How to integrate Notepad++ and Microsoft Edge?

[Ronald Dupas]

When selecting View Source from the Microsoft Edge right-click menu I would like Notepad++ to open the page I am viewing. Can this be done? If so, how do I make that happen?

[PeterJones]

@Ronald-Dupas ,

Unfortunately, as far as I could find when searching the internet for “microsoft edge choose view source editor”, the developers at MS have decided that you should never need to view source in anything but the default Edge View Source tool. There is nothing Notepad++ can do to get around that limitation built into Edge.

[Lycan Thrope]

@Ronald-Dupas ,
No.
You would have to manually select the entire view source page, right click and copy and then paste that into a new document in Notepad++ and save it with a name to do anything else with it. Just did it. Using Edge even for this, gave me goosebumps, waiting for it to take over my desktop. Running a virus scan now. :)

[Thomas S.]

Well, an old thread, but I stumbled on the same question.

And there is a solution, found at “answers microsoft com”

The solution works also with EDGE, you only have to create this entry in the registry:

Windows key + R
Type regedit.exe and press enter
Navigate to (or create this path):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\View Source Editor

Create a sub key named “Editor Name”

Select “Editor Name”, and set its (default) value data to the path of the editor
Type the full path if you’re using a 3rd party editor like Notepad++

Exit the Registry Editor

[mkupper]

@Thomas-S said in How to integrate Notepad++ and Microsoft Edge?:

The solution works also with EDGE, you only have to create this entry in the registry:

This either does not work on Windows 11, no longer works, or maybe I need to reboot. As the registry path was for IE I also did the same for Edge.

Attempts to view the source of a web page in Edge still create a new Edge tab with the URL set to something like view-source:https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/23872/how-to-integrate-notepad-and-microsoft-edge/4

I added these, first as a test to see of plain old Notepad.exe was launched. I had also tried the full path to Notepad++. No joy.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Edge\View Source Editor\Editor Name]
@="Notepad.exe"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\View Source Editor\Editor Name]
@="Notepad.exe"

Google for site:answers.microsoft.com "View Source Editor" finds most of the answers are for Windows 7. This forum post on answers.microsoft.com is more generic as far as the Windows version goes and is presumably is the source of the information in @Thomas-S’ post.