Notepad++

Features

Some of its general features include:[5]
Tabbed document interface[6]
Drag-and-drop
Multiple Clipboard (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 over multiple documents
File comparison
Zooming
[edit]Programming languages



Running under Mac OS X using the Wine compatibility layer.
It also includes features for source code editing:[5]
Auto-completion
Bookmarks
Syntax highlighting and syntax folding
Brace and indent highlighting
Regular expression find and replace
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
Plugins for multiline regular expression search and replace
Notepad++ supports syntax highlighting and syntax folding for 52 programming, scripting, and markup languages.[5][7] 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 52 languages are natively supported by Notepad++ as of version 5.9.2: ActionScript, Ada, asp, Assembly, autoIt, bash, Batch, C, C++, C#, Caml, CMakeFile, Cobol, CSS, D, DIFF, Flash ActionScript, Fortran, Gui4CLI, Haskell, HTML, ini file, InnoSetup, Java, Javascript, JSP, KiXtart, LISP, Lua, Makefile, Matlab, NSIS, Objective-C, Pascal, Perl, php, PowerShell, Postscript, Properties file, Python, R and VHDL.
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.[5] 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.
[edit]Plugins

Notepad++ has support for macros and plugins.[8] Currently, there are 27 official plugins for Notepad++, 10 of which are included by default in the program.[9] 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.[10]
[edit]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.[5]
[edit]Banned countries and controversy

In 2008, the "Boycott Beijing 2008" banner was placed on Notepad++'s SourceForge.net homepage to point out the human rights problem in China. As a result, the entire SourceForge.net website was banned in China for about a month (June 26, 2008 ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ July 24, 2008).[11][12][13]
In January 2010, the US government forced open source project hosts to comply with US law and deny access from 5 countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria). As a response to this 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.[14][15]
[edit]See also

List of text editors
Comparison of text editors
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