Notepad++ Portable 5.5.1 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 the latest release. 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.
Features
Notepad++ 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
New In This Release
This new release updates Notepad++ to 5.5.1.
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.
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Notepad++ Portable is available for immediate download from the Notepad++ Portable homepage. Get it today!
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I hate to be pessimistic but I'm a little gun-shy after upgrading to 5.5 revision 2 and having all kinds of annoying issues.
Anyone care to share their experiences? Am I safe to upgrade or am I better off sticking with 5.4 for now? Anyone having problems with this not remembering sessions (open tabs), or giving all kinds of constant plugin upgrade messages?
No reflection on PA.c and I like this application a lot, I was just disappointed in the previous release.
well...
I tried 2 things:
Upgrade from 5.4.5 to 5.5.1 and upgrade from 5.5 rev2 to 5.5.1.
In both cases the actual upgrade goes fine, but it asks me to update a plugin on first launch which includes downloading 2 others. After an auto-restart, my opened file is gone. it also deletes a plugin. I think it does that because it cant find its data because the data is in the data folder and not in the app folder. You can always say no to the plugin update but it will ask you on every launch.
Reset
It should restart properly, but of course anything you were working on will be gone. Then just close and reopen and you should be back to your proper portable Notepad++ install.
The issue is because Notepad++ itself has again broken compatibility with plugins that were included by default in previous versions of itself.
yes
just to confirm it:
No settings are left on the PC you update your plugins on.
plugins
But it seems like it's stuck in an endless loop. Is this because it keeps downloading incompatible plugins repeatedly?
I don't see how this effects sessions either, unless that feature is a plugin too (which I suppose it could be).
I know this isn't the place to complain about the application itself, but I'm just trying to see if other users are experiencing the same problems with Notepad++ Portable as I am, and if they've been addressed yet.
Perhaps I should go straight to the source as it were, I just don't want the portable version being blamed for all the problems.
Nope
The update works fine for me and on next launch, it's fine. I double-checked by installing the 5.4.5 portable version, running and then installing 5.5.1 over it. The update prompt occurred, it updated, on next start I get the prompt about the other plugin no longer working and disabling, I say yes, done. All subsequent launches it works fine again.
Please post to the forums if you're still having problem. It is not a universal issue.
I was having the endless loop
I was having the endless loop problem. I made a clean install in a new location and there's no issue now. there may have been some old pref file or god knows what that was causing a problem. no idea what.
Same here
Same issue here as above. Solution was a complete fresh install.
Ironically, I had the endless
Ironically, I had the endless plugin loop thing as well, then I installed the new version over the old and it's fixed.
Thanks!
Many thanks for this. No plugin issues here (I don't really use them anyway) and I'm glad the "eyes" icon was so short-lived.
Eyes Icon
Well that's one reason to upgrade immediately! :lol:
Notepad++ Changelogs
The difficult-to-find changelogs can be found in Notepad++'s SourceForge Forums...
The changelog for NPP 5.5 (with the new lizard icon)
"**Notepas++ v5.5**"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/forums/forum/331753/topic/3...
And the changelog for NPP 5.5.1 (the old icon is back)
"Notepad++ 5.5.1 released"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/forums/forum/331753/topic/3...
Thanks
Thanks for finding these. I tried by failed. Don used to put the change logs up on the main website but it seems that he stopped doing that (maybe not enough time, I don't know).
I hate to see someone's work take a beating but I guess the icon didn't go down too well judging by some of the comments!