Download Notepad++ 7.9

Version 7.9 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 they appear, in order to be able to fix any serious bugs. The following improvements have been made in this release:

Notepad++ v7.9 Enhancements & bug fixes:

• Add the ability to open the target file of a Shortcut (*.lnk).
• Enhance side panels behavior: close a single panel instead of the entire stack.
• Fix Monitoring & document auto-update not scrolling to the end of the file with Word wrap enabled issue.
• Fix mouse cursor flicker while hovering URLs.
• Add back hovered blue underlined URLs.
• Enhance C++, Perl, Python parsers and add VHDL in Function List.
• Improve some ambiguous command naming in Shortcut Mapper.
• Add an option to prevent right click from canceling selection.
• Add ability to sort lines randomly.
• Fix “Close All BUT this” looses current document data issue.
• Allow user to start making a stream selection and then change to column block (by pressing Alt key).
• Add word wrap option to find results context menu.
• Add keyboard navigation ability to Column Editor.
• Add keyboard shortcut ability to Projects, Folder as Workspace and Function List for switching among these panels.
• Enable project panels toggle from menu.
• Enhance Folder as Workspace to restore latest selected item of last session on Notepad++ startup.
• Fix inaccurate line margin update with word wrap enabled.
• Fix Find previous/next commands not scroll vertically to show match result issue (with word wrap disabled).
• Fix column key sort with col block starting in col1 bug.
• Add confirmation preference for Replace All in All Opened Documents operation.
• Add Escape keypress in functionlist searchbox to clear its text.
• Add RTL capability to localized message boxes.
• Make (Find) dlgAlwaysVisible a true Preference setting.
• Fix sorting by column key using incorrect key values.
• Add search scope to Find window status bar output.
• Fix false hit result in Find in Finder.
• Prevent redundant line data copy in Finder.