Download Notepad++ 7.4

Version 7.4 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 64-bit version of the program, although a 64-bit version is not yet available for all plug-ins.

Notepad++ v7.4 bug fixes and enhancements:

• Add document peek feature (while mouse hovering on tab).
• Add peek on document folder feature.
• Fix issue with clicking links in html/js/asp/php.
• Fix folding vertical line loses color after changing folding style via Preference dialog.
• Enhance folding feature (multi-line quotes) for python.
• Improve certificate verifying method.
• Fix issue of losing syntax highlighting while changing file extension (by “save as”).
• Enhance the UI of “Windows” dialog (Menu “Window->Windows…”) for sorting.
• Apply the new file custom encoding (Unicode or not) while opening an empty content file.
• Improve whitespace visibility while the visualization of whitespace is activated.
• Support RTL for header and footer printing.
• Add a warning message for launching folder as Workspace while both files and folders are dropped in Notepad++.
• Drag and dropping tabs is possible in multi-line tab mode.
• Fix issue of right clicking on multiline tabs.
• Add new moving tabs with mouse wheel feature (SHIFT + Mouse Wheel)
• Fix text on active tabs (multi-line mode) being clipped problem.
• Fix regression for saving session file (for session file extension, if set).
• Enhance saving workspace file by adding workspace file extension (if set).
• Fix change.log always opened issue.