Notepad++ Portable 5.5 Revision 2 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on October 6, 2009 - 5:03pm

Notepadpp logoNotepad++ Portable 5.5 Revision 2 has been released. It's the handy Notepad++ text editor packaged as a portable app so you can do your development on the go. It has all the same great features of Notepad++ including support for multiple languages and an extensive plugin system, but there's nothing to install. This release updates Notepad++ to 5.5 and has an improved launcher. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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Revision 2: An updated version of 5.5 has been posted with a fix for Notepad++'s plugin updater.

Features

Notepad++ Portable ScreenshotNotepad++ Portable is a full-featured text editor with features like:

  • Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding (C, C++, HTML, ASP, Java, Pascal, CSS and more)
  • User Defined Syntax Highlighting
  • Auto-completion
  • Multi-Document
  • Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
  • Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported
  • Zoom in and zoom out
  • Multi-Language environment supported
  • Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
  • Macro recording and playback

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New In This Release

This new release updates Notepad++ to 5.5 and handles user-defined languages better.

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

Notepad++ Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

Notepad++ Portable is available for immediate download from the Notepad++ Portable homepage. Get it today!

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computerfreaker's picture

Thanks for the update, John! Great work as usual! Biggrin

"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."

When I first started this after updating, I got a message saying a plugin needed to be updated. I let it do so, then told me Notepad++ needed to be restarted. When it tried to restart, I instead got this message: "A file needed by the plugin manager (gpup.exe) is not present under the updater directory. You should update or reinstall the Plugin Manager plugin to fix this problem. Notepad++ will not restart." This would be bad enough, except now it keeps prompting me to finish "pending actions" and restart every time I run it! Bah...

By the way, I realize it's not your fault John, but I'm not a fan of the new lizard icon. Especially bad under Windows 7, which by default doesn't show the names of taskbar icons. I keep asking myself "What the heck is that lizard icon?" and it takes a bit for me to realize that it's Notepad++. Shouldn't a program's icon represent what it does? Using a mascot for a program icon is just a really stupid idea IMO. I hope the developers go back to the old icon...

John T. Haller's picture

I can confirm this on updates for plugin issues. This is now fixed in revision 2.

I don't like the new icon either.

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