313" server
Building sites …
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  Pages            |  45
  Paginator pages  |   0
  Non-page files   | 161
  Static files     |  80
  Processed images |   0
  Aliases          |   0
  Sitemaps         |   1
  Cleaned          |   0

Built in 273 ms
Watching for changes in C:\myRepos\npp-usermanual\{content,layouts,themes}
Watching for config changes in C:\myRepos\npp-usermanual\config.toml
Environment: "development"
Serving pages from C:\myRepos\npp-usermanual\static_html
Running in Fast Render Mode. For full rebuilds on change: hugo server --disableFastRender
Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
Press Ctrl+C to stop

Type http://localhost:1313/ on the adress bar of your browser et voilà!