Notepad++

[Roach_]

Features

General features include:

• Tabbed document interface
• Drag-and-drop
• Multiple clipboards (plugin required)
• Split screen editing and synchronized scrolling
• Spell checker (requires Aspell) (Spell checker does not distinguish between text and code)
• Supports text encoding formats such as Unicode, for international writing systems
• Find and replace: with regular expressions (including multi-line); over multiple documents; and marking/summary of occurrences
• File comparison
• Zooming

Source code editing features include:

• Auto-completion
• Bookmarks
• Syntax highlighting and syntax folding
• Brace and indent highlighting
• Smart highlighting
• Regular expression find and replace (in perl compatible extent)
• Speech synthesis
• FTP Browser (plug-in included in standard installation)
• Macro recording and execution.
• Various tools such as line sorting, text encoding conversion, text folding
• File status auto-detection

Programming languages

Notepad++ supports syntax highlighting and syntax folding for over 50 programming, scripting, and markup languages. It attempts to automatically detect the language that a given file uses, using a modifiable list of file extension bindings. Users may also manually set the current language, overriding the extension's default language. The program also supports autocompletion for a subset of the API of some programming languages.
The following languages are natively supported by Notepad++ as of version 6.1.6:

• Ada, asp, Assembly, autoIt
• Batch
• C, C++, C#, Caml, Cmake, COBOL, CSS
• D, Diff
• Flash ActionScript, Fortran
• Gui4CLI
• Haskell, HTML
• InnoSetup
• Java, Javascript, JSP
• KiXtart
• LISP, Lua
• Makefile, Matlab, MS-DOS, INI file
• NSIS, Normal Text File
• Objective-C
• Pascal, Perl, PHP, Postscript, PowerShell, Properties file, Python
• R, Resource file, Ruby
• Shell, Scheme, Smalltalk, SQL
• TCL, TeX
• Visual Basic, VHDL, Verilog
• XML
• YAML

Users can also define their own language (for syntax highlighting) and its respective API (for autocompletion) by using the built-in User Language Define System. Users may configure the syntax highlighting's font styles per element, per language, and the resulting formatted script may be printed in full-color (WYSIWYG). Additionally, Notepad++ displays indent guidelines when source code is indented with tab characters, and highlights closing braces, brackets and tags.

Plugins

Notepad++ has support for macros and plugins. Currently, there are 27 official plugins for Notepad++, 10 of which are included by default in the program. The first plugin to be included in the program was "TextFX", which includes features such as W3C validation for HTML and CSS, text sorting, character case alteration and quote handling.

Development

This project, based on the Scintilla editor component, is written in C++ with only Win32 API calls using only the STL in order to increase performance and reduce program size. The aim of Notepad++ is to reduce overall power consumption by using efficient binaries that require less CPU power.

Banned countries and controversy

In March 2008, the "Boycott Beijing 2008" banner was placed on Notepad++'s SourceForge.net homepage. A few months later, most users in China were unable to reach the SourceForge.net website for about a month (June 26, 2008 – July 24, 2008). This led to widespread belief that China had banned SourceForge.net in retaliation for the Boycott banner.
In January 2010, the US government forced open source project hosts to comply with US law and deny access from five countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria). As a response to what the developer felt was a violation of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) philosophy, in June 2010, Notepad++ moved out of US territorial jurisdiction by releasing a version on TuxFamily, in France.

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[Chris Black]

Good informations for NotePad++ :]
Thank you Roach !

[IstuntmanI]

Foarte bun programul, il bag mereu cand refac windowsul printre primele. D