{"id":690,"date":"2013-02-26T14:27:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T13:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edy.es\/dev\/?p=690"},"modified":"2013-02-26T14:27:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T13:27:26","slug":"using-notepad-with-unity-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edy.es\/dev\/2013\/02\/using-notepad-with-unity-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Notepad++ with Unity 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edy.es\/dev\/docs\/using-notepad-plus-plus-as-external-editor-in-unity-3d\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-685\" alt=\"Notepad++\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edy.es\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Notepad++-300x186.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edy.es\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Notepad++-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.edy.es\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Notepad++.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Unity 3D comes with a branded version of Monodevelop for code edition and debugging. While it&#8217;s an excellent tool for tracing and debugging code, I consider it a less-than-average code editor for daily usage.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Notepad++ is a simple but amazingly powerful code editor for Windows. Provides all the text editing functionality available in Monodevelop plus many other features and a Plugin Manager with access to a myriad of plugins (JSON reader, Zen Coding, Perforce actions, Python scripting&#8230; just for name a few).<\/p>\n<p>Using Notepad++ with Unity 3D requires a some advanced configuration in order to get a proper integration. \u00a0As I had to configure it recently, <a title=\"Using Notepad++ as external editor in Unity 3D\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edy.es\/dev\/docs\/using-notepad-plus-plus-as-external-editor-in-unity-3d\/\">I documented all the process and uploaded the resulting files<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Integration with Unity 3D including jump to line number directly from Unity error messages<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Keyword highlight<\/li>\n<li>Code auto-completion and hints for function parameters<\/li>\n<li>Color template inspired in the classic Borland IDE (yes, pure old school)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Being a keyboard ninja and having been used to the Borland IDE for a long time in the past, I had come to think that there wasn&#8217;t anything better in terms of agility and\u00a0fluidity for code edition. I was wrong, of course \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unity 3D comes with a branded version of Monodevelop for code edition and debugging. While it&#8217;s an excellent tool for tracing and debugging code, I consider it a less-than-average code editor for daily usage. On the other hand, Notepad++ is a simple but amazingly powerful code editor for Windows. 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