Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer" ) source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports syntax highlighting and code completion for dozens of programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.
Version 4.8.1 features bug-fixes and new tools and improvements. Most significantly, this version of Notepad++ fixes a bug in GUP which could cause system crashes. Anyone running Notepad++ 4.8.0 is strongly urged to upgrade to this release.
New Features/Fixes in Notepad++ v4.8:
- Enhanced Shortcut Mapper - all the commands (including plugin commands) can be assigned to a shortcut, even the unmapped ones.
- Upgraded version of Scintilla from v1.73 to v1.75
- Added multi-line and vertical capacity for the tab bar.
- Added a launch "as notepad" style feature (detection of asNotepad.xml, then launch notepad++ with -multiInst -nosession -notabbar options).
- Added 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.
- Added a mouse wheel horizontal scroll feature (vista only).
- Added mouse browsing (forward/back for switching to next/previous document) feature.
- The orange indicator on the top of tab becomes lighter when the view loses focus.
- Added a new look and feel to the Docking container.
- Fixed word-completion crash bug while the word to complete exceeds 256 characters.
- Fixed full screen mode bug : can not switch applications by using Alt+TAB in full screen mode.
- Fixed Preference crash bug.
- Added utf8->ansi / ansi->utf8 conversion feature.
- Added Go to offset feature (in Go To Line dialog).
- Fixed folding bugs while deleting the begin/end folding keywords.
- Fixed position restored bug : Wrap position is restored correctly while switching between documents.
- Fixed locking current directory behaviour : Restore Notepad++ directory as working directory with no open files.
- Enhanced the auto-completion feature : user can define the number of characters to trigger auto-completion pop-up window.
- Change the horizontal scroll behaviour from dynamic one to static one.
- Fixed the bug that repressed the save file(s) prompt if the application closed while minimized.