Download Notepad++ 7.6.0

Version 7.6 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 to maintain one document in two different places. If you want to use the latest version, you have to download it yourself. Notepad++’s built-in updater only offers updates a week after their appearance in order to be able to fix any serious bugs. Since version 7.0 there is also a 64bit version of the program. The following improvements have been made in this release:

Notepad++ v7.6 new feature & bug fixes

• Add Built-in Plugins Admins. Users can install, update and remove plugins by some clicks via Plugins Admin.
• Change plugin loading method: Remove the legacy plugin loading way and apply only the new plugin loading method.
• Add new message NPPM_GETPLUGINHOMEPATH in Notepad++ API for plugin, so plugin can get its path easily.
• Fix a regression of performance issue while word wrap option is enable.
• Fix a performance issue for switching back to folded document.
• Fix crash issue due to Unix style path input in Open file dialog.
• Fix UTF-8 detection problem: 4 byte characters UTF-8 character can be detected now.
• Enhance/Fix encoding detection/problem.
• Fix auto-indent issue by typing Enter on empty line.
• Fix “Close all but this” behavior if multiple views are present and some files are dirty.
• Fix tool tip in document switcher showing the old name issue (after being renamed).
• Add autoit and lua autoCompletion.