I like pulling up XML files (which I do sometimes edit, e.g., for FreeFileSync) in Notepad++ because it does a nice job of coloring the tags and different nesting levels, resulting in fewer mistakes for an incipient Mr.

I’m not a coder, so I don’t have much call for advanced functions in programs like Notepad++ and, accordingly, don’t go looking for them. Notepad++ returns all hits sorted by file and line afterwards.Īll that is left is to go through the results line by line to find what you are looking for (which I did not by the way, but that is another story).

The search time depends largely on your selection, but should not take long. Last but not least, you may use the replace option to replace the text you entered with other text.Ĭlick find all to get started. You may also enable match whole word or match case options, or switch from a normal search mode to an extended search mode or one that uses regular expressions. *.css or *.php, or file names, finance.* are included in the search. You can change filters, so that only certain file types, e.g. Optional parameters may be useful however. If you leave everything as is, Notepad++ will crawl all files of the selected root folder and all subfolders that it contains, and return all hits at the end of the search. Notepad++ searches all subfolders as well by default.Īll other fields are optional.

Directory: this is the root folder that contains all the files that you want searched.

Find What: this is the search string that you want Notepad++ to find in the files.

What you need to configure are the following fields:

Notepad ++ sort by name