Hello all, Both myself and my collegue have an annoying problem when coding websites. We use filezilla to upload to the web server, but for example if I need to download a PHP file from it to edit it, when I open it in Notepad it its all bunched together. Like this: Now obviously we want it download with all the indents in place so we follow the coding and find things easily, and to do this we must open the notepad (php) file in Wordpad first, then hit CTRL+S to save it, then it opens as normal as you can see below which is what it should be. Can anyone help with this problem or have any suggestions? We just want to download files straight from the server open them and start editing without having to open wordpad and save first.. Thanks!
Don't think you can open such a file and have the indent immediately in Notepad. I set up Dreamweaver or Netbeans as standard to open such files. There is a shortcut key in those programs so you can have the indent immediately if it isn't place in the correct form already. Btw, imo it's easier to work in those programs as they have an intellicense that helps you while coding
Use Notepad++. You need to configure it to edit .php .html etc files. It's 5 sec's. As You use Filezilla, configure it too, to use Notepad++ as it's default editor, this way, you just edit, save, and confirm in Filezilla.
Notepad++ knows how to read those return and tab characters from both windows and Linux. It also provide syntax highlighting like Dreamweaver.
Ill give Notepad++ a try. Thank you! --- Double Post Merged, Apr 10, 2014, Original Post Date: Apr 10, 2014 --- Works perfectly thank you Kill and Nomy!
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