Shift-TAB will outdent the block.Ĭommenting Code - You can use CTRL-K to comment a block of code (prepend with #) and Shift-CTRL-K to uncomment a block.īRUH Automation has a good video showing you how to set up SAMBA file sharing so that it’s easy to edit your configuration.yaml remotely. Quickly Indenting/Outdenting - you can select a block of text in N++ and hit TAB to indent the entire block. When you open a YAML document, you may need to choose “YAML” under the “Language” menu to let it know that you’re editing a YAML doc. Uncheck the “use default value” and choose “replace by space”. Here are the instructions to make your first Notepad++ plugin in less 10 minutes, by following 6 steps: Download and unzip the latest release of Notepad++ Plugin Template. Scroll down in the “Tab Settings” list to “yaml”. Go to Settings > Preferences and choose Tab Settings. N++ lets you make it so that when you hit TAB, it’ll insert the number of spaces you choose. But you probably don’t want to turn off the tab character globally.

Make N++ use spaces instead of tabs - tabs are going to break YAML parsing. Make N++ display whitespace - under View > Show Symbol, turn on “Show White Space and TAB” A few things that helped make it easier for me to edit YAML with Notepad++:

Notepad++ font editor plugin