Notepad++ 8.8.2

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 8.8.2:

• Fix regression of folding state not being remembered through sessions.
• Fix “Go To Settings” links in Style Configurator regression (from v8.8).
• Fix small regression of tab background (hovered) highlighting issue after drag&drop.
• Fix an unresponsive (hang) issue due to hide lines.
• Fix installer security issue by Use the absolute path instead of an unspecified path (CVE-2025-49144).
• Installer component “WinGUp”: update cURL to 8.13.0 for fixing cURL’s security issue CVE-2025-0167.
• Update to scintilla 5.5.7 & Lexilla 5.4.5.
• Add feature to update Notepad++ on exit.
• Add `/relaunchNppAfterSilentInstall` command argument for installer.
• Add feature to set read-only attribute on file so user can toggle (set/remove) read-only attribute of a file.
• Add new plugin API: NPPM_GETTOOLBARICONSETMODE & NPPN_TOOLBARICONSETCHANGED to get toolbar icon set choice.
• Deprecate 3 APIs: Deprecate NPPM_GETOPENFILENAMES, NPPM_GETOPENFILENAMESPRIMARY & NPPM_GETOPENFILENAMESSECOND.
• Add new feature of using first line of untitled document for its tab name.
• Enhance NPPM_DARKMODESUBCLASSANDTHEME: Enable darkmode progress bar for plugins.
• Various dark mode enhancements.
• Fix right click on caption bar unhidding main menu.
• Fix rename tab error message when tab name is unchanged.
• Fix Python FunctionList absorbing next function issue if space after colon.
• Remove .log from errorlist lexer’s default extensions.
• Make raw string syntax highlighting work for Golang.
• Fix Notepad++ tray icon lost after Windows Taskbar crashing & being relaunched.
• Fix changing toolbar icon set not updating to matching panel icon set.
• Fix Windows dialog file list not react with keystroke (character match).
• Add “*” mark on modified file entries in “Windows” dropdown menu.

Included plugins:

• NppExport v0.4
• Converter v4.6
• Mime Tool v3.1

Changes in Version 8.8.1:

• Fix ShortcutMapper regression (from v8.7.6) of displaying wrong shortcut while editing.
• Fix Find in files progress bar visual regression (from v8.8).
• Fix search result cut off result content due to nul characters (‘\0’).
• Add Locale-based line sort feature.
• Enable selection history for undo & redo.
• Fix plugins removal failure issue (fixed in WinGUp).
• Fix tab settings for external lexers cannot be saved issue.
• Add ErrorList syntax highlighting.
• Fix disabled Paste command with no previous text-data in clipboard.
• Fix wrong directory opened for opening files issue.
• Improve Find dialog look & feel (more space).

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

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

Size: 6.33 MB

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