Notepad++ Portable 5.1 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on November 10, 2008 - 11:06pm

Notepadpp logoNotepad++ Portable 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 5.1 (ANSI) 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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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 5.1 (release notes) and has an improved launcher that handles Notepad++ crash data. The portable release is still using the ANSI version rather than the Unicode version as most Notepad++ plugins, including many of the default plugins included with Notepad++, are not yet compatible with the Unicode version. Users can manually add the Unicode version if desired. We will be switching to the Unicode version in a later release once the default plugins are updated.

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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John T. Haller

November 11, 2008 - 10:21am

First off, Notepad++ creates a local registry entry (we clean this up). Second, Notepad++ doesn't store paths relatively, so your most recently used files, sessions, light explorer and explorer settings break as you move PCs (we adjust these for you so they all work). Third, on a crash, Notepad++ will leave files behind on the local C: drive (we move these off and preserve them for restore during the next portable launch). Fourth, Notepad++ doesn't store its data in the proper location for the PortableApps.com Platform to back it up (which you may not care about if you don't use the platform). Fifth, our package will switch languages with the platform in the next release (same caveat as number 4).

Just because something is a zip file and says it's portable, doesn't mean it's fully portable (doesn't leave files or registry keys behind, all settings work between launches) or works as well as it could with everything else in our lineup.

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billiebub

November 11, 2008 - 10:31am

then in that case your portable version supersedes the zipped version. good stuff

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