Notepad++ download for pc is an open-source, highly respected source code editor which also works well as a replacement for Windows Notepad. By default it supports over fifty programming languages listed at the end of its description; and provides access to many functions useful when working both with code and regular text files. Notepad++’s implementation utilizes Scintilla technology which has long been utilized as part of text editors built using C++ with support for Win32 API/STL libraries allowing it to load text files quickly while taking up minimal disk space on disk.
Notepad++ has two primary capabilities. These capabilities include:
- The ability to work simultaneously on several files using separate tabs; additionally, multiple instances of the program can run concurrently;
- Two views/panels of the editing area are provided and work in full screen mode; you are free to move document tabs between these views as you wish, including copying tabs to specific panels or program instances as desired.
- Code autocompletion, syntax highlighting, multi-level folding of code fragments and line numbering are features which can be configured according to individual user needs and preferences.
- The ability to easily create and edit tabs as well as mark and color-style selected text/code fragments with special markings/highlighting options;
- Zoom in or out, synchronizing scrolling of both document view panels
- Project panels, document map and list of functions
- Showing “invisible characters”, such as whitespace, newlines, level guides and line wrap symbols
- Line Wrap enables control over text direction (left to right and vice versa), offering more precise text direction control than ever.
- Basic editing functions and functions include column selection, column editor, indentation control, block comments, line operations (including repeating, splitting, joining moving sorting rows inserting blank lines etc), whitespace operations line break conversion pasteing HTML RTF content cutting copy pasting or pasting binary content copying its path name path parent directory name into system clipboard
- Advanced text search and replace features include incremental search, use of wildcards and regular expressions, searching in files, looking for characters in specific ranges (ASCII characters only or user defined range), jumping directly to selected lines for searching purposes, color highlight search capabilities as bookmarking features; plus much more!
- Character Encoding Support-supports ANSI, UTF8 without BOM and UCS-2 Big/Little Endian formats as well as selection from given character sets within these formats for text conversion to any of them; text file can also be exported directly for viewing/converter use
- Ability to record and play back macros (including multiple playback) mes, Running files containing code/text using specific programs – for instance a document with HTML code can quickly open in Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Safari browsers for fast viewing – etc
- Support for plug-ins that expand the capabilities of the program; Plug-in Manager contains an initial selection and allows users to download additional extensions; You may even decide to create and add your own plugin(s).
- Printing documents using WYSIWYG technology.
- Programming languages supported by default (providing syntax support and reading/writing files with appropriate formats for that language) include Ada, ASP, Assembly, AutoIt, Batch, C, C++,
- Ability to customize syntax-highlighting rules for any programming language.
Notepad++ free download GUI is highly customisable; choose one of its many visual styles before customizing its appearance further to match your needs. New users should quickly learn the fundamentals while instructions for more advanced features can be found at its project website (with English information available).
System Information
- Producent:Â N++
- License : Freeware (free)
- Operating System : Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10