Notepad++ 8.8.8

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 8.8.8:

• Add the app MSI (x64) for enterprise IT deployment.
• Security enhancement: Prevent the app updater from being hijacked.
• Fix multi-selection crash (regression) when smart highlighting is enabled.
• Add tab label length limitation option to have reasonable tab width.
• Improve the performance of saving session on exit.
• Fix Distraction free mode disabling tab bar hiding regression.
• Add text scale support.
• Fix switching among some encoding not working issue.
• Fix Notepad++ not handle system default code page UTF-8 well.
• Improve Rust handling: keywords and autoCompletion.

Changes in Version 8.8.7:

• Sign Notepad++ binaries with GlobalSign certificat to fix false-positive alerts.
• Fix Monitoring in one view affects selections and position in second view.
• Fix Shortcut Mapper memory leak issue.
• Enhance Perl FunctionList for class.
• Fix pressing Alt or Tab causes controls redrawing problem in UDL dialog.

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.

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

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

Size: 6.47 MB

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