Notepad++ 8.8.6

Notepad++ is a free source code editor (Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the Microsoft Windows environment. It also gives the extra functionality to define a user’s own language for the syntax folding and syntax highlighting.

You can print your source code in color. It allows a user to edit the different document in the same time and even to edit the same document synchronizely in 2 different views. Notepad++ supports full drag and drop.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

The supported programming languages: ASP, Ada, ASCII art, Assembly, AutoIt, 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, XML.

Features:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• WYSIWYG
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document
• Multi-View
• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
• Full Drag ‘n’ Drop supported
• Dynamic position of Views
• File Status Auto-detection
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Multi-Language environment supported
• Bookmark
• Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
• Macro recording and playback

Changes in Version 8.8.6:

• Add capacity of pasting multiline into Find/Replace fields.
• Improve UAC in app for seamless elevated operations.
• Fix Pin Tab operation being too long with many opened documents.
• Add 2 new full-readonly modes via command line argument (-fullReadOnly & -fullReadOnlySavingForbidden).
• Add apply/remove read-only for all documents commands.
• Column Editor enhancement: GUI input fields now support radix to match the output format.
• Add Window dialog “File Modified Time” sorting capacity.
• Fix NPPN_CMDLINEPLUGINMSG not working issue & define the pluginMessage usage protocol.
• Fix pasting from column mode to multi-selection issue due to different EOL.
• Add NPPM_GETNPPSETTINGSDIRPATH message to get Notepad++ settings directory path.
• Enhance SQL function list parser.
• Fix C# function list not working with comments.
• Add function list ability for CSS.
• Allow user to customize max selected chars to auto-fill “Find what” field.
• Restore undo/redo behaviour in Find/Replace fields after Copy/Paste or Ctrl-F.
• Fix text corruption issue caused by selection within multibyte characters.
• Fix DOCTYPE styling in xml and html.
• Fix double clicking on edit zone border creates a new tab issue.
• Update cURL in WinGUp (app updater) for fixing security issue CVE-2025-5399.

Changes in Version 8.8.5:

• Fix “Edit with Notepad++” context menu not being installed correctly regression.

Changes in Version 8.8.4:

• Fix -notabbar & asNotepad.xml stop hiding tabbar regression (from v8.7.9).
• Fix “Edit with Notepad++” not removed by uninstaller regression (from v8.8.3).
• Fix possible heap memory leak.
• Increase search input length from 2046 to 16383.
• Add warning tip for the max length on search input (Find/Replace).
• Fix JavaScript listed twice in Language & Indent settings of Preferences issue.
• Fix external lexers showing several time in Indent settings issue.
• Add button to insert variables in the run dialog.
• Enhance “Go to settings”: guide users to the related setting explicitly.
• Add a clear button for filter field in Shortcut Mapper.
•  Make NFO font overridable by adding font name in Lexer “nfo” of stylers.xml.

Homepage – https://notepad-plus-plus.org

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).

Size: 6.41 MB

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