One of my favorite Notepad++ plugins is NPP_EXEC and the compile_or_run script. Using this framework I created specialized scripts for python, Perl, c, c++, CMD, VBS, and PowerShell. It has become a handy way to run ad hoc scripts since I typically have a Notepad++ instance open. My latest creation was to create a variation of the Perl script to display a Markdown preview based on the “MD†file extension. In this case it runs a Perl Markdown script that sends the formatted HTML output to a new tab. Since I use Markdown so infrequently this is a quick and handy way to check my Markdown format.