Download Notepad++ 6.2

Version 6.2 of Notepad++ has been released. This comprehensive text editor has various features that are especially useful for programmers, such as syntax highlighting for C, C++, Java, html, XML and php, among others. The program also offers the possibility to edit more than one document at the same time or even to maintain one document in two different places.

If you want to use the latest version, you will have to pick it up yourself. Notepad++’s built-in updater only offers updates 15 days after their appearance in order to be able to fix any serious bugs. New in version 6.2 is the presence of UDL2an improved version of the User Defined Language used for syntax highlighting.

The key features of UDL2 are:

• More keyword groups were added (more syntax highlighting can be defined):
  • 3 folding groups
  • 8 keyword groups
  • 2 comment groups
  • 1 number definitions
  • 2 operator groups
  • 8 delimiter sets
• Multipart keywords are supported (for example: “else if” can be defined as a single keyword)
• Whitespace is no longer mandatory as keyword separator: Operators, Delimiters and Folding keywords can be recognized with or without whitespace separators.
• Numbers recognition support is greatly improved (prefix, suffix, range and extra symbols supported).
• Operators and delimiters can be longer than one character.
• The same characters can be used as comments AND operators.
• Comments and delimiters support nesting (even within each other).
• Improvments to Comments include:
  • Comment folding
  • Comment continuation
  • Comment only start at the beginning of line
• In the case of several comment pairs defined, comment open symbols match only with comment close symbols of the same order. (for example: /* C comment */, /+ D comment +/, but not /* mixed comment +/)

Document Folder in Notepad++ 6.0. Click on the image for a larger version.