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On March 18, 2007 Don Ho started selling Notepad++ merchandise online. There are two shops available in the United States through [[CafePress.com|CafePress]] and [[Spreadshirt]], and one shop available in Europe through [[Spreadshirt]]. Ho got the idea to start selling his merchandise while browsing an anti-[[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] website that sold thongs sporting their logo. Items available for purchase include totes, bags, teddy bears, mugs, steins, and various apparel including thongs.<ref name="news">[http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/news.php?lang=uk Notepad++ News 18/03/2007]</ref> |
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== See also == |
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Revision as of 06:29, 18 March 2009
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| Developer(s) | Don Ho |
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| Initial release | November 24, 2003 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Source code editor |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | notepad-plus.sourceforge.net |
Notepad++ is a source code editor for Windows. It is distributed as free software. The project is hosted on SourceForge.net, from where it has been downloaded over thirteen million times.[1]
This project, based on the Scintilla editor component, is written in C++ with pure Win32 API calls using only the STL in order to increase performance and reduce program size. The aim of Notepad++ is to reduce overall power consumption by using efficient binaries that require less CPU power, ideally resulting in a greener environment.][2]
Programming languages supported
Notepad++ supports syntax highlighting for 48 programming, scripting, and markup languages.[2] Users can also define their own language by using the built-in User Language Define System to have syntax highlighting and syntax folding.[2]
Features
Some of its features include: [2]
- Auto-completion (language and file)
- Bookmarks
- Syntax highlighting (and brace and indent highlighting)
- Drag-and-drop
- File status auto-detection
- Regular expression find and replace
- Split screen editing
- Zooming
- Spell checker (built in but requires Aspell)
- Hex editor (plug-in included in standard installation)
- Tabbed document interface
- FTP Browser (plug-in included in standard installation)
- Support for various file formats including unicode.
Although Scintilla does not support multiline regular expression search and replace, Notepad++ does contain support for plugins which help mitigate this fact.
Plugins
Notepad++ has support for macros and plugins. Currently, there are 27 official plugins for Notepad++, 10 of which are included by default in the program.[3] The first plugin ever to be included by default in the program is TextFX. This plugin features extremely useful tools such as W3C validation for HTML and CSS, text sorting, character case alteration and quote handling.[4]
Compatibility
Notepad++ is available only for the Microsoft Windows operating system. However, users can still get Notepad++ to work on other platforms, like Linux and Mac OS X, using software such as Wine.
Merchandise
On March 18, 2007 Don Ho started selling Notepad++ merchandise online. There are two shops available in the United States through CafePress and Spreadshirt, and one shop available in Europe through Spreadshirt. Ho got the idea to start selling his merchandise while browsing an anti-RIAA website that sold thongs sporting their logo. Items available for purchase include totes, bags, teddy bears, mugs, steins, and various apparel including thongs.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "SourceForge.net: Project Statistics for Notepad++". SourceForge.net. Retrieved 2008-05-01.
- ^ a b c d Notepad++ Homepage Cite error: The named reference "Homepage" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Notepad++ Download Page
- ^ TextFX Official Homepage
- ^ Notepad++ News 18/03/2007
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