Best Plugins

[Juan Fe]

What are the best plugins for general and c++ development?

I am new to notepad++ and programming

[PeterJones]

I don’t know of any plugins that do anything specific to improve the C++ experience.

QuickText or one of the other snippets programs plugins for doing snippets of code to speed up coding.

EditorConfig if you like having some file types indented with tabs and others with spaces (for example, using spaces in most source files, but using tabs in your makefile).

And NppExec is great for doing a “build-then-run” sequence, which I think would be quite useful for C++ (you can search the forum for my posts that include NppExec and gcc for an example of how to set up such a build system.

As a word of advice: this forum will work better for you if you ask specific, meaningful questions about how to use Notepad++ for a specific task (no, “coding c++” is not a specific enough task); and this isn’t the right place to ask general coding questions (“how do I do XXXX in C++?” is off topic in this forum). Your first two questions in the forum have been way too open ended (and you are giving off AI/bot-generated vibes, which doesn’t bode well for you, since moderators can ban accounts that even seem to be spewing AI nonsense.)

[Juan Fe]

@PeterJones said in Best Plugins:

I don’t know of any plugins that do anything specific to improve the C++ experience.

QuickText or one of the other snippets programs for doing snippets of code to speed up coding.

EditorConfig if you like having some file types indented with tabs and others with spaces (for example, using spaces in most source files, but using tabs in your makefile).

And NppExec is great for doing a “build-then-run” sequence, which I think would be quite useful for C++ (you can search the forum for my posts that include NppExec and gcc for an example of how to set up such a build system.

As a word of advice: this forum will work better for you if you ask specific, meaningful questions about how to use Notepad++ for a specific task (no, “coding c++” is not a specific enough task); and this isn’t the right place to ask general coding questions (“how do I do XXXX in C++?” is off topic in this forum). Your first two questions in the forum have been way too open ended (and you are giving off AI/bot-generated vibes, which doesn’t bode well for you, since moderators can ban accounts that even seem to be spewing AI nonsense.)

Thanks, im new in this forum