Some useful Notepad++ plug-ins!

Notepad++ is, arguably, one of the best text editors available for Windows environment. The editor is very light and it provides lots of basic features like tabbed browsing, multiple language support and some of the advanced features like code folding, auto-completion, etc. I was a big fan of SciTE and had been using it until I meet Notepad++. After all, both the editors are based on Scintilla editor library and Notepad++ looks like a more polished version of SciTE. Notepad++ supports the extension capability – the plug-in system.

Here are some of my favorite plug-ins:

• Compare plug-in. With this plug-in, one can easily compare 2 files from within Notepad++. The interface is easy to use and is very simple. Download it from here.
• FTP Synchronize. This unofficial plug-in integrates an FTP client onto Notepad++. If you are editing your static contents for your website, you can easily upload them from the editor itself. Download it from here.
• HTML Tag. As the name suggests, this plug-in takes care of HTML / XML tag matching. Download it from here.
• Multiple clipboard. This plug-in enables 10 text buffers for copying  / pasting text. This will be very handy along with its hotkey. Download it from here.
• SubVersion. With this plug-in, one can directly commit the files to SVN repository. I have started using this for transferring data to my projects hosted on Google code. Download it from here.
• Windows Manager. This plug-in adds a dock for managing the opened tabs. Download it from here.
• XML Tools. This plug-in is a set of useful tools for editing XML with Notepad++. Few of the tools included are XML Syntax checker, Pretty print, XPath evaluator, etc. Download it from here.

Check out the complete list here.

-- Varun