Notepad++

Notepad++
Notepad++

Notepad++ Developer(s) Initial release Stable release Written in Don Ho November 24, 2003 (November18,2012) C++ [1]
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Operating system Microsoft Windows Size Available in Type License Website ~5.5 MB Multilingual (49) [3]

Source code editor GNU General Public License www.notepad-plus-plus.org [4]

Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for Windows. It aims to be a lightweight and robust editor for a variety of programming and scripting languages. One advantage of Notepad++ over the built-in Windows text editor, Notepad, is tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files. Notepad++ is distributed as free software. The project was hosted on SourceForge.net, from where it has been downloaded over 27 million times[5][6] and twice won the SourceForge Community Choice Award for Best Developer Tool.[7] The project is hosted on TuxFamily since June 2010. To display and edit text and programming language source code files, Notepad++ uses the Scintilla editor component.

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Features
General features include:[8] Tabbed document interface[9] 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:[8] 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 code folding for over 50 programming, scripting, and markup languages.[8][10] 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 , Go

Running under Mac OS X using the Wine compatibility layer.

Notepad++ 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.[8] 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.[11] Currently, there are 27 official plugins for Notepad++, 10 of which are included by default in the program.[12] 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.[13]

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.[8]

Controversy
In March 2008, the "Boycott Beijing 2008" banner was placed on Notepad++'s SourceForge.net homepage.[14] 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.[15][16][17] 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.[18][19]

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References
[1] Notepad++ 6.2.2 released (http:/ / notepad-plus-plus. org/ news/ notepad-6. 2. 2-release. html) (release notes on Notepad++ website) [2] http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Template%3Alatest_stable_software_release%2Fnotepad%2B%2B?action=edit& preload=Template:LSR/ syntax [3] http:/ / notepad-plus. sourceforge. net/ uk/ download. php#Language_files [4] http:/ / www. notepad-plus-plus. org/ [5] "SourceForge.net: Project Statistics for Notepad++" (http:/ / sourceforge. net/ project/ stats/ detail. php?group_id=95717& ugn=notepad-plus& type=prdownload& mode=alltime& package_id=0). SourceForge.net. . Retrieved 2011-04-18. [6] "Top Downloads - For all time, updated daily" (http:/ / sourceforge. net/ top/ topalltime. php?type=downloads). SourceForge. . Retrieved 2011-04-18. [7] "SourceForge's 4th Annual Community Choice Awards" (http:/ / sourceforge. net/ community/ cca09/ winners/ ). SourceForge. . Retrieved 2009-10-01. [8] Notepad++ Homepage - "Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding" (http:/ / notepad-plus. sourceforge. net/ uk/ about. php) [9] Fox, Geoff (July 7, 2008). "Notepad++ Does It Again Again" (http:/ / www. appscout. com/ 2008/ 07/ notepad_does_it_again_again. php). AppScout (Ziff Davis Media). . Retrieved 2009-10-01. [10] DeCarlo, Matthew (May 26, 2009). "Download of the Week: Notepad++" (http:/ / www. techspot. com/ news/ 34846-Download-of-the-Week-Notepad. html). TechSpot. . Retrieved 2009-10-01. [11] Smith, Tim (September 21, 2009). "Notepad++ 5.5" (http:/ / www. computeractive. co. uk/ computeractive/ downloads/ 2196837/ notepad). Computeractive. . Retrieved 2009-10-01. [12] Notepad++ Download Page (http:/ / notepad-plus. sourceforge. net/ uk/ download. php) [13] TextFX Official Homepage (http:/ / textfx. no-ip. com/ textfx/ ) [14] Notepad++ homepage (http:/ / web. archive. org/ 20080326203742/ http:/ / notepad-plus. sourceforge. net/ uk/ site. htm) at the Wayback Machine (archived March 26, 2008) [15] SourceForge Blocked In China (http:/ / www. moon-blog. com/ 2008/ 06/ sourceforge-blocked-in-china. html). Moonlight Blog. June 26, 2008. [16] SourceForge Unblocked in China (http:/ / www. moon-blog. com/ 2008/ 07/ sourceforge-unblocked-in-china. html). Moonlight Blog. July 24, 2008. [17] Gamedev.net (http:/ / www. gamedev. net/ community/ forums/ topic. asp?topic_id=500647) [18] notepad-plus-plus.org news - Notepad++ new site: notepad-plus-plus.org (http:/ / notepad-plus-plus. org/ news/ notepad-new-site-notepad-plus-plus. org. html) [19] notepad-plus-plus.org news - Notepad++ 5.7 release (outside the USA) (http:/ / notepad-plus-plus. org/ news/ notepad-5. 7-release-(outside-the-usa). html)

External links
Official website (http://www.notepad-plus-plus.org/) Notepad++ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/) on SourceForge.net Official Notepad++ Wiki (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/) Official Directory for Notepad++ plugins (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index. php?title=Plugin_Central) Notepad++ Linux Installer (http://code.google.com/p/npp-installer/)

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Article Sources and Contributors

Notepad++ Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=525454869 Contributors: 16@r, 3ICE, Abu-Dun, Adam1213, Ahunt, Akamsteeg, Amux, Anikingos, Arichnad, Astronouth7303, Atcony, BassoProfundo, Bazza 7, BlueAzure, Bluhd, Borgx, Brambleclawx, Bunnyhop11, Byassine, Calm, CanadianLinuxUser, CanisRufus, Cbsean, Cerrigno, Chanchal1987, Chappy84, Chealer, Chris Chittleborough, Cic, Coder Steve, Codeslicer, CommonsDelinker, Corvus cornix, CritterNYC, Curps, Cww, Dabean, Damian Yerrick, DanielPharos, DatRoot, Derekleungtszhei, Dicsee, DigiPen92, Discospinster, Djmckee1, Dobz116, Donho, Drygnfyre, Ebraminio, Elvarg, Ericleb01, Evice, FFMG, FQuist, Falcon8765, Fayenatic london, FedeX, Fissioninferno, Fran McCrory, Frap, Frecklefoot, Free Software Knight, Friedfish, Fritz Saalfeld, Gabrowski, GauravJShah, Gfoley4, Gilliam, Grandscribe, GregorB, Guillaumito, Gunny01, Guyjohnston, Gyrobo, Hamitr, Happysailor, Holek, Hu12, Hyad, Iamunknown, Igno2, IndigoAK200, Isilanes, Ixfd64, J Milburn, JBsupreme, JLaTondre, JaGa, Jac16888, Jasutton, Jmcw37, Jonathanischoice, Jthill, Karnesky, Khatru2, Kinneyboy90, Kissedsmiley, Kl4m-AWB, Klow, Knudvaneeden, Korg, Lee Carre, Lethe, Leuko, Libertyernie2, Liuzh, Luban, Malik Shabazz, Marek.zelinka, MartinZwirlein, Martinkb, Mattjball, Mendors, Mindmatrix, Minghong, Moock, Mortense, MrMan, MrOllie, Mxn, Neustradamus, Nigosh, Nihad Hamzic, Northgrove, O, Omegatron, Orderud, OsamaK, Padillah, Patrick87, PaulGregory, PdDemeter, Phoenix PNX, Pjoef, Porta123, PseudoSudo, Public Menace, PumpkinSky, R'n'B, Rbatts2000, Reedy, Reinis, Retired user 0001, Riggr Mortis, Rjwilmsi, Rlitwin, Rmccue, RockMFR, Ronyclau, ST47, Sabrown100, Safalra, SarekOfVulcan, Scarpy, Sequituriat, Skitwikipedia, Sligocki, Sopoforic, Spiritia, Sporgg, SudoGhost, Superm401, Tasc0, Tgxiii, Thuresson, Tickle me, Tom Jenkins, Torc2, Toytoy, TreasuryTag, Uncle G, Uncopy, Vasi, Vegaswikian, Vlad, Vladob54, Walter Grlitz, Warren, WebScientist, Where, White Shadows, Wickorama, Wikiloop, Wonkeythemonkey, Wozkol, Yed, Ykhwong, Yoasif, Zigger, Zundark, Zzuuzz, 162 anonymous edits

Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

Image:Notepad++ Logo.png Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Notepad++_Logo.png License: Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Contributors: Dan HoThe chameleon used in the Notepad++ Logo was originally created by Hayes Roberts (see on his website . Image:Notepad++ screenshot2.png Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Notepad++_screenshot2.png License: GNU General Public License Contributors: Aaa3-other, Akira.pl, BLISTHRV, Black Gold, Damian Yerrick, Dianapianist, Dobz116, Mike.lifeguard, Patrick87, Torsch, Vipersnake151, WikipediaMaster Image:Npp on mac.jpg Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Npp_on_mac.jpg License: GNU General Public License Contributors: Original uploader was Chappy84 at en.wikipedia

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