Software update: Notepad++ 5.4

Notepad++ has been updated to version 5.4. Notepad++ is a comprehensive text editor with several features that are useful to programmers, such as syntax highlighting for C, C++, java, html, xml and php, among others, and the ability to edit multiple documents at the same time or even place one document in two different places. to maintain. New in version 5.4 is, among other things, the possibility to open a file multiple times by moving its tab with drag&drop, as it also works in Google Chrome. In addition, up to five different search criteria can now be highlighted in a file and the user interface can be given a different ‘theme’. Below is the full changelog for this release:

Notepad++ 5.4 new features and fixed bugs (from 5.3.1):

• Add theme selector to switch styles.xml on the fly, change styles.xml on one click.
• Add google chrome drag and derop tab feature: drag out tab to create a new instance, transfer documents among several instances by drag and drop.
• Add Mark all extension: user can mark any occurrence with 5 different colours.
• Add new feature: column selection allows to insertion a string by typing characters in sequence (w/o column mode editor).
• Detect UTF16 encoding (BE and LE) w/o BOM.
• Fix crash bug: Double click a file associated with an older version of Notepad++ while a newer version of Notepad++ instance is running.
• lmprove main menu structure (more compact). Language Menu can be compacted as well (optional, in Preference dialog).
• Fine numbers margin width is changed dynamically according to the needed space (but keeping at least 3 digits).
• File history list (under the File menu) is limited to 100 characters per item. Longer file names are fitted to 100 characters by replacing path components with ellipses.
• Update Scintilla from v1.75 to v1.77.
• Indent guideline can be shown w/o whitespace or tab symbol.
• Fixed two bugs when calculating the width of the TaskList (document list when pressing ctrl+tab or right-click + mouse wheel.
• Add an (hidden) option to make the “Filters” and “Directory” fields follow the current opened document in “Find in files” dialog. The new parameters are located in config.xml and are called: “fifFilterFollowsDoc” and “fifFolderFollowsDoc” (set to “yes”/”no”)
• Add new command parameters: -c (column) -x et -y (startup position).
• Remove change line marker which does not work correctly. Include ChangeMarkers plugin instead.
• Fix bug “Switch to found results window” command now switches back to the current edit view if the focus is already on the found results.
• Fix the search result inaccurate colorization bug.
• Fix the Mark all in selection bug (while Find Replace Dialog loosing the focus).
• Add 2 plugins messages: NPPN_FILEBEFORELOAD and NPPN_FILELOADFAILED.
• Fix New document not be switched while double clicking in Find in files result panel.
• Fix conversion min to Maj and Maj to min (or vice et versa) in column selection bug.
• Fix bug when the find dialog was closed the translucaent shadow remained in Windows 7.
• Fix crash bug or find in files feature.
• Add “follow current doc” checkbox in Find in file dialog.
• Add the ability of tag match feature to not highlight comment zone in html/xml.
• Fix TCL language highlighting bug.

Included plugins (Unicode):

• TextFX v0.26
• NppExec v0.3 RC1
• Spell Checker v1.3.2
• MIME Tools v1.5
• FTP_synchronize v0.9.6
• NppExport v0.2.8
• DocMonitor v2.2
• NppNetNote v0.1
• ChangeMarkers 1.2.0

Included plugins (ANSI):

• extFX v0.25
• ppExec v0.3 RC1
• pellchecker v1.3.1
• IME Tools v1.5
• TP_synchronize v0.9.6
• ppExport v0.2.8
• ight Explorer v1.5
• oc Monitor v2.2
• ppNetNote v0.1
• ChangeMarkers 1.2.0

Notepad++ screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.