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The method described at the end of this blog entry has instructions for making Notepad++ (or any application) the default text editor for IE7's View Source feature. The problem is, the file IE7 sends to Notepad++ has no extension (in particular, does not have an .html extension) and therefore is displayed as plain text in Notepad++. Is there anyway to tell Notepad++ to use HTML as the Language in this scenario? Perhaps the registry value can be modified to pass an argument to notepad++.exe indicating the language to use...

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In Preferences > New document set the default language to HTML. This work either for new files and files without extension.

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Thanks Alberto, I was aware of the default language setting, but I'm not prepared to go that route -- I'd rather keep plain text as the default in general. – Stephen Swensen Nov 19 '10 at 22:05
For files with extensions the proper route would be add the extension in Settings > Style configurator, but it doesn't work for files without extensions (I tried tricks like . and " " and doesn't work). I'm afraid that the New document route is the only way for that files. – Alberto Martinez Nov 20 '10 at 21:27
OK, thanks @Alberto, not ideal but most of my files do have extensions so this should probably be OK. BTW: to be a bit more detailed, it's Settings > Preferences... > New Document/Default Directory > Default language – Stephen Swensen Dec 1 '10 at 19:21
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