Auto format document with Notepad++

Question

In Visual Studio, (and a few other Microsoft editors), you can auto format a document with a simple Ctrl + K, Ctrl + D.

This inserts line breaks and tabbing automatically.

Is there a similar feature in Notepad++?

Answer 1

TextFX has the options to insert line breaks and tabbing:

Answer 2

For JavaScript, the JSTool plugin will do this job.

Answer 3

Download the "NppAutoIndent" plugin.  In Notepad++:

Plugins → Plugin manager → Available → NppAutoIndent

The "NppAutoIndent" plugin has 'smart' indentation for C-style languages, such as C/C++, PHP, and Java.  It's the first release, so don't expect it to be flawless, and of course it might not be completely to your preferences.  There is NO support for HTML/XML and such, maybe later, tag matching is much more difficult to implement.  To use it, select your code and:

TextFX → TextFX Edit → Reindent C++ code

If you cannot see TextFX in your menu, you can install its plugin from SourceForge.

References:

• SourceForge
• Notepad++ Home (notepad-plus-plus.org)
• Brief mention in Auto-indent in Notepad++ (on Stack Overflow)
• Reindenting C Source Code Files With Notepad++ (blog)

Answer 4

For markup / xml there's a plugin called 'XML Tools'.

This can be added via the plugin manager inside Notepad++.

Answer 5

Here are most of plugins to format your code.

JStool (JSmin):
UniversalIndentGUI ( Enable text auto update' in plugin manager-> UniversalIndentGUI
Shortkey = CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+J )

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TextFX : ( Shortkey = CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+B or TextFX > TextFX Html Tidy > Tidy: reindent XML) TextFX has the benefit of wrapping long lines, which XML Tools does not do, but doesn't indent those new lines correctly.

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XML Tools : (customized plugin for XML; Shortkey = CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+B or XML Tools > Pretty print [Text indent])
XML Tools complements TextFX by indenting the newly wrapped lines nicely.

Answer 6

For JSON documents, the JSON Viewer plugin allows a simple CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-M to format the json.