Category: Tips

February 5, 2015

Macros gone from Visual Studio, how do I do my simple text transforms now?

I discovered Macros in Notepad++, and they are perfect for plugging in a gaping hole in my toolbelt. Every once in a while, I had to transform text data. Maybe I had a comma separated list of values and I wanted to add quotes around them to turn them into a...

February 2, 2015

General purpose editor for programmers: Notepad++

For years, I did not have a standard light-weight text editor I would use under Windows. For my programming needs, there was no question what to use: if I had C# and related HTML/JavaScript source code, Visual Studio would do. PHP? I use PhpStorm. But what if I need to edit...