Select range of lines in Notepad++ using line numbers

In response to a question in this post we proposed the following method to select a range of lines in Notepad++ using the line numbers:

Press Ctrl + G, type the start line and hit Enter to go to the start line.
Then go to the menu, click on Edit and then Begin/End select.
Press again Ctrl + G, and type the end line number and hit Enter to go to it.
Back to the menu, click on Edit and then Begin/End select once more.
By now you will have your range of lines selected.

NotePad++: Remove multi-line (/**/) comments automatically

We are going to use NotePad++ replace functionality (CTRL+H) to remove all multi-line comments that are enclosed in a pair of /* and */. While in the source file you want to edit, open up the 'Replace' window either from the 'Search' menu or by using CTRL+H. Set 'Search Mode'…

21 April 2016

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NotePad++: Replace all content after delimiter on each line

We have a configuration file for Skype, that on each line it describes the translation for each element of Skype. The format on each line is as VARIABLE=VALUE. We decided to remove all values automatically, to do that we used NotePad++. We pressed Ctrl+H to open up the Replace dialog.…

30 August 2016

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Audacity – Automatically split an audio file into multiple files using at the quiet/silenced parts

This video demonstrates how we were able to automatically split a large audio file into multiple smaller files at the quiet parts of the audio using Audacity. https://youtu.be/-gwLQobwj98 The steps to follow after you open your audio file are: Select the part of the audio that you want to automatically…

21 September 2021

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13 thoughts on “Select range of lines in Notepad++ using line numbers”

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Zeshan 12 March 2018 at 5:56 pm

This is awesome, saved a lot of my time.
Thanks

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siavash85_ma 4 May 2018 at 12:07 pm

Hi
I am from iran. this post is very helpful

tanks a lot

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darrellmaclennan 5 May 2018 at 2:01 pm

Very helpful, thanks. I as looking for a way to copy one database out of a complete MySQL dump & it was thousands of lines, and by the time I has wasted 5 minutes scrolling through my copy lost focus – I knew Notepad++ had a way to do it.