Search++ version 0.6

Search++ is a work in progress. It is not feature-complete and has not undergone thorough testing yet. Use with caution. That said, your feedback is welcome and very much appreciated. There is a discussion topic in the Notepad++ community, or you can create a GitHub issue. There is a help file.

This update adds a Search in Files dialog for searching files on disk without loading them into Notepad++ first. It is a multi-threaded search of the files within a directory, with the ability to limit the files searched by selecting or excluding extensions or by matching the file path to a regular expression, by size and by date. You can open the new dialog from the Tools menu or from the main plugin menu.

Be cautious about searching large files (hundreds of megabytes or more) with the 32-bit version. It is entirely possible to run out of memory and crash Notepad++ without warning or any chance to recover anything.

To install Search++ download Search++-0.6-x86.zip or Search++-0.6-x64.zip, depending on whether you're using 32-bit or 64-bit Notepad++. Unzip the file to a folder named Search++ (the name must be exactly that, or Notepad++ will not load the plugin) and copy that folder into the plugins directory where Notepad++ is installed (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins for 32-bit versions or C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins for 64-bit versions).