windows - How to untoggle Right-to-Left text in Notepad?

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2014-07
  • RLH

    I hate to have to ask this but... I've seemed to accidentally hit a couple hot-keys and my Notepad is now showing text from Right-to-Left. What was a that hot-key combo and what can I do to reverse it back to Left-to-Right?

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  • Greg

    Right click anywhere in notepad and uncheck right-to-left reading

  • Marko

    Hotkey combo:

    • to write text from Right to Left, try Ctrl + Right Shift

    • to write text from Left to Right, try Ctrl + Left Shift

    Or simply open Notepad again ;)

  • Indrek

    Try the following shortcuts:

    Ctrl+Alt+R

    Ctrl+Alt+L


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  • Nick

    I could do this easily with TextPad, then I got irritated with Textpad once I'd played with Notepad++.

    Now that I've removed Textpad:

    • I want Notepad++ to take over the right-click > Edit option in Explorer, and
    • I want Notepad++ to come up when I type notepad in the command prompt.

    I know that Notepad++ has a shell extension that allows one to do right-click > Edit in Notepad++. But my old right-click > Edit link remains, and I keep finding myself clicking on it, only to be rewarded with an error.


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  • Gausie

    Notepad++ has an interface exactly for this. Go to

    Settings > Preferences > File > Association

    From there you can choose what extensions you would like to associate with Notepad++, sorted into categories (with the option of adding custom ones)

  • ChrisF

    If you don't want to change the system files simply right click on a file and select "Open With > Choose Default Program".

    Now just select Notepad++ and you're good to go.

    The only drawback with this approach is that you need to do it for all file types you want to open with the new program (*.txt, *.log, *.xml or whatever), so if you have a lot of different text based files it's not the option for you.

  • Don Salva

    Replace Windows Notepad with more advanced editors

  • Loïc Wolff

    Notepad++ has a shell extension that allows you to do Right Click > Edit in Notepad++

  • barlop

    i'm going to post michel's comment as an answer, because it looks like it should work. And it looks better than all the others. And i'll add another way myself, with the path.

    The OP asked about the cmd prompt too. link from howtogeek about replacing the executable

    Another way is open a cmd prompt, type PATH=c:\dirwithbats;%PATH% or for permanence, edit the path variable in the dialog box. Put a bat file c:\dirwithbats\notepad.bat that launches your other editor.

  • Boorner

    I found this tool to automatically replace Notepad with Notepad++:

    Tool by FloatOverflow