The program also supports autocompletion for a subset of the API of some programming languages. Users may also manually set the current language, overriding the extension's default language. It attempts to automatically detect the language that a given file uses, using a modifiable list of file extension bindings. Notepad++ supports syntax highlighting and syntax folding for 48 programming, scripting, and markup languages.

Plugins for multiline regular expression search and replace.Various tools such as line sorting, text encoding conversion, text folding.FTP Browser (plug-in included in standard installation).It also includes features for source code editing: Find and replace over multiple documents.Supports file formats such as Unicode, for international writing systems.Spell checker (requires Aspell) (Spell checker doesn't distinguish between text and code).Split screen editing and synchronized scrolling.

To display and edit text and programming language source code files, Notepad++ uses the Scintilla editor component. The project is hosted on, from where it has been downloaded over twenty million times. One main advantage of Notepad++ over the built-in Windows text editor, Notepad, is tabbed editing, to easily work with multiple open files. It can also run on Linux and Mac OS X, using software such as Wine. Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for Windows.

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