Notepad++ 4.8

Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer&quot source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.


Notepad++ v4.8 fixed bugs and features added since v4.7.5:

  • Enhance Shortcut Mapper - all the commands (including plugins commands) can be assigned to a shortcut, even for the unmapped ones.
  • Upgrade Scintilla from v1.73 to v1.75
  • Add multi-line and vertical capacity for tab bar.
  • Add launch "as notepad" style feature (detection of asNotepad.xml, then launch notepad++ with -multiInst -nosession -notabbar options).
  • Add detection mouse wheel on the different view feature : User can scroll edit view when mouse on it, it"s not necessary to set edit view as current view to scroll it.
  • Add clicking middle mouse button click to set current view feature : make clicked edit view be focused, but the cursor position does not change.
  • Add mouse wheel horizontal scroll feature (vista only).
  • Add mouse browsing (forward/back for switching to next/previous document) feature.
  • Make orange indicator on the top of tab lighter when the view loss the focus.
  • Add new look and feel of Docking container.
  • Fix word-completion crash bug while the word to complete exceeds 256 characters.
  • Fix full screen mode bug : can not switch applications by using Alt+TAB in full screen mode.
  • Fix Preference crash bug.
  • Add the utf8->ansi / ansi->utf8 conversion feature.
  • Add Go to offset feature (in Go To Line dialog).
  • Fix folding bugs while deleting the begin/end folding keywords.
  • Fix position restored bug : Wrap position is restored correctly while switching back document.
  • Fix locking current directory behaviour : Restore Notepad++ directory as working directory with no open files.
  • Enhance the auto-completion feature : user can define the number of characters to trigger auto-completion popup window.
  • Change the horizontal scroll behaviour from dynamic one to static one.
  • Fix the bug that cannot save file(s) if application closed while minimized.

Download: Download Notepad++ 4.8

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