Notepad++ heeft zojuist versie 2.5 uitgegeven van zijn gelijknamige open-sourceteksteditor. Het programma is geschreven in C++ en heeft een aantal handige functies zoals text highlighting (voor onder andere C, C++, Java, HTML, XML en PHP) en de mogelijkheid om meerdere documenten tegelijkertijd te bewerken of zelfs één document op twee verschillende plaatsen bij te houden. Wat er allemaal precies is veranderd in deze release is te vinden in het changelog:
These are the new features and corrected bugs (from v2.4):
- Add the capacity that user can add his/her extension for each supported language.
- Add the capacity that user can add his/her keywords for each supported language.
- Add the new menu entries/features : Insert TAB, Remove TAB, Duplicate current line, transpose current line, splite lines, join lines and Move Up/Down current line.
- Add the support of languages TeX, NSIS, Flash actionscript, Unix/Linux shell script and Fortran.
- Add the new font style Underline.
- Add the Multi-instance functionality : pass the parameter -multiInst (case-sensitive) on the command line to activate it.
- Add the feature to open file by resigning the syntax highlighting, that user can pass the parameter -l (case-sensitive) to specify the set language.
- Enhance Notepad replacement of View source under IExplorer - the syntax highlighting will be set automatically as HTML (optional in Installer).
- Add the selected characters number display on the status bar.
- Add the total characters number display on the status bar.
- Correct a bug of the limit number of open file via the open file dialog.
- Correct a bug (symbol ^ as operator) for User Language Define System.
- Add the shortcut Ctrl-R to Launch the Run Dialog.
- Enhance the Run Dialog : the ability to interpreter the environment variables.
- Add the Display as UTF-8 menu entry.
- Correct an UTF-8 document display bug under Chinese/Korean/Japanese Windows.