Notepad++ Portable 5.6.4 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 the latest version.
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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release notes
Release notes available in the NotePad-Plus's forum:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/forums/forum/331753/topic/3...
P.S. Thanks, John T. Haller, for the creation and existence of the wonderful PortableApps world
Incorrectly works if non-portable Notepad++ is already installed
I've just tried to open portable N++ on PC where non-portable version of N++ is already installed.. It looks like that the N++ launcher cannot correctly re-register existing file-type handlers, so double-clicking .txt files opens Windows dialog "Open with...". After closing portable version .txt files are handled properly.
Should I think that the problem will be solved in future?
Thank you for your passions.
I guess
it (the portable version) is not supposed to register anything.
There are people working on something to register file types temporairly for portable use but thats a different project.
So strange...
Yes. It seems you're right. But registry monitoring shows that N++P launcher changed "Notepad++_file" entry for backup purposes, and restored it back after closing. Thus, I can not open file types registered to N++ while N++P is running.
Where could I find more info about this project?
PFA / eXpresso
There are two:
PortableFileAssociator which changes the Registry
and
eXpresso which monitores doubleclicks in the explorer window.
So PFa will work from any application trying to open a file but it has the risk of leaving renamed registry entries when not properly closed.
eXpresso does not have this risk, but only works within the Windows Explorer.