(based on 212 reviews)

Notepad++ 5.7

Rated 50/50 by pforbes at Jan 1, 2008

Excellent work. I use it since long ago, and IMO is the best in its kind. BTW if you want to print you must "Print Nowª and not "Print". I keep thinking that averybody wants to print just now and so fast as possible.

Rated 50/50 by Andy Dean at Jan 2, 2008

My favourite editing app. However this version has just been pulled down due to a serious bug. It will be replaced in a few hours by version 4.7.1

Rated 50/50 by preinterpost at Jan 2, 2008

Still great but starting to worry that it's on the way to get bloated. :-S

Rated 40/50 by melkor at Jan 8, 2008

When it comes to producing your own syntax file it's much more limited then Scite and it the highlighter requires whitespace at times (which is bad). Lot of cool features but I won't be replacing Scite just yet.

Rated 40/50 by etmare at Jan 8, 2008

Well, I like this proggy a long time. But since version 4 has little problem. If is associated with .txt files and I set view little standard icons (on the top), after about 3, 4 times icons disappear and I can see only text like in Win notepad.

Rated 30/50 by preinterpost at Jan 15, 2008

While I like it I have to put a damper on this. I cannot keep up with a DAILY release cycle. Any chance of clearly designating BETAS and RELEASES please?

Rated 40/50 by SELonBN at Jan 15, 2008

This has been my editor of choice for a year or so since switching from TextPad primarily because this is free. It continues to improve and has never given me any problems, but the recent rapid release cycle has me a bit concerned - 5 releases in the last 2 weeks. What's up? I have faith in the product and will continue using it.

Rated 40/50 by reddy.shyam at Jan 15, 2008

Its a good alternative but will stick to PsPad. Here is the change log for those interesed: Due to the installer problem, I redo this release and increase its version number. I take the chance to fix a bug : thanx to Garthex's patch, the invisible tab issue while closing tab is fixed.

Rated 40/50 by preinterpost at Feb 21, 2008

I use this for a while now. Excellent program. However - what's the point of posting an update here without any release notes.

Rated 50/50 by billweh at Feb 21, 2008

Great program - just keeps getting better. Here's the release notes from their forums: This version includes a lot bug fixed/new features/enhancement, just check the list below : Notepad++ v4.8 fixed bugs and added features (from v4.7.5) : 1. Enhance Shortcut Mapper - all the commands (including plugins commands) can be assigned to a shortcut, even for the unmapped ones. 2. Upgrade Scintilla from v1.73 to v1.75 3. Add multi-line and vertical capacity for tab bar. 4. Add launch "as notepad" style feature (detection of asNotepad.xml, then launch notepad++ with -multiInst -nosession -notabbar options). 5. Add detection mouse wheel on the different view feature : User can scroll edit view when mouse on it, it's not necessary to set edit view as current view to scroll it. 6. Add clicking middle mouse button click to set current view feature : make clicked edit view be focused, but the cursor position does not change. 7. Add mouse wheel horizontal scroll feature (vista only). 8. Add mouse browsing (forward/back for switching to next/previous document) feature. 9. Make orange indicator on the top of tab lighter when the view loss the focus. 10. Add new look and feel of Docking container. 11. Fix word-completion crash bug while the word to complete exceeds 256 characters. 12. Fix full screen mode bug : can not switch applications by using Alt+TAB in full screen mode. 13. Fix Preference crash bug. 14. Add the utf8->ansi / ansi->utf8 conversion feature. 15. Add Go to offset feature (in Go To Line dialog). 16. Fix folding bugs while deleting the begin/end folding keywords. 17. Fix position restored bug : Wrap position is restored correctly while switching back document. 18. Fix locking current directory behaviour : Restore Notepad++ directory as working directory with no open files. 19. Fix the multi-line tab height display problem while adding/removing the document. Included plugins : 1. TexFX v0.24a 2. NppExec v0.2 RC3.2 3. Spell

Rated 20/50 by Ian C. at Feb 22, 2008

This thing drives me nuts with all it's crazy font settings. The cursor moves over an opening or closing bracket, and the font changes, and it shifts positions and makes it look like there are more or less spaces, or it overlaps another character. I tried messing with the fonts settings a bunch and couldn't get it to stop doing this. One font is enough, less is more.

Rated 40/50 by anomoly at Feb 22, 2008

Had a gui issue with akelpad and saw this (again). Installed 475 and overwrote with this. After a minute reconfiguring highlighting I noticed that a url will lose focus in a document and one must hit backspace or enter in notepad++ in order to get the click functionality back (per line!?). On a doubleclick, FF opens the page and then notepadd++ gets reforgrounded immediately. quite strange. Even reloading a document has no effect. At least akelpad keeps the url click functionality working but with akelpad, the gui is a bigger problem. Almost a finished product. I'll use win32pad which is amazing for it's size as a viewer instead. Fix the url issues and I will try notepad++ again. Aspell integ. is nice. From all outward appearances this seems to be the best notepad replacement yet.

Rated 50/50 by Mystiqq at Feb 27, 2008

They still arent handling block commenting properly on some (all?) languages (using language specific syntax for block comments). Why?

Rated 50/50 by pforbes at Feb 27, 2008

Excellent as all previous versions. BTW doesn't print on 9x (tried on W98SE).

Rated 40/50 by philosopher_dog at Feb 27, 2008

Cool application. It is a bit unintuitive to tweak. Also, it would be nice if they had support for installing right over the default text editor. I know, I replaced it manually, but then when I update the thing starts giving me errors and I have to search for solutions. I'm sure it would be a simple thing to add replacement of the default text editor to the installation module and save many of us the pain of doing it manually.

Rated 50/50 by 1uk3 at Feb 27, 2008

I love Notepad++! I've been using it for a long time but have tried others. IMO, this is the best.

Rated 50/50 by Rafel at Feb 27, 2008

Why not notepad++ as .txt default editor? You don't need replace M$ notepad. In setting >> file associacions Then when you uninstall previous versions, if you don't install new version, M$ notepad is another one default text editor. And if you install new version, notepad++ will open your text files.

Rated 50/50 by raveren at Feb 29, 2008

As much as I love it, the new version installation deleted all of my settings as well as those of plugins and style configurations. Beware. EDIT: I'm sorry, I just had to delete its folder in Application Data to regain my settings.

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Mar 3, 2008

SpeechPlugin is nice and so is the ability to set foreground as well as background colors. Works great with aspell portably. Even has an encryption plugin.

Rated 50/50 by Ciolouse at Mar 10, 2008

Notepad++ v4.8.2 fixed bugs and added features (from v4.8.1) : 1. Fix unicode input problem for non-western language. 2. Add the capacity (behaviour) of keeping line highlighting even when Notepad++ loss its focus. 3. Fix missing fonts problem in font list of Stylers configurator. 4. Fix the hot key problem : make Alt+f+s work again. 5. Fix the hardware problem : make keyboard commands (such as "e-mail", "calculator", "sound", ...) works again.