References - JohnnyFoulds/firstrepo GitHub Wiki

This page serves as a list of references of things I will need to look at in the future such as reference articles I will need in the future, technologies I need to look at, and additional things that might be useful.

Notepad++ Spellcheck

I like editing my .md files in Notepad++ but noticed that some spelling and typing mistakes creeps in the whole time, so here are the instructions to enable some spell check in notepad++

  1. Downloaded v1.4.13 of DSpellCheck from https://github.com/Predelnik/DSpellCheck/releases
  2. Put the DSpellCheck.dll in the plugins folder of Notepad++: \Notepad++\plugins
  3. Download the dictionaries from https://github.com/ropensci/hunspell/tree/master/inst/dict
  4. Copy the dictionaries to where it is configured in the plugin settings: \Notepad++\plugins\Config\Hunspell

Notepad++ Markdown Viewer

The markdown-plus-plus project on GitHub provides a User Defined Language XML file for Markdown syntax highlighting in Notepad++.

  1. Download the Markdown language definition file.
  2. In Notepad++ menu, click Language and select Define your language... .
  3. In User Defined Language windows, click Import then open the xml file.
  4. Restart Notepad++.
  5. Open and test with a Markdown file e.g. [Home.md]

Notepad++ WSL

In the WSL use the following command to create a symbolic link to Notepad++ so that it can be executed from the command line:

sudo ln -s "/mnt/c/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe" /usr/sbin/notepad++

Notepad++ edit ofer SSH FTP

Files on a Linux server can be edited with Notepad++ over a SFTP with the NppFTP plugin.

Installation is very simple you just copy the NppFTP.dll file to the \Notepad++\plugins folder.

JSON Viewer

The following is a useful online JSON Viewer: http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/

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