Notepad++ is definitely my favorite Notepad replacement because of the extensive features that it has built-in. A lot of applications are going to tabbed interfaces these days and Notepad++ realized the importance of this early on, which is actually why I started using it in the first place. Being able to have multiple documents open in the same window is a huge plus not to mention how much room it saves on your Taskbar.
Version 4 brings some new goodies to the table and now includes the Explorer plug-in pictured on the left-side in the screenshot above. It actually lets you navigate your hard drive so that you can easily open up the documents without fussing with a popup window. Besides for that there are a lot of bug fixes so the upgrade is highly recommended:
- Fix the crash issue.
- Add Docking feature for plugin dialogs.
- Fix the bug that current “open” and “save as” directory are unchanged with the shortcut Ctrl+Tab.
- Fix the bug that the new added languages in v3.9 can not be hidden from the language menu.
- Fix the volatile search direction bug.
- Fix the Tab display problem.
- Add Haskell, InnoSetup languages support.
- Add the option to open/save files in the last operation directory.
- Enhance Document switcher (MRU and switch crossing view abilities).
- Fix “Find Next” unicode bug for Find Replace Dialog.
- Support Unicode in displayed result of Find in files & Find in all opened files.
- Add Reload from disk feature.
- Fix bug : quite (close or restart Windows) without prompt to save.
- All the shortcuts of plugins commands are customizable via the shortcut mapper
If you’re a programmer then you’ll surely love Notepad++ with its syntax highlighting. It supports all kinds of languages including C++, Java, PHP, HTML, ASP, and much more. When you’re just trying to make a quick edit, whether it be to source code or any text document, there is nothing better than to have Notepad++ a click away!
I use that tool a lot and this new version looks really useful. Thanks for the tip!
yeah! the new version totally rocks! just yesterday i thought: wouldn’t it be nice if notepad had a explorer tree sort of feature to make things easier? actually, i kinda freaked out when i realized they had read my mind and released version 4.0. oooo. they’re everywhere.
Finally!!!
My favorite part is definitely InnoSetup support
Yep, they’re coming out with viruses that travel through your mouse into your body…then anytime you touch your mouse it downloads all of the information from your brain and sends it to the
hackersresearchers. Pretty cool huh?Sweet hands down this the best programmer’s/web developer’s pad on Win32.
Doest it load faster compared to the previous versions?
The last version also loaded pretty quickly so I would have to say that it is about the same. In my experience it is fully loading in less than 3 seconds so I would say that is fast.
I’m using *shareware* [emeditor.com] It loads momentally (~ 0.25 sec!!!), like Windows Notepad, but EmEditor Pro is sooooo advanced! I just love EmEditor, but I will give Notepad++ a try, because I see you guys love Notepad++ too
One of the things I always liked about Notepad (other than tabs, fast loading, highlighting for languages, line numbering and such) was that you could split tabs between two areas, so view and work on two things side by side. This is one feature I would really like to see in Firefox – I know you could just stick the tab in a new window and tile, but having tab groups that can then be split into two sides would be excellent.
Did you ever see that “Split” Firefox extension I wrote about a little while ago. It wasn’t the most extravagant thing but it did let you work on multiple sites side-by-side.