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Notepad4 (Notepad2⨯2, Notepad2++) is a light-weight Scintilla based text editor for Windows with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin...

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About Notepad4 (AVX2)

Notepad4 (Notepad2⨯2, Notepad2++) is a light-weight Scintilla based text editor for Windows with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin matepath.

What's new in 26.03r6058

* Scintilla updated to 5.6.0, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for the changes. * Localization for Polish, discussion #943, contributed by @kbabol and @miroslaw-zylewicz in PR #1160, etc. * Markdown like URL highlighting for all schemes (only enabled for file less then 256 MB, the threshold is currently not configurable), issue #52. * Add "Tools -> Web Tools" menu to collect Web developing related menus (see table below), contributed by @lostindark in PR #1148. * Reload program INI file (`Notepad4.ini` or `Notepad4 DarkTheme.ini`) after it been edited and saved in Notepad4, discussion #1159. * Support multiple selections for invert, title and sentence case converting and text transliteration (except Korean Hanja to Hangul), issue #963, #1149. * Use Visual Studio 2026 to build release binary, issue #829. * Improve syntax highlighting for large file. * Lexer and API updates: CSS, TypeScript. * Fix case insensitive text search bug for DBCS code pages, issue #1178. * Other bug fixes and improvements. Behavior Changes Some menus were moved into new "Tools -> Web Tools" menu, see PR #1148: | Old Menu | New Menu | |--|--| | Tools -> Action on Selection -> CSS/JS/JSON Compress | Tools -> Web Tools -> CSS/JS/JSON Compress | | Tools -> Action on Selection -> CSS/JS/JSON Pretty | Tools -> Web Tools -> CSS/JS/JSON Pretty | | Edit -> Special -> Escape HTML/XML Chars | Tools -> Web Tools -> Escape HTML/XML Chars | | Edit -> Special -> Unescape HTML/XML Chars | Tools -> Web Tools -> Unescape HTML/XML Chars | | Tools -> URL Encode | Tools -> Web Tools -> URL Encode | | T...

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Version Updated Notes
26.03r6058 Unknown * Scintilla updated to 5.6.0, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for the changes. * Localization for Polish, discussion #943, contributed by @kbabol and @miroslaw-zylewicz in PR #1160, etc. * Markdown li...
26.01r5986 Unknown * Support regex replace with JavaScript notation `$n`, `$&` and `$$` (see table below), issue #1019. * Auto show menu on press `Alt` key when menu is hide, issue #1047. * Add Unicode control character U+00AD (`SHY`, Soft...
25.11r5880 Unknown * Scintilla updated to 5.5.8, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for the changes. * Support transparent on losing focus for main window, issue #1111. * Lexer and API updates: C#, CSS, JavaScript, Kotlin,...
25.09r5812 Unknown * Support AVX512, issue #987, contributed by @missdeer in PR #1006. * Add menu "File -> New Window" and toolbar button to open a new empty window, issue #344. * Optimize large file loading. * CSS/JS/JSON code compress no...
25.07r5738 Unknown * Scintilla updated to 5.5.7, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for the changes. * Restore selection after undo and redo, issue #966. * New rendering technology Direct3D, issue #974. * Lexer and API upd...
25.06r5696 Unknown * Fix editor window no longer drawing after convert line endings, issue #1040. * Other bug fixes and improvements.
25.05r5690 Unknown * Improve word wrap for large file. * Fix file watching bug after current file been deleted, discussion #1025. * Other bug fixes and improvements.
25.05r5670 Unknown * Improve display and word wrap for emoji and Indic scripts. * Improve CJK font display, issue #1013. * Improve Russian translation, contributed by @Dimmitrius. * Improve Traditional Chinese translation, contributed by @...
25.01r5618 Unknown * Scintilla updated to 5.5.4, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for the changes. * Improved large file support, issue #911. * Support size adjustment (`size:[±]pixel`) for code folding margin width, iss...
24.11r5548 Unknown * Localization for German (issue #215), contributed by @xelsios in PR #883. * Localization for Russian, contributed by @tretdm in PR #893. * Add option to show change history marker, issue #752. * HD version add menu "Us...
24.09r5472 Unknown * Scintilla updated to 5.5.2, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for the changes. * Support Boost regex (see Perl Regular Expression Syntax for document), issue #725, contributed by @atauzki in PR #722....
24.07r5332 Unknown 💡Tips 1: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad4.ini, matepath.ini or any theme (INI) files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes if any. 💡Tips 2: `boost_regex` branch contains Notepad...