
At first, the project was hosted on, from where it was downloaded over 28 million times and twice won the SourceForge Community Choice Award for Best Developer Tool.


Notepad++ is distributed as free software. The product's name comes from the C postfix increment operator. It supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window. Notepad++ is a free and open-source text and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows. Support is provided for Chinese, Japanese and Korean Windows environments.Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Aragonese, Aranese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Brazilian portuguese, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Extremaduran, Persian, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Mongolian, Norwegian, Nynorsk, Occitan, Piglatin, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samogitian, Sardinian, Serbian, Serbian Cyrillic, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish Argentinian, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik Cyrillic, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Uzbek Cyrillic, Venetian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Zulu Receive notifications to update your documents every time you modify or delete a file that has been opened in Notepad++. You can dynamically set the position of the views. Drag & drop a document to open it or move it to another position. Support is enabled for Regular Expression Search. Edit two documents at the same time and visualize each one in a different view and/or position. Edit multiple documents simultaneously. Define syntax highlighting keywords, syntax folding keywords and also comment keywords and operators.

The Style Configurator Dialog enables you to modify the background or foreground color for each style in all supported languages. Syntax highlighting and syntax folding are available for the following programming languages: C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file (.nfo, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS source files, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python and Lua). Notepad++ is a free, comprehensive source code editor that provides support for a number of programming languages with very useful features such as syntax highlighting, multi-document, style configurator and many others.

Notepad++: A source code editor for the programmer and a better text editor.
