Aliases in Windows command prompt

Question

I have added notepad++.exe to my Path in Environment variables.

Now in command prompt, notepad++.exe filename.txt opens the filename

Answer 1

Using doskey is the right way to do this, but it resets when the Command Prompt window is closed. You need to add that line to something like .bashrc equivalent. So I did the following:

1. Add "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++" to system path variable
2. Make a copy of notepad++.exe (in the same folder, of course) and rename it to np.exe

Works just fine!