Most of us uses default Notepad application in windows and its ok.We usually do not complain about this but if you have used Notepad++ i am sure that nobody is going to use that dafalut notepad in windows.Nodepad++ is just awesome.
It combines the speed and low resource usage of Notepad with an advanced functionality that includes syntax highlighting, plugins and multi-views and it also acts as text editor for almost each programming language.
Features of latest notepad++ 5.0 :
Improve Notepad++ performance - on startup and on exit.
Add Calltip capacity.
All the menu commands can be added in context menu, including plugins’ commands, macros and user defined commands.
Add bookmarked lines operations : delete all marked lines, copy all marked lines into clipboard, cut all marked lines into clipboard, paste from clipboard to replace all marked lines content.
Fix crash bug : Open files with date pre-1970.
Fix clone mode bug : now the actions done in one view will be synchronized in the cloned view.
Add tooltips in document tab to display the full file name path.
Change hide lines behaviour : Hide lines now saved during switches.
Change file history list behaviour : Most recent closed file is on the top. Add number on list.
Caret width and blink rate are customizable.
Add asterisk in title bar if file is dirty.
The bookmarks’ look & feel are improved.
Add “Select all” and “copy” context menu items in Find in files results window.
Fix goto line with command line bug.
Improve smart highlight / mark all / incremental search highlight all visibility
Tabbar’s coulours is configurable via Stylers Configurator(Active tab Text, Inactive tab text, Inactive tab background, Active tab focused indicator and Active tab unfocused indicator).
Add the smart highlight file size limit - 1.5 MB in order to improve the performance.
Add exception handling (dumping filedata)
