Editing Notepad++ (section)

{{short description|Text editor and source code editor for Windows}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Notepad++
| logo = Notepad++ Logo.svg
| logo size = 125px
| screenshot = Notepad++ v7 on Windows 10, with MediaWiki 1.27.1 source code, with split window view and autocompletion.png
| screenshot size = 300px
| caption = Notepad++ v7 on [[Windows 10]], depicting [[MediaWiki]] 1.27.1 source code
| developer = Don Ho
| released = {{start date and age|2003|11|24|df=yes}}
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|edit|reference|Q2033|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|Q2033|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}}}
| programming language = [[C++]]
| operating system = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/SUPPORTED_SYSTEM.md|title=Supported OS Table|website=GitHub|date=28 November 2021}}</ref>
| platform = [[IA-32]], [[x86-64]], [[AArch64]]
| language count = 90
| language = Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Aragonese, Aranese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Brazilian portuguese, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Extremaduran, Persian, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Mongolian, Norwegian, Nynorsk, Occitan, Piglatin, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samogitian, Sardinian, Serbian, Serbian Cyrillic, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish Argentinian, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik Cyrillic, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Uzbek Cyrillic, Venetian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Zulu
| genre = [[Source code editor]]
| license = 2021:{{efn|GPL-3.0-or-later since version 7.9.3.}} [[GNU General Public License|GPL 3.0 or later]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Notepad++ 7.9.3 release|url=https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v7.9.3/|date=2021-02-15|website=notepad-plus-plus.org|language=en}}</ref><br/>2003:{{efn|GPL-2.0-or-later from version 1.0 to 7.9.2.}} [[GNU General Public License|GPL 2.0 or later]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Upgrade Notepad++ License|url=https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/ab5c1d3e2a9718a3cc365c1e44bfae09bb7355bc |date=2021-01-24 |website=GitHub |language=en}}</ref>
| website = {{URL|notepad-plus-plus.org}}
}}

{{distinguish|Notepad+|Windows Notepad}}'''Notepad++''' (sometimes '''npp''' or '''NPP''') is a [[text editor|text]] and [[source code editor]] for use with [[Microsoft Windows]]. It supports [[Tab (GUI)|tabbed]] editing, which allows working with multiple open files in one window. The program's name comes from the [[C (programming language)|C]] postfix [[increment operator]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Notepad++the most useful plugins for developer (npp) |website=Dirask.com |date=30 March 2021<!--from page source--> |url=https://dirask.com/posts/Notepad-the-most-useful-plugins-for-developer-npp-jEL2rp}}</ref>

Notepad++ is released as [[free and open-source software]] under a [[GNU General Public License]] (GPL) 3.0 or later. At first, the project was [[Web hosting service|hosted]] on the [[SourceForge]] [[software repository]] (2003–2010), from where it was downloaded over 28 million times,<ref>{{cite web |title=SourceForge.net: Project Statistics for Notepad++ |work=[[SourceForge.net]] |url=http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=95717&ugn=notepad-plus&type=prdownload&mode=alltime&package_id=0 |access-date=2 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url= http://sourceforge.net/top/topalltime.php?type=downloads
|title= Top Downloads - For all time, updated daily
|access-date= 18 April 2011
|publisher= [[SourceForge]]
}}</ref> and twice won the SourceForge Community Choice Award for Best Developer Tool.<ref>{{cite web
|url= http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/winners/
|title= SourceForge's 4th Annual Community Choice Awards
|access-date= 1 October 2009
|publisher= [[SourceForge]]
|archive-date= 19 September 2009
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090919045650/http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/winners/
|url-status= dead
}}</ref> Then, the project moved to TuxFamily (2010–2015), and then to [[GitHub]] (2015–present).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-on-github.html|title=Notepad++ on GitHub|website=notepad-plus-plus.org|access-date=2 June 2016|archive-date=1 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701052506/https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-on-github.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Notepad++ uses the [[Scintilla (software)|Scintilla editor component]].