I’ve been ranting on and on about how I love Notepad++, and recently I’ve started looking ore and more at, let me share a cool feature I found which lets you create keyboard shortcuts for pasting anything really. This helps my productivity to no end, especially when writing html or css code.

I use comments a lot when first creating a design so I know where I am later on too. Creating a comment in html means you have to write the following code <!-- Comment Here -->. This can get a bit tedious, especially at the beginning, when I add a comment below all my div containers, and also at their closing tag. For this reason I created a macro to paste comment tags quickly.

In Notepad++, just go to the macro menu and choose start recording. Tye the desired text anywhere on screen, in my example I wrote <!-- -->, and then go to the macro menu again, and click stop recording. You will need to go to the menu again and click “save currently recorded macro”. You can now set the key combination for it, I use a combination of the control and shift key, plus a letter usually.

If you hate confirming that yes, you do want to delete the file in question (hence the reason you pushed delete) I just found an application via Mysticgeek’s Realm that could save you from a lot of OK pushing.

PTFB (Push the freakin’ button) basically sits in the background waiting for dialogs to appear and presses the pre-designated button for you. The great thing is that you can make it dialog specific, so you can enable it only for file deletion notifications, or only for overwriting and so on.

You can set up the delay time as well, although I don’t really see the point, maybe unless it’s part of a macro. By the way, there is a pro version which can do a lot more, but for basic usage this is perfect, especially if you are batch deleting some files one by one, it will save you a lot of time (time saving = productivity).