Notepad++ Free Download v8.3.0 included Portable is a handy, very useful source code editor designed to support several programming languages. Notepad++ is designed to be a freeware replacement for Notepad.
This project is based on Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component) and written in C++ with pure win32 api (i.e. without MFC, that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program).
Features of Notepad++ Portable Free Download
- Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding:
Supported languages : C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file (extension .nfo, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS source files, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python and Lua. - WYSIWYG:
If you have a colour printer, print your source code (or whatever you want) in colour. - Style Configurator:
For each style in every supported language, user can change the background/foreground colour, the font, font size and font style ( bold or Italic ) via the Style Configurator Dialog. - User Define Syntax Highlighting:
It allows user to define his own language : not only the syntax highlighting keywords, but also the syntax folding keywords, comment keywords and the operators. - Multi-Document:
You can edit several documents at the same time. - Multi-View:
You have two views at same time. That means you can visualize (edit) 2 different documents at the same time. You can visualize (edit) in the 2 views one document at 2 different positions as well. The modification of document in one view will carry out in another view (i.e. you modify the SAME document when you are in clone mode). - Regular Expression Search supported:
You can search one string in the document by using the regular expression. - Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported:
You can open a document by drag & drop. You can also move your document from a position (or even a view) to another by drag & drop. - Dynamic position of Views:
The user can set the position of the views dynamically (only in 2 views mode : the splitter can be set in horizontal or in vertical). - File Status Auto-detection:
If you modify or delete a file which opened in Notepad++, you will be notified to update your document (reload the file or remove the file). - Zoom in and zoom out:
That’s another fantastic function of Scintilla component. - Multi-Language environment supported:
The Chinese, Japanese and Korean Windows environments are supported. - Bookmark:
User can just click on the bookmark margin (located right side of line number margin) or type Ctrl+F2 to toggle a book mark. To reach the bookmark, type just F2 (Next bookmark) or Shift+F2 (Previous bookmark). To clear all bookmarks, click the Menu Search->Clear All bookmarks. - Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting:
When the caret stay beside of one of those symbol { } [ ] ( ) , the symbol beside of caret and its symmetric opposite symbol will be highlighted, as well as the indent guideline (if any) in order to locate the bloc more easily.
