Notepad++

Notepad++ Overview

Notepad++ , based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

This project is mature. However, as you can see it's a one-man-project, there are still some bugs and missing features. If you have any question or suggestion about this project, please post them on the forums. As well, if you have any feature requests, you can always make the demand, but there's no guarantee that I'll implement it.

You're encouraged to translate Notepad++ (if it is not present in the Download Section) and/or to translate the Notepad++ official site into your native language.

I hope you enjoy Notepad++ as much as I enjoy coding it.


Here are the features of No ...

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Publisher Website:	Don HO [email protected]
Category:	Tools & Editors
License:	freeware ($0)
Operating Systems:	Windows 9x/2000/Xp
Filename:	npp.5.5.1.Installer.exe
Size:	2.42 MB
MD5 Checksum:	2e2cd39b7ad8375a1cf94729e5a12e87
Last Updated:	09 Oct 2009
Screenshot:	Notepad++ 5.5.1 Screenshot

Full Description: Notepad++ , based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

This project is mature. However, as you can see it's a one-man-project, there are still some bugs and missing features. If you have any question or suggestion about this project, please post them on the forums. As well, if you have any feature requests, you can always make the demand, but there's no guarantee that I'll implement it.

You're encouraged to translate Notepad++ (if it is not present in the Download Section) and/or to translate the Notepad++ official site into your native language.

I hope you enjoy Notepad++ as much as I enjoy coding it.


Here are the features of Notepad++ :
Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding

Supported languages :
C C++ Java C# XML HTML
PHP CSS makefile ASCII art (.nfo) doxygen ini file
batch file Javascript ASP VB/VBS SQL Objective-C
RC resource file Pascal Perl Python Lua TeX
TCL Assembler Ruby Lisp Scheme Properties
Diff Smalltalk Postscript VHDL Ada Caml
AutoIt KiXtart Matlab Verilog Haskell InnoSetup
CMake YAML
WYSIWYG

If you have a colour printer, print your source code (or whatever you want) in colour.
User Defined Syntax Highlighting

It allows user to define his own language : not only the syntax highlighting keywords, but also the syntax folding keywords, comment keywords and the operators. ( screenshot1, screenshot2, screenshot3, screenshot4 ).
Auto-completion

For most supported languages, user can make his/her own API list (or download the api files from dowload section). Once the api file is ready, type Ctrl+Space to launch this action (see screenshot). For more information about Auto-completion, please see Auto-completion HOWTO.
Multi-Document

You can edit several documents at the same time.
Multi-View

You have two views at same time. That means you can visualize (edit) 2 different documents at the same time (screenshot). You can visualize (edit) in the 2 views one document at 2 different positions as well. The modification of document in one view will carry out in another view (i.e. you modify the SAME document when you are in clone mode, see screenshot).
Regular Expression Search/Replace supported

You can search and replace one string in the document by using the regular expression.
Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported

You can open a document by drag & drop. You can also move your document from a position (or even a view) to another by drag & drop.
Dynamic position of Views

The user can set the position of the views dynamically (only in 2 views mode : the splitter can be set in horizontal or in vertical), see screenshot.
File Status Auto-detection

If you modify or delete a file which opened in Notepad++, you will be notified to update your document (reload the file or remove the file).
Zoom in and zoom out

That's another fantastic function of Scintilla component. Just see screenshot.
Multi-Language environment supported

The Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hebrew Windows environments are supported. See Notepad++ under the Chinese Windows , under the Arabic Windows and under the Hebrew Windows in action screenshot.
Bookmark

User can just click on the bookmark margin (located right side of line number margin) or type Ctrl+F2 to toggle a book mark. To reach the bookmark, type just F2 (Next bookmark) or Shift+F2 (Previous bookmark). To clear all bookmarks, click the Menu Search->Clear All bookmarks. See screenshot.
Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting

When the caret stay beside of one of those symbol { } [ ] ( ) , the symbol beside of caret and its symmetric opposite symbol will be highlighted, as well as the indent guideline (if any) in order to locate the block more easily. See screenshot1, screenshot2 .
Macro recording and playback


New in version 5.0:

1. Improve Notepad++ performance - on startup and on exit.
2. Add Calltip capacity.
3. Add HTML/XML tag match highlighting.
4. All the menu commands can be added in context menu, including plugins' commands, macros and user defined commands.
5. Add bookmarked lines operations : delete all marked lines, copy all marked lines into clipboard, cut all marked lines into clipboard, paste from clipboard to replace all marked lines content.
6. Add rename and delete current document features.
7. Fix crash bug : Open files with date pre-1970.
8. Fix clone mode bug : now the actions done in one view will be synchronized in the cloned view.
9. Add tooltips in document tab to display the full file name path.
10. Change hide lines behaviour : Hide lines now saved during switches.
11. Change file history list behaviour : Most recent closed file is on the top. Add number on list.
12. Caret width and blink rate are customizable.
13. Add asterisk in title bar if file is dirty.
14. The bookmarks' look & feel are improved.
15. Add "Select all" and "copy" context menu items in Find in files results window.
16. Fix goto line with command line bug.
17. Improve smart highlight / mark all / incremental search highlight all visibility
18. Tabbar's coulours is configurable via Stylers Configurator(Active tab Text, Inactive tab text, Inactive tab background, Active tab focused indicator and Active tab unfocused indicator).
19. Add the smart highlight file size limit - 1.5 MB in order to improve the performance.
20. Add exception handling (dumping filedata).
21. Fix go to line command line bug.
22. Enhance Find in files and Find in all opened files features' performance.
23. Fix dialog off screen problem under multi-monitor environment.
24. Add 2 plugin message for v5 : NPPM_GETFULLPATHFROMBUFFERID and NPPM_GETPOSFROMBUFFERID.

Changelog

We don't have yet a changelog for this software.

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How can you help?

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1. Post a link to this software on your website
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