The peculiar thing about WinSCP is that our new text editor will not be made automatically the default editor, if you open a file the previous editor will still be used. You can also browse to the location where the text editor resides. Select External editor: and paste the path. This where you will provide WinSCP with the path to the text editor you wish to use, hopefully you followed the instruction and copied the path. A new window will open, go to the left sidebar and click on Editors and the on the Add button. You will notice a button also named Preferences click on it. Star WinSCP and on the left you will find the sidebar, in the sidebar search for Preferences and click on it. Notepad++ in my Windows 7 system has the following path:Ĭ:Program Files (x86)Notepad++notepad++.exeĬopy the path, you will need it later. With the Properties window open search for the Target: box and copy the entire path. The easiest way to find the text editor path is to right click on the text editor shortcut and then on Properties. The good news is that changing the default text editor in WinSCP only takes a few minutes. When I have to edit files on a remote server I commonly use WinSCP, while a simple text editor is bundle with WinSCP I like to do more complex things and this is when the default text editor shows its limitations.

WinSCP is a Free SFTP and FTP client for Windows with a simple and efficient interface I cannot say the same for other clients.

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