Download Notepad++ 5.1 Beta

Sunday saw the first beta release of version 5.1 of the open source text editor Notepad++. Notepad++ is an extensive word processor with various features that are especially useful for programmers, such as syntax highlighting for C, C++, Java, HTML, XML and PHP among others and the possibility to edit multiple documents at the same time, or even one document on two different pages. maintain places. In version 5.0, among other things, the startup and shutdown times have been reduced, 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 main improvement in version 5.1 is full support for Unicode. Below is the full changelog for this release:

Notepad++ v5.1 fixed bugs and added features (from v5.0.3):

• Make Notepad++ Unicode-compliant application(Unicode path supported).
• Fix crash issue due to the incoherent modification/creation date.
• Fix tag match highlighting mismatched bug.
• Make tag match highlighting on non html zone optional.
• Refine the Save/Open file directory settings (follow tab/last operation/user defined dir).
• Add “Doc go to new instance” and “Doc open in new instance” features.
• Add new pluin notification NPPN_DOCACTIVATED and NPPN_LANGCHANGED.
• Fix context menu incorrect setting crash bug.
• Fix a problem with Incremental search+UTF8 in win9x.
• Fix bug with CPP lexer keyword list.

Included plugins (ANSI):

• 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
• Light Explorer v1.5
• DocMonitor v2.1
• NppAutoIndent 1.2

Included plugins (Unicode):

• MIME Tools v1.4
• NppExport v0.2.7.3
• DocMonitor v2.1
• NppAutoIndent 1.2

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