Download Notepad++ 7.8.7

Version 7.8.7 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 following improvements have been made in this release:

Notepad++ v7.8.7 bug fixes & enhancement:

• Fix new style save dialog by selecting right file filter and adding extension automatically.
• Add right-click context menu to bookmark margin.
• Add sub-menu bullets for cascaded Encoding and Language menus.
• Display file name as root of workspace instead of “Workspace”.
• Add file extension automatically for session files and workspace files while saving in new style dialog.
• Fix file reading failure (network problem) not detected issue.
• Improve Document Map precision.
• Fix clickable links break syntax highlighting issue.
• Fix current range detached from Document Map issue.
• Disallow backward regex searches due to sometimes surprising results (an non-UI option is available to enable it†
• Fix wrong project panel at start by opening a project via command line.
• Allow user to skip *.* when adding only excluding Filters for Find/Replace In Files.
• Fix Doc switcher icon state update issue for cloned documents.
• Assign CTRL-M as default shortcut for invoking mark dialog.
• Fix also a folding visual glitch in Find result.
• Add count of files searched to ‘Find result’ output.
• Fix Find/Replace history lost issue.
• Fix bug of Mark clearing in selection mode.
• Fix auto-completion suggest the same word while the word being modified.