Publisher's Description:
From Don HO
This project, 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 it is 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 iss no guarantee that I will implement it.
You are 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.
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
Features
Multi-Document
You can edit several documents at the same time.
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).
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).
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).
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.
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.
Macro recording and playback
You can save several macros and edit their keyboard shorcuts for the next use.
Changelog for this release:
# Add drag and drop capacity in Project Manager (only inside of Project Manager).
# Add \"Move Up\" (Ctrl+Up) and \"Move Down\" (Ctrl+Down) commands in Project Panel.
# Edit Zone border can be customizable via \"Editing\" tab of Preferences dialog.
# Fix an aesthetic problem in incremental search bar.
# Fix \"Save all\" GUI bug.
# Make plugins in %APPDATA%\\Notepad++\\plugins\\ override les plugins in Notepad++ installation directory. (Plugins loading from %APPDATA%\\Notepad++\\plugins\\ is enabled only if NPP_INSTALLED_DIR\\Notepad++\\allowAppDataPlugins.xml is present)
Editor's opinion :
This tool addresses the people who like to work fast with text documents; either programmers who need to edit their work docs, either regular users who just wish to open the text documents immediately, and have the text arranged properly.
From the user point of view, this program stands above the classic Notepad, due to its possibilities of text arrangements, the use of tabs, the simultaneous management of different documents opened, the line numbering system, the \"zoom in\" and \"zoom out\" features and the advanced \"find and replace\" function. The program is very simple to use, mainly because it comes with a set of icons that look familiar, with labels assigned to them, and also because of the menu, which is placed in the top and provides all the options for the user.
Moreover, for the programmers, Notepadd++ is a very good source editor, with syntax highlighting and color customization for the highlight option, encoding options, \"Run in\" feature, coding language selection. The line numbering is even more useful for professionals, as they need to correct the errors in their code.
Notepad++ does not automatically replace the Windows Notepad, but you can assign the applications to use this program for text editing instead of the classic Notepad.
