Download Notepad++ 5.0

The final release of version 5.0 of the open source text editor Notepad++ was released on Saturday. Notepad++ is an extensive word processor with various features that are particularly useful for programmers, such as syntax highlighting for C, C++, Java, HTML, XML and PHP, among others, and the ability to edit multiple documents at the same time, or even edit one document on two different pages. places to maintain. In version 5.0, performance has been improved, among other things. This can be seen during startup and especially during program shutdown. Furthermore there are call tip hints and ‘tags match highlight’ added, and it is now also possible to add items to the context menu to add. The full changelog for this release is as follows:

Main features added in version 5:

• The performance of Notepad++ v5 is improved – especially on exit.
• Function parameters call tip hint: in a modern IDE, it always comes together with auto-completion. In this version of Notepad++ calltip feature is implemented as extension of auto-completion. All the api files for auto-completion are now under xml format(with extension .xml).
• Tags match highlight: it will be adored by html/xml guys. The colors can be configured in Styler Configurator dialog. Check Preference dialog to disable this feature (through I don’t know why you want to do that).
• Enhancement or adding item in context menu: All the plugin commands can be added into context menu. Furthermore adding context menu items in contextMenu.xml is easier in this version. Note that for the sake of backward compatibility, id attribute will still work on the future release.

Fixed bugs and added features (from v4.9.2):

• Improve Notepad++ performance – on startup and on exit.
• Add Call tip capacity.
• Add HTML/XML tag match highlighting.
• 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.
• Add rename and delete current document features.
• 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 recently 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 colors are 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).
• Fix go to line command line bug.
• Enhance Find in files and Find in all opened files features’ performance.
• Fix dialog off screen problem under multi-monitor environment.
• Add 2 plugin message for v5:
  • NPPM_GETFULLPATHFROMBUFFERID
  • NPPM_GETPOSFROMBUFFERID.

Included plug-ins:

• TexFX v0.24a
• NppExec v0.2 RC3.2
• Spell Checker v1.3.1
• MIME Tools v1.4
• FTP_synchronize v0.9.6
• NppExport v0.2.7.3
• Compare plugin v1.5.1
• LightExplorer v1.5
• DocMonitor v2.1

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