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Notepad++ Live Deck

Notepad++ leaves most of its menu without a keyboard shortcut, Word Wrap and Show All Characters among them, so a keystroke plugin cannot reach those. Every key here hands Notepad++ the menu command itself: nothing is typed, nothing needs binding, and the dials read the editor back on the touch strip, from zoom level and caret line to tab and undo depth.

97commands
10categories
10dials
6bundled profiles

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What it does

Every key sends Notepad++ its own menu command by window message rather than a typed shortcut, so a key never lands in another window, and Notepad++ only has to be open and visible, not in front. 43 of the 97 commands have no default shortcut in Notepad++ at all, Word Wrap, Show All Characters, Duplicate Line and the encodings among them, and they work like the rest.
Ten dials that read Notepad++ back: Caret Shuttle, Selection, Zoom, Go To Line, Scroll, Tab, Language, Undo Scrub, Encoding and EOL, and Bookmarks. Zoom, scroll, caret and tab jumps are single absolute messages, so a spin never overshoots, and the touch strip shows the live reading under each dial with a position bar.
Language and Encoding and EOL preview as you turn and change nothing until you press. Undo Scrub turns back to undo and forward to redo, and its press saves. Bookmarks steps through the file's bookmarks and its press toggles one on the current line.
Covers File, Edit, Lines and Case, Search, View, Layout and Zoom, Format and Encoding, Language, Macro, and Tabs and Window: line moves and case changes, toggle comment, find in files, folding, distraction free, encodings and line endings, macro record and playback, and tab moves and views. Every key has its own drawn art.
Six bundled profiles with Easy Link built in. The 15-key Stream Deck, the 32-key Stream Deck XL and the Stream Deck + XL open on a hub of category keys filled out with direct command keys, one page per category and Home on every page, and the Stream Deck + XL adds six dials on every page. The Stream Deck + gets seven starter keys and four dials, and the Stream Deck Mini and the Stream Deck Neo two pages of starter keys.
Any key can play one of 30 bundled clips when pressed, silent by default, or a recording made with our free Sound Sampler.

What you need

Windows 10 or later, Stream Deck software 6.9 or newer, and Notepad++ 8.9.8 (tested on 8.9.8.1). Dials and the touch strip need a Stream Deck + or a Stream Deck + XL.

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Good to know

Built for Notepad++ 8.9.8 and tested on 8.9.8.1, on Windows 10 or later. Requires the Stream Deck app 6.9 or later. Profiles are bundled for six decks: the 15-key Stream Deck, the Stream Deck +, the Stream Deck + XL, the 32-key Stream Deck XL, the Stream Deck Mini and the Stream Deck Neo. The dials need a Stream Deck + or a Stream Deck + XL.
Notepad++ does not have to be in front. Keys and dials send their message to the Notepad++ window itself, so it only has to be running and visible. With Notepad++ closed, a key shows an alert and sends nothing, and the touch strip says Notepad++ is closed.
With the editor split into two views, the dials and the editor-level keys wait until you return to one view: with both views showing, the plugin cannot tell which one you mean, so it alerts rather than guess.
A Custom Hotkey typed into a key's property inspector overrides its command and is sent as that keystroke, so a key carrying one needs Notepad++ in front, like any shortcut.
Auto profile switching: hold the Easy Link key, the first key of every bundled profile, for about a second while Notepad++ is in front. From then on the deck switches to this plugin's profile whenever Notepad++ takes focus and hands your previous profile back when you leave.

True of every plugin we make

Every key carries the app's own shortcut for that command, and every key is remappable. Type your combination into the key's property inspector (its settings panel in the Stream Deck app) or click Capture and press it once. Where an app leaves a command unbound, the key still reaches it by the route that app exposes.
Every command has its own drawn key art, so the deck reads at a glance instead of listing shortcuts.

Read the full quick fixes, or see this plugin on the support hub.

Still stuck? Email [email protected] with the plugin name, your Stream Deck software version, and what you pressed versus what happened. A human answers.