Notepad++ may be a text and ASCII text file editor to be used with Microsoft Windows. It supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files during a single window. The project's name comes from the C increment operator.
Notepad++ is distributed as free software. initially the project was hosted on SourceForge.net, from where it's been downloaded over 28 million times, and twice won the SourceForge Community Choice Award for Best Developer Tool. The project was hosted on TuxFamily from 2010 to 2015; since 2015 Notepad++ has been hosted on GitHub. Notepad++ uses the Scintilla editor component.
History
Notepad++ was developed by Don Ho in September 2003. The developer used JEXT (a Java-based text editor) at his company but, dissatisfied with its poor performance, he began to develop a text editor written in C++ with Scintilla. He developed it in his spare time since the thought was rejected by his company. Notepad++ was built as a Microsoft Windows application; the author considered, but rejected, the thought of using wxWidgets to port it to the Mac OS X and Unix platforms.
Notepad++ was first released on SourceForge on 25 November 2003, as a Windows-only application. it's supported the Scintilla editor component, and is written in C++ with only Win32 API calls using only the STL to extend performance and reduce program size.
In January 2010 the United States government obliged US-based open source project hosts to deny access from Cuba, Iran, North Korea , Sudan, and Syria to suits U.S. law. As a response to what the developer felt was a violation of the free and open-source software (FOSS) philosophy, in June 2010 Notepad++ removed folks territorial jurisdiction by releasing a version on TuxFamily, in France. Some community services of Notepad++ (Such because the forums and bug tracker) remained on Sourceforge until 2015 when Notepad++ left Sourceforge completely.
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In 2011 Lifehacker described Notepad++ as "The Best Programming Text Editor for Windows", stating that "if you favor an easy , lightweight, and extensible programming plain-text editor, our first choice is that the free, open-source Notepad++". Lifehacker criticized its interface , stating that "It is, in fact, fairly ugly. Luckily you'll do tons to customize its looks, and what it lacks in polish, it makes up for in functionality".
In 2014 Lifehacker readers voted Notepad++ because the "Most Popular Text Editor", with 40% of the 16,294 respondents specifying it as their most-loved editor. The Lifehacker team summarized the program as being "fast, flexible, feature-packed, and completely free".
In 2015 Stack Overflow conducted a worldwide Developer Survey, and Notepad++ was voted because the most used text editor worldwide with 34.7% of the 26,086 respondents claiming to use it daily. Stack Overflow noted that "The more things change, the more likely it's those things are written in JavaScript with NotePad++ on a Windows machine". The 2016 survey had Notepad++ at 35.6%.
In 2015, in response to the staff hijacking of projects hosted on SourceForge, Notepad++ left SourceForge completely with the forums being moved to NodeBB and therefore the bug tracker to GitHub.
Features
- Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
- WYSIWYG
- User Defined Syntax Highlighting
- Auto-completion
- Multi-Document
- Multi-View
- 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
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