Notepad++

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Notepad++

Screenshot of Notepad++
Developed by	Donho
Initial release	November 24, 2003 (2003-11-24)
Stable release	4.9.2 (May 11, 2008 (2008-05-11); 34 days ago) _[+/−]
Written in	C++
OS	Windows
Available in	Multilingual
Genre	Source code editor
License	GNU General Public License
Website	notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

Notepad++ is a free source code editor for Windows. The project is hosted on SourceForge.net, from where it has been downloaded over eight million times.^[1]

This project, based on the Scintilla editor component, is written in C++ with pure Win32 API calls and uses STL. The aim of Notepad++ is to offer a slim and efficient binary with a totally customizable GUI.

1 Programming languages supported
2 Features
3 Compatibility
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Programming languages supported

Notepad++ supports syntax highlighting for ASP, Ada, ASCII art, Assembly, AutoIt(Limited support for AutoHotKey), BAT, C, C#, C++, Caml, CSS, doxygen, FORTRAN, HTML, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, KiXtart, Lisp, Lua, makefile, Matlab, Objective-C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Unix Shell Script, Smalltalk, SQL, Tcl, TeX, Verilog, VHDL, VB/VBScript, and XML.

Furthermore, users can define their own language by using the built-in User Language Define System, which makes Notepad++ extendable, to have syntax highlighting and syntax folding.

[edit] Features

Some of its features include:

Auto-completion (language and file)
Bookmarks
Syntax highlighting (and brace and indent highlighting)
Regular expression find and replace
Split screen editing
Zooming
Spell checker (built in but requires Aspell)
Hex editor (plug-in included in standard installation)(Currently not compatible with NP++ v.4.8.2)
Tabbed document interface
FTP Browser (plug-in included in standard installation)
Support for various file formats including unicode.

It has support for macros and plugins. A user-written plug-in called TextFX, which provides many text transformation options, is included by default.

Although Scintilla does not support multiline regular expression search and replace, Notepad++ does contain support for plug-ins which help mitigate this fact.

[edit] Compatibility

Notepad++ is available only for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is maintained by a single developer who does not have the time or resources to port the software to other operating systems. However, users can still get Notepad++ to work on other platforms like Linux, using software such as Wine.