Notepad++ Portable 4.8 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 version, has an updated launcher and installer and is now digitally signed to ensure integrity. 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 release updates Notepad++ to the current 4.8 release, has an updated launcher and installer and is now digitally signed to ensure integrity.
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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Comments
Wow, according to SF, the
Wow, according to SF, the non-portable N++ has 0 downloads. Quick work on this one.
4.8 just released
Notepad++ 4.8 was just released (I got the email today). SF updates the the download numbers about once a day.
Thank you John for releasing this!
Sweet
This is the one I've been waiting for.
I like everything official.
Thank you.
Thanks John
for another clean update.
I just love this App and use it almost every day
4.8 has been pulled from SourceForge
Apparently can cause blue-screens on WinXP. Details here:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1952617&forum_id=331753
The included explorer.dll is the problem (in the
Notepad++Portable\App\Notepad++\Pluginsdirectory); deleting it or moving may prevent the crash.A 4.8.1 release is promised in the next few days.
EDIT: Apparently it may not be explorer.dll. The autoupdate (gup.exe) may be the issue. If so, then the portable version isn't affected, as it doesn't include gup.exe.
See the referenced thread above for more details.
Correct
It would appear that gup.exe, the autoupdater, has an issue with its manifest. As we don't use this in the portable version, it is unaffected. Nevertheless, I will release an updated 4.8.1 when they do to ensure all is in sync.
Thanks for the update. For
Thanks for the update.
For interested readers, the red herring about explorer.dll is based on comments earlier in the SF thread, where a poster reports the problem solved when explorer.dll is removed. Later comments point to gup.exe, however.
Thanks
John, now all I have to do is spend some time working on an Erlang syntax highlighting scheme