Notepad++ Plugins

04Jun12

I’ve already emphasized about the coolness of Notepad++ (NPP) for VHDL editing. You can find those posts here & here.

This post is about must have Notepad++ Plugins. All plugins can be downloaded from sourceforge.net. You need to manually add the *.dll file into the plugin directory of Notepad++ installation folder.  You can alternatively go to Plugin Menu & open Plugin Manager which shows the list of available plugins & you can install directly.

Must Have NPP Plugins List

• NPP VHDL – supports templates for Entity, signal declaration, test bench & port instantiation.
• NPP Compare
• MultiClipboard
• Xbrackets lite – auto closing of brackets
• NPP Export

How to download NPP Plugins?

All plugins can be downloaded from sourceforge.net.

You need to manually add the *.dll file into the plugin directory of Notepad++ installation folder.  You can alternatively go to Plugin Menu & open Plugin Manager which shows the list of available plugins & you can install directly.

These are really powerful plugins once you start using them.

I’ll post about other interesting plugins once I find them. Watch this space for more. 

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