Our Download of the Day today is Notepad++ 5.9.3.

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL Licence.

Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding

• WYSIWYG

• User Defined Syntax Highlighting

• Auto-completion

• Multi-Document

• Multi-View

• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported

• Full Drag 'N' Drop supported

• Dynamic position of Views

• File Status Auto-detection

• Zoom in and zoom out

• Multi-Language environment supported

• Bookmark

• Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting

• Macro recording and playback

The latest version includes the following changes:

Changes in Version 5.9.3

# New features and fixed bugs:

* Update Scintilla to 2.27.

* Make Recent File List totally customizable.

* Add Vertical File Switcher feature.

* Add active folding area highlighting feature (only for box and circle mode).

* Detect the absence of Scintilla.

* Add 2 plugins messages NPPM_GETLANGUAGENAME & NPPM_GETLANGUAGEDESC.

* Fix "Replace all" feature hangs on the Regular Expression '$'.

* Fix wrong result returned by NPPM_GETLANGUAGENAME.