Notepad++ 8.6 releases: free source code editor

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Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.

This project, based on Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component) is 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.

Features:

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding: Supported languages : C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file extension .nfo , screenshot1, screenshot2), doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS source files, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, TCL, Assembler, Ruby, Lisp, Scheme, Properties, Diff, Smalltalk, Postscript and VHDL.

  • WYSIWYG
  • User Defined Syntax Highlighting
  • Multi-Document Tabs
  • 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

Changelog v8.6

  1. Multi-edit is fully supported in Notepad++. (Fix #14266, #8203)
  2. Make multi-select background & caret colours customizable. (Fix #14302)
  3. Make session inaccessible files remembered (empty & read-only document as placeholder). (Fix #12079, #12744, #13696)
  4. Fix missing session invalid error for user session & enhance API NPPM_GETNBSESSIONFILES. (Fix #14228)
  5. Fix network shared files saving regression. (Fix #14300)
  6. Update Scintilla to v5.3.8 & Lexilla to v5.2.8. (Fix #13442, #14188, #14288)
  7. Fix docking panel crash due to messing up config.xml. (Fix bug report
  8. Fix invalid styler.xml making Notepad++ crash issue. (Fix #12101)
  9. Fix tab-closing crash by middle mouse button (unexpected mouse position). (Fix #14328)
  10. Fix 2 performance issues in Style Configurator. (Fix #14321)
  11. Add 3 line operation (delete, copy & cut) shortcuts. (Fix #14296)
  12. Display extra info in the status bar of Find/Replace dialog to avoid PEBKAC. (Fix #14307)
  13. Fix “Hide lines” command hiding unselected lines issue. (Fix #14166)
  14. Fix silent installer mode when Notepad++ is running issue. (Fix #10189, #10277, #22514, #14236, fix partially #8514)
  15. Fix Updater’s vulnerability (update cURL in WinGUp for fixing CVE-2023-38545). (Fix WinGUp issue #50)
  16. Fix incoherent behaviour of “Duplicate Current Line” menu command. (Fix #5298)
  17. Fix JSON5 not using JSON keywords. (Fix #14205)
  18. Fix empty message showing while cancelling session file saving dialog. (Fix #14235)

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