Author: Admin 27 May 2009 Views: 219 Other

by : hardal 27 May 2009 Views: 219 Software

Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS 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. It supports full drag and drop.

The programming languages supported by Notepad++ are:
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.

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.

Here are the features of Notepad++ :
• 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 Notepad++ 5.4:
1. Add theme selector to switch styles.xml on the fly, change styles.xml on one click.
2. Add google chrome drag and derop tab feature : drag out tab to create a new instance, transfer documents among several instances by drag and drop.
3. Add Mark all extension : user can mark any occurrence with 5 different colours.
4. Add new feature : column selection allows to insertion a string by typing characters in sequence (w/o column mode editor).
5. Detect UTF16 encoding (BE and LE) w/o BOM.
6. Fix crash bug : Double click a file associated with an older version of Notepad++ while a newer version of Notepad++ instance is running.
7. lmprove main menu structure (more compact). Language Menu can be compacted as well (optional, in Preference dialog).
8. Fine numbers margin width is changed dynamically according to the needed space (but keeping at least 3 digits).
9. File history list (under the File menu) is limited to 100 characters per item. Longer file names are fitted to 100 characters by replacing path components with ellipses.
10. Update Scintilla from v1.75 to v1.77.
11. Indent guideline can be shown w/o whitespace or tab symbol.
12. Fixed two bugs when calculating the width of the TaskList (document list when pressing ctrl+tab or right-click + mouse wheel.
13. Add an (hidden) option to make the "Filters" and "Directory" fields follow the current opened document in "Find in files" dialog. The new parameters are located in config.xml and are called: "fifFilterFollowsDoc" and "fifFolderFollowsDoc" (set to "yes"/"no")
14. Add new command parameters : -c (column) -x et -y (startup position).
15. Remove change line marker which does not work correctly. Include ChangeMarkers plugin instead.
16. Fix bug "Switch to found results window" command now switches back to the current edit view if the focus is already on the found results.
17. Fix the search result inaccurate colorization bug.
18. Fix the Mark all in selection bug (while Find Replace Dialog loosing the focus).
19. Add 2 plugins messages : NPPN_FILEBEFORELOAD and NPPN_FILELOADFAILED.
20. Fix New document not be switched while double clicking in Find in files result panel.
21. Fix conversion min to Maj and Maj to min (or vice et versa) in column selection bug.
22. Fix bug when the find dialog was closed the translucaent shadow remained in Windows 7.
23. Fix crash bug of find in files feature.
24. Add "follow current doc" checkbox in Find in file dialog.
25. Add the ability of tag match feature to not highlight comment zone in html/xml.
26. Fix TCL language highlighting bug.

Included plugins (Unicode):
1. TextFX v0.26
2. NppExec v0.3 RC1
3. Spell Checker v1.3.2
4. MIME Tools v1.5
5. FTP_synchronize v0.9.6
6. NppExport v0.2.8
7. Doc Monitor v2.2
8. NppNetNote v0.1
9. ChangeMarkers 1.2.0

Included plugins (ANSI):
1. TextFX v0.25
2. NppExec v0.3 RC1
3. Spell Checker v1.3.1
4. MIME Tools v1.5
5. FTP_synchronize v0.9.6
6. NppExport v0.2.8
7. Light Explorer v1.5
8. Doc Monitor v2.2
9. NppNetNote v0.1
10. ChangeMarkers 1.2.0

Notes: One of new sweetest capacities in Notepad++ v5.4 is google chrome tab drag and drop feature: it allows user to drag out a tab to move/open the current document in a new instance. It's useful if you have 2 or more displays.Any document can be draged in/out among different instances.

While new release is enhanced for the rich developpers who can afford several monitors, the poor ones who have only one display with the pre-historic video card are not forgotten : The structure of menu is compacted in order to access to every single menu item in any resolution (even under 640 x 480).

Theme selector (Menu "Settings->Style Configurator...") is another sweet feature in this release. It allows users to switch among different themes on the fly and get the visual effect immediately. 10 themes are included in both ANSI/Unicode releases so you can play around directly. I did "Hello Kitty" theme and I'm quite satisfied with it - it's easy to fill with different pink colours to get this silly style. On the other hand, I tried to make a theme named "Bad Taste" but in vain. Obviously my taste is not so bad :) . So for those who have talent to make such theme, please send it to me (don.h@free.fr), I will include it in the future release if it is ugly enough. It'll be even better to have several ugly themes so that "Bad Taste" theme competition will take place.

"Mark all" extension is another handy feature. By making these commands accessible via the context menu, user is able to mark upto 5 different colours for any occurence. It's convinient when you work on a log file.

Homepage - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

28 May 2009 15:32 

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