Download Notepad++ 6.6.8

Version 6.6.8 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 a week after their appearance in order to be able to fix any serious bugs. In version 6.6, session snapshot has been added, an automatic backup function. New in version 6.6.8 is, among other things, that the settings can now also be stored centrally in Google Drive and various problems have been solved.

Notepad++ v6.6.8 new features and bug fixes:

• Settings on cloud – Google Drive.
• Fix Settings on cloud – OneDrive detection error.
• Make internal docking dialogs apply the selected themes background and foreground colours.
• Fix the bug that “backslash is escape char for SQL” setting is not saved correctly.
• Fix the bug that user cannot disable “backslash is SQL escape char” without restarting.
• Fix DocMap’s syntax highlighting doesn’t update while current doc apply a new syntax highlighting.
• Add 2 new plugins APIs: NPPM_GETEDITORDEFAULTBACKGROUNDCOLOR & NPPM_GETEDITORDEFAULTFOREGROUNDCOLOR
• Add new notification NPPN_SNAPSHOTDIRTYFILELOADED to notify plugins that a snapshot dirty file is loaded on startup.