Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the M$ Windows environment. Notepad++ is designed to be a freeware replacement for Notepad.

This project, based on Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component) and written in C++ with pure win32 api (i.e. without MFC, 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’re still some bugs and missing features.

If you have any question or suggestion about this project, please drop me a mail, I’ll love to hear from you. As well, if you have any feature request, you can always do the demand, but there’s no warranty that I’ll implement it.

Notepad++ Features:

· Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
· Supported languages : C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file (extension .nfo, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS source files, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python and Lua.
· WYSIWYG
· If you have a colour printer, print your source code (or whatever you want) in colour.
· Style Configurator
· For each style in every supported language, user can change the background/foreground colour, the font, font size and font style ( bold or Italic ) via the Style Configurator Dialog.
· User Define 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.
· 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. 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).
· Regular Expression Search supported
· You can search 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).
· 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.
· Multi-Language environment supported
· The Chinese, Japanese and Korean Windows environments are supported.
· 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 bloc more easily.

What’s New in This Release:

· Add Line change state vertical bar
· Drop (or open in dos command line) a directory in Notepad++ to open all files in the directory recursively
· Add "Find all in current file" feature
· (Most of) Find/replace dialog settings are remembered
· Add a hidden setting (dlgAlwaysVisible in configxml) to allow user set it manually to not hide the Find/Replace dialog if any result found
· Fix uncomment block erasing first character bug
· Enlarge some strings displayed zone for the translation
· Fix ESC key for column mode behaviour
· Fix read only file SaveAs bug
· Change behaviour : no popup dialog while closing an unsaved empty untitled document
· Changing "Search result" stylers via Styler Configurator takes visual effect on the fly now
· Fix for L_EXTERNAL in loadSession
· Variable $(CURRENT_WORD) is enlarged to 2039 charraters