Notepad++ is a free and open source text editor for Windows. It is designed as a replacement for the built-in Notepad application.
Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for windows, and it is distributed as free software. It aims to be lightweight and robust, and supports syntax highlighting and code folding for over 50 programming, scripting, and markup languages. The user interface of notepad++ was translated into multiple languages, e.g. English, German, French, etc.
Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses the pure Win32 API and STL which ensures rapid execution speed and smaller program size.
-- Don Ho, author of Notepad++, from the project home page
Notepad++ has community support and forums for the development of plugins which may augment Notepad++ with additional features. Examples of this include Compare for taking differences of files, Converter for switching between numeric bases, and Customize Toolbar for personalization of the user tools.
- Unicode support
- Tabbed document interface
- Drag-and-drop
- Syntax highlighting and Syntax folding
- Auto-completion support for a subset of the API of some programming languages
- Macro recording and playback
- Multi-Language environment support
- Bookmark
License:
It is released under GPL License.
Resources:
- Notepad++ home page.
- Notepad++ Plugin Central
- Notepad++ article on Wikipedia
Latest LTS Version: v7.8.9 released on 2020-07-16
