Download Notepad++ 6.8.9

Version 6.8.9 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. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Notepad++ v6.8.9 bug fixes and enhancements:

• Fix Notepad++ hanging issue while user uses touchscreen to activate Notepad++ window.
• HTML auto-close tag enhancement: Prevent
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• Project enhancement: Allows user defined extension to associate workspace file.
• Make behavior of SHIFT+END and SHIFT+HOME more consistent when word wrapping is enabled.
• Add new API NPPM_SAVEFILE (for plugins) to save any file, not only the focused one.
• Add file extensions for FreePascal/Lazarus pascal, lex (as C).
• Update keywords for C, C++, JavaScript, Python and YAML.