Formatting code in Notepad

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Is there a keyboard shortcut to format code in Notepad     I m mainly working with HTML  CSS and Python code   For example    lt title gt    block title          endblock    lt  title gt          lt link rel  stylesheet  href   media style css  type  text css  media  screen    gt   lt  head gt    To    lt head gt     lt title gt         block title           endblock       lt  title gt     lt link rel  stylesheet  href   media style css  type  text css  media  screen    gt   lt  head gt     I remember Visual Studio doing it with Ctrl K D and NetBeans having the feature too but can t find it within Notepad    if it can even do it

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This isn t quite the answer you were looking for  but it s the solution I came to when I had the same question   I m a pretty serious Notepad   user  so don t take this the wrong way   I have started using NetBeans 8 to develop websites in addition to Notepad   because you can set it to autoformat on save for all your languages  and there are a ton of configuration options for how the formatting looks  down to the most minute detail   You might look into it and find it is a worthy tool to use in conjunction with notepad     It s also open source  completely free  and has a bunch of plugins and other useful things like automatically compiling Sass if you use that too   It s definitely not as quick as NP   so it s not great for small edits  but it can be nice for a long coding session

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No  Notepad   can t format by itself  Formatting can easily be accomplished in many IDEs like Eclipse  NetBeans  Visual Studio  Code

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Here is a list of the available shortcuts in Notepad     In case your desired functionality is not available  you are able to define own macros and assign them to a custom shortcut  i am not used to use macros    UPDATE  I will post the shortcuts here in case the link gets invalid   Shortcut    Command  Ctrl-C  Copy Ctrl-X  Cut Ctrl-V  Paste Ctrl-Z  Undo Ctrl-Y  Redo Ctrl-A  Select All Ctrl-F  Launch Find Dialog Ctrl-H  Launch Find   Replace Dialog Ctrl-D  Duplicate Current Line Ctrl-L  Delete Current Line Ctrl-T  Switch the current line position with the previous line position F3  Find Next Shft-F3 Find Previous Ctrl-Shft-F Find in Files Ctrl-F3 Find  volatil  Next Ctrl-Shft-F3    Find  volatil  Previous Ctrl-Shft-I Incremental Search Ctrl-S  Save File Ctrl-Alt-S  Save As Ctrl-Shft-S Save All Ctrl-O  Open File Ctrl-N  New File Ctrl-F2 Toggle Bookmark F2  Go To Next Bookmark  Shft-F2 Go To Previous Bookmark Ctrl-G  Launch GoToLine Dialog Ctrl-W  Close Current Document Alt-Shft-Arrow keys or Alt   Left mouse click   Column Mode Select F5  Launch Run Dialog Ctrl-Space  Launch CallTip ListBox Alt-Space   Launch Word Completion ListBox Tab  selection of several lines     Insert Tabulation or Space  Indent  Shft-Tab  selection of several lines    Remove Tabulation or Space  outdent  Ctrl- Keypad- Keypad   or Ctrl   mouse wheel butto  Zoom in    or up  and Zoom out  - or down  Ctrl-Keypad     Restore the original size from zoom  F11 Toggle Full Screen Mode Ctrl-Tab    Next Document Ctrl-Shft-Tab   Previous Document Ctrl-Shft-Up    Move Current Line Up Ctrl-Shft-Down  Move Current Line Down Ctrl-Alt-F  Collapse the Current Level Ctrl-Alt-Shft-F Uncollapse the Current Level Alt-0   Fold All Alt- 1 8    Collapse the Level  1 8  Alt-Shft-0  Unfold All Alt-Shft- 1 8   Uncollapse the Level  1 8  Ctrl-BackSpace  Delete to start of word Ctrl-Delete Delete to end of word Ctrl-Shft-BackSpace Delete to start of line Ctrl-Shft-Delete    Delete to end of line Ctrl-U  Convert to lower case Ctrl-Shft-U Convert to UPPER CASE Ctrl-B  Go to matching brace Ctrl-Shft-R Start to record  Stop recording the macro Ctrl-Shft-P Play recorded macro Ctrl-Q  Block comment uncomment Ctrl-Shft-Q Stream comment Ctrl-Shft-T Copy current line to clipboard Ctrl-P  Print Alt-F4  Exit Ctrl-I  Split Lines Ctrl-J  Join Lines Ctrl-Alt-R  Text Direction RTL Ctrl-Alt-L  Text Direction LT F1  About

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We can use the following shortcut in the latest version of notepad   for formatting the code  Alt   Ctrl   Shift   B

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NPP  v7 9 1 with the latest version of XMLTools can t format exported VBA code from Office 2016 2019 Word  It puts all the code on the same line since it strips the CRLF out  Moreover  when you enable  quot auto validation quot  it errors out on the first VBA line that is  Attribute VB Name    quot The VBA module name quot    So any of the xml tool validations apparently can t be used for VBA validation

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If all you need is alignment  try the plugin called Code Alignment   You can get it from the built-in plugin manager in Notepad

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TextFX -  HTML Tidy -  Tidy  Reindent XML  Remember to have the HTML code selected before you do this

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In my notepad    it seems TextFX needs a perl environment to format HTML files  Tidy2 demands nothing so I think it s more handy

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For JavaScript Formatting I use Notepad    JSMin Plugin Quite Handy

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The latest plugin is tidy2  which can be installed through Plugins Plugin Manager Show Plugin Manager   I suggest editing config 1 and setting quote-marks  no  especially if you have script that makes use of quotes    Also  tidying more than once can result in inserting ampersands the first time and then replacing the ampersands the second time  You may want to play with the config to get it to where you need it

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there is such a plugin as UniversalIndentGUI  it can be installed right from the plugin manager and has possibilities to reindent the most used programming languages

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If you go to TextFX menu and go to TextFX Edit  you will see a menu item Reindent C   Code   That will also format C  code

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In Plugins  gt  Plugin Admin  gt  Search  XML Tools   gt  Install  The window will restart and install XML Tools under plugins  Open your file and click Ctrl   Alt   Shift   B

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ANSWER AS OF June 2019  Install the XML Tools plugin from the Plugin Admin  in Notepad   7 7 at least   Then click Plugins -  XML Tools -  Pretty Print  XML Only with Line breaks   That did it for me

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