Notepad++

Binary files

For the binary (executable program) download, you have 2 choices: zip format and executable installer format. The installer format should suit for everyone since it gives all the possibilities (the choice of language, the options for components to install...). Whereas the zip format contains the minimum files to execute Notepad++.

For the zip format installation, if it's the first time you install Notepad++, just unzip the zip file to desired directory, then execute notepad++.exe. However, if you upgrade Notepad++ from the previous version, you have to follow the instructions:

1. Get Run Dialog by clicking start->run (Notepad++ should be closed).
2. Copy this text %APPDATA%\Notepad++ into the text field of Run Dialog.
3. Click ok. A folder named "Notepad++" will appear.
4. Delete 2 files config.xml and stylers.xml then unzip the zip file and launch Notepad++.

Download Notepad++ executable files

 

Source files

To build this package:

• For generating the executable file (notepad++.exe), you can use VC++ 7 or MinGW 3.0 / 2.X . A makefile is available, but not maintained anymore. I suggest you generate makefile via CMakeLists.txt come with this project by using cmake.
• For generating the dll files (SciLexer.dll) , you have to use VC++ 6 or MinGW 3.0 / 2.X

All the binaries will be built in the directory notepad++\PowerEditor\bin

Download Notepad++ source files

 

Plugins

From the v3.1, Notepad++ has the extension capacity - the plugin system. Please see Plugins HOWTO to learn how to install a plugin or/and how to develop a plugin.

 

Plugin	Info	Author
Function List	Function list offers a list of fuction (or section) according of the language of current document, in order to access to the function or section you need quickly. The supported languages are : C, C++, Resource File, Java, Assembler, MS INI File, HTML, Javascript, PHP, ASP, Pascal, Python, Perl, Objective C,  LUA, Fortran, NSIS, VHDL, SQL, VB and BATCH.	Jens Lorenz
Insertion	Plugin Demonstration : Insertion of current file name and date & time. Auto-close the html/xml tag	Don HO
XML Tools	This plugin is a small set of useful tools for editing XML with Notepad++. The plugin is libXML2-based. The plugin features are: - XML syntax Check - XML Schema (XSD) + DTD Validation - XML tag autoclose - Pretty print - Linarize XML - Current XML Path - Conversion XML <-> Text - Comment / Uncomment - XPath expression evaluation	Nicolas Crittin
TextFX	TextFx is one of the first plugins while the plugin system was available in Notepad++. You will be amazed by its huge number of features and its small size. Here is Text FX official site with detail Information.	Chris Severance
Explorer plugin	Explorer plugin is a file browser. You can open whatever you want from it in Notepad++, just double click!	Jens Lorenz
ConvertExt	ConvertExt is a plugin for Notepad++ 3.5 and above. This plugin allows Notepad++ to: - view a text file in different encodings (codepages); - convert a text file from one encoding to another; - add and work with your own [external] encoding tables; - replace a typed character by another user-defined character; - autocomplete a left bracket with a corresponding right bracket	Dovgan Vitaliy
Hex Editor	It's a damn good Hex Editor - works seamlessly with Notepad++	Jens Lorenz
Colour Picker	A colour picker which translates your selected colour in hexadecimal. You can download its source code	Matthew Edwards
Doc Updater	Document updater updates your opened documents in Notepad++ every 3 seconds.	Don HO
QuickText	A fantastic generic snippet manager, which supports all the languages supported by Notepad++.	Alph
SearchInFiles	A nice done Find in files plugin with which you have a lot of extra informations.	Jose Javier Sanjosé
NppExec	With this NppExec plugin you can execute your commands or saved scripts without leaving Notepad++. It makes you triple your productivity!	Dovgan Vitaliy
Light Explorer	A light explorer plugin not only in weight but also in speed.	Jose Javier Sanjosé
Spell-checker	Here is the spelchecker spellcheker spellchecker which can corect correct your typos in your langage (damn!) language. You need to instal install Aspell before using it.	Jens Lorenz
DBGP plugin	This is a php debugger (XDebug) which talks DBGP protocol. Use this plugin to transform your Notepad++ to a php IDE.	Damjan Zobo Cvetko
Compare Plugin	A very useful diff plugin to show the difference between 2 files (side by side).	Ty Landercasper
SecurePad	With this you can encrypt/decrypt whole documents or selected text with your own key. It is useful for storing sensitive information like logins and you don't want them lying around in a plaintext file.	Dominic Tobias
FTP_synchronize	A FTP client which is integrated in Notepad++ seamlessly. Open a php file from a server of distance, modify it, save it and try it on your browser directly just like you work locally.	Harry B.
HTMLTag	This plug-in provides two core functions to Notepad++: - HTML and XML tag matching, like the built-in brace matching (Ctrl+B / Shift+Ctrl+B) - HTML entity encoding/decoding (example: é to &eacute; and vice versa)	vor0nwe (Martijn Coppoolse)
NppExport	NppExport is a true WYSIWYG exporter. It allows you not only to save your source code as a html/rtf file, but also to copy your source code in the clipboard in RTF/HTML format, so you can paste it into your word processor (MS Word, Abiword, openoffice.org Writer) to get the same visual effect.	Harry B.
NativeLang	NativeLang allows you to translate the plugin menu/dialog in your native language.	Jens Lorenz
Simple script	Simple script plug-in allows you to make up your script from buid-in functions then execute the script in linear. It was originally designed to help format e-books for easier reading on a computer screen, but it's generic enough to use for a variety of different purposes.	Todd Hadley (Fidvo)
MultiClipboard	MultiClipboard plugin implements multiple (10) text buffers that is filled up via copying and/or cutting of text. To paste any text from the buffers, use Ctrl-V or middle mouse click (normal paste): to paste the most recently copied/cut text Ctrl-Shift-V or Shift-middle mouse click: to pop up a menu with the text buffer entries. Select the desired menu item to paste it	LoonyChewy
SpeechPlugin	No kidding, Notepad++ speakes now. Use SpeechPlugin, you can make Notepad++ dictate your text or source code. Of course, the speakers is necessary.	Jim Xochellis
WindowManager	If you open a lot of file every time you launch Notepad++, WindowManager may help you to swich a file to another. This screenshot will explains better.	Jens Lorenz
Gmod 10 Lua Syntax Highlighter	A Garry's Mod 10 lua syntax highlighter plugin. It's also a good demostration of syntax highlighter plugins for Notepad++	Kyle Fleming
Log plugin	Log plugin allows Notepad++ has one of MS Notepad basic features : Append the date/time at the end of file after a file is opened in Notepad++, if file begins with ".LOG".	Nicholas Heckman

 

Notepad Replacement

Here's a little Notepad++ launcher which allows you to replace Notepad completely by Notepad++.

Installation Instruction:

• Backup your original Notepad.exe (we never know...).
• Copy notepad.exe which comes with this package into 4 directories (in given order) :
  1. c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386
  2. c:\windows\system32\dllcache
  3. c:\windows\system32
  4. c:\windows
  When you replace notepad.exe in c:\windows\system32 and c:\windows, a "Windows File Protection" message box appears, click Cancel. Then another message box appears, click OK.
• Modify you registry (if you use installer to install your Notepad++, you don't need to do this step): Create key \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Notepad++, then add your Notepad++ full path as the default value of this key. In my case, it's C:\Program Files\Notepad++.

Now Notepad++ is your default Notepad.

I make a point of thanking Stépho for his contribution. The source code is available here.

 

Explorer context menu entry (right click)

One of the most demanded features is open from Explorer Context Menu Entry (right click). The context menu feature comes with the installer. If you use the zipped package, download Notepad++ Context Menu Component, unzip nppCM.bin.zip to your notepad++ directory, then run reg.bat. This component is modified from the MIT open source project WSciTEcm (Context Menu Extension for SciTE), made by Andre Burgaud to meet the need of Notepad++. The modified source code is available here.

For the x64 OS (xp and vista) users, you can use nppCM 64 bits thanks to Harry B.. Download nppCM 64 bits source if you want to build your binary.

 

Offline Help file (User Manual)

Notepad++ is quite easy for general usage. However if you want to use some more sophisticated features, you may need help file. 3 formats are available : Offline Help file in format chm, User manual in format pdf and User manual in format postscript .

I thank Adrien Sales for his contribution.

 

Logos

Some people asked me for Notepad++ logos to put on there sites. So here they are.

                 

 

           

 

 

Language files

Notepad++ (from v2.3) supports the multilanguage functionality by means of a translated xml file (from english.xml). Normally you don't need it if you install Notepad++ by its installer. You may need the language file if you install Notepad++ from zip format binary (or if your language is not supported by NSIS installer).

To make Notepad++ speak another language, you have to :

1. Download the language you need, rename it to nativeLang.xml.
2. Get Run Dialog by clicking start->run then type %APPDATA%\Notepad++ into the text field of Run Dialog.
3. Copy nativeLang.xml into the opened Directory
4. Launch Notepad++

Here are the available languages for Notepad++ for the moment:

Chinese	by Don HO	French	by Don HO
Spanish	by Alberto Martínez & Alzacon & Maira Belmonte & Larvitus	Hungarian	by György Bata
Russian	by Sergey Frolov & Piros aka Wonderer & Stjujsckij Nickolaj	Dutch	by Hans Luijten & Harm Hilvers & Klaas Nekeman
Chinese Simplified	by Li Chen & noword & DING2M & Wang Yong-Xian	Polish	by Marek Robak & Dzajek & Andrzej Michalski
German	by Dominik Geyer & Heinz Hemker & Meinrad Schwamborn	Italian	by Consonni Daniele (bitmap) & Alberto Doria & Luca Tarasi & Luca Leonardi
Danish	by Kenneth Mikkelsen & Holger Terkelsen & Jørgen Rasmussen	Czech	by Ondrej Muller & Tomáš Hrouda
Slovenian	by Jure Zemljic	Slovak	by Juraj Valašik & Vladimír Belička
Ukrainian	by Taras Budurovych	Turkish	by FIRAT KÜÇÜK & Yavuz Tona
Brazilien Portuguese	by Cristiano Ascari & Ricardo Crudo	Norwegian	by Geir Håkon Eikland
Swedish	by Kjell Rask & Timmy Almroth & Johan Fredin	Catalan	by Manel Guerra & el_libre
Arabic	by Motaz Isamil & Abdulelah AlWabel	Lithuanian	by Meskauskas Audrius
Galician	by Emilio Rodríguez & Fabrica	Finnish	by Jaakko Salonen & Lukeboxi
Greek	by Dionysis Zindros & Θόδωρος Στεφανίδης	Romanian	by Viorel RB & Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu
Extremaduran	by Purgossu	Korean	by Kim Taegon & Choi Ji-Hui
Hebrew	by Ran Sasson & Ofir Aviram	Portuguese	by Bruno Antunes & José Caetano Silva
Farsi	by Khosro Afroozeh	Samogitian	by Mindaugas Machernis
Bulgarian	by Milen Metev (Tragedy)	Indonesian	by Dwi Susanto
Albanian	by Fatmir Raka	Japanese	by Chris Campbell & Kentaro Suzuki
Croatian	by Sivi	Georgian	by Daniel
Basque	by Ander Martinez Sanchez	Aranese	by Javier Torres
Spanish (Argentina)	by Eduardo Leon	Belarusian	by Робин Кот
Serbian	by Branislav Lukic	Nynorsk	by Thomas Bernes
Thai	by Wiennat Mongkulmann	Malay	by Andi Rady
Occitan	by Yannig MARCHEGAY	Friulian	by A. Decorte

API files

Notepad++ supports the auto-completion (from the v2.0). Please see auto-completion HOWTO to learn more about it.

Here are some api files that you may need :

vb.api : by Wilco Bloom	java.api : by Blaise Le Goff
c.api : by Blaise Le Goff	javascript.api : by Blaise Le Goff
python.api : by Blaise Le Goff	flash.api : by Blaise Le Goff
cpp.api : by Adam Mullett	vhdl.api : by Andrey
smarty.api : by Helge de Vries	css api with colors : by Joseph Smith
docbook : by Adrien	lisp.api : by Wolfgang Wahlh�tter
dcl.api : by Wolfgang Wahlh�tter	WinBatch : by Nicolas Couthouis
KiXtart : by Nicolas Couthouis	ColdFusion : by Bernhard Steffen
ruby.api : by Arne Hormann	TeX.api : by isntanton
C#.api : by Jon Galloway	nsis.api : by Sebastian Armbrust
fortran.api : by media	pascal.api : by Nikola Jankovic

User Defined Language files

There are some language files that you may need. Here're the instructions to install them :

1. Download the user-defined language to your computer
2. Open the file with your favourite text editor (such as notepad++ or notepad)
3. Click start, run, type (or paste in) %APPDATA%\Notepad++ then click ok
4. Open userDefineLang.xml with a text editor
5. If this is the first userdefined language you are adding, copy/paste the entire first file (which you downloaded) into the userDefineLang.xml, replacing all that was there. If this is the second or more language you add, simply copy everything from the first file starting at <UserLang...> to </UserLang> and paste it at the end of the userDefineLang.xml right before </NotepadPlus>
6. Save the newly improved userDefineLang.xml

Please see User Language Define System HOWTO to have further information.

Cue Sheet : by György Bata	Smarty : by Helge de Vries
DCL : by Wolfgang Wahlh�tter	WinBatch : by Nicolas Couthouis
Autohotkey : by Matthias Goodwin	HLSL : by universal
ColdFusion : by Bernhard Steffen	UnrealScript : by DarthDevilous
PowerShell : by Jon Galloway	RenderMan Shading Language & RIB : by Stefan Gustavson
Cobol : by Alain Chappuis	Cobol (v2) : by Alain Chappuis
AWK : by Vitaliy Dovgan	Sap ABAP : by Franco Capetta
SAS : by Joakim	STATA : by Keith Kranker

Style files

styles.xml plays a role for the look and feel of your Notepad++. It manages the colours and fonts for each language supported by Notepad++. If you want to share your style file, mail it to me.

Ruby Blue (Screenshot) : by tomsolo
Vibrant Ink (Screenshot) : by Tyler Ritchie

Theme Package

Requirement: v2.4 or upper version

Installation:

1. Unzip all the files into a directory, say C:\foo\.
2. Open the toolbarIcon.xml which comes with this package with your favourite editor (Notepad++, of course ;) ). replace E:\Sources\notepad++\PowerEditor\bin\newIcons\ by C:\foo\ in the tag<Theme name = "Demo" pathPrefix = "E:\Sources\notepad++\PowerEditor\bin\newIcons\"> then save it.
3. Get Run Dialog by clicking start->run, type %APPDATA%\Notepad++ into the text field of Run Dialog, and then type ENTER. A folder named Notepad++ will appear. Copy the modified toolbarIcon.xml into opened folder.
4. Now it's the magic moment: Close the Notepad++ then re-launch it. You'll see the Crystal icon set instead of the default icons.

Don't forget to check the menu item "View->Tool Bar->Enlarge me", otherwise it won't take effect.

 

Notepad++ Theme Demo Package

Note: I didn't find out the icons standing for the items Wrap text, Invisible characters and show/hide indent guideline.
If you have the icons match them, please send them to me.

 

Crystal++ Theme Package

A complete set of high quality icons, made by Alican Toprak.

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