Notepad++ 4.9 Workers' Day Edition


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What's new in this version:

Notepad++ v4.9 fixed bugs and added features (from v4.8.5) :

  1. Add smart highlighting feature (double click a word to highlight all the same word in the document).
  2. Enhance visual effect of Mark all feature.
  3. Enhance Incremental search dialog docking.
  4. Enhance Incremental search : add Highlight all feature.
  5. Add auto-hide menu feature (IE7 style menu - Alt or F10 to toggle).
  6. Enhance tool bar GUI usability (display a chevron while some tool icons hidden).
  7. Add style transparency feature, right click on color to enable.
  8. Fix the files not opening by DnD bug.
  9. Enhance Find Replace dialog : Add "Extended" option - search (and replace) for tabs(\t), newline(\n\r), and a characters by it's value (\o, \x, \b, \d, \t, \n, \r and \\).
  10. Bug fixed : Find dialog always scrolls text into view now.
  11. Add places bar in save as dialog.
  12. Fix non-recognized relative path bug in command line mode (under Dos prompt).
  13. Add 2 messages for doc monitor plugin.
  14. Fix the transparency bug (in Styler Configurator).
  15. Make search in hidden directory (for Find in files) optional.
  16. Fix the replace bug while replacing nothing.
  17. Fix the F3 searching direction bug.

Included plug-ins:

  1. TexFX v0.24a
  2. NppExec v0.2 RC3.2
  3. Spell Checker v1.3.1
  4. MIME Tools v1.4
  5. FTP_synchronize v0.9.6
  6. NppExport v0.2.7.3
  7. Compare plugin v1.5.1
  8. Light Explorer v1.4
  9. Doc Monitor v2.1

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Forgive my ignorance, but what is the difference between NPP 4.9 and NPP 4.9 "Workers Day Edition"?

None. Notepad++ 4.9 was released on May 1st, which in some countries marks Workers' Day, hence the tongue-in-cheek epithet the devs gave the release.

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