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The first release: a Notepad++-like editor for Windows, Linux and macOS.

Editing

  • Tabs with new, open, save, save as, save all and close commands; unsaved changes asked about
    on close; drag and drop; recent files; read-only files.
  • Split view: two views side by side or stacked, the same document in both, tabs dragged
    between them, synchronized scrolling.
  • Multiple carets and column (rectangular) selection with Alt+drag and Alt+Shift+arrows, into
    virtual space; Multi-select Next and All; the Column Editor with text or numbers.
  • Line operations as in Notepad++: duplicate, move, join, split, sort (including by the columns
    of a rectangle), remove duplicates and empty lines, trim, case conversion, comments.
  • Bookmarks, smart highlighting of the selected word, five token styles with Jump Up/Down.
  • Find and replace in a panel, go to line or offset, zoom, word wrap, View > Show Symbol, the
    vertical edge and the current line.
  • Long lines stay fast: typing into a 10 MB line takes under 2 ms per keystroke.

Languages

  • Syntax highlighting with tree-sitter for 50 languages, parsed incrementally in the
    background, with languages embedded in others (scripts and styles in HTML, code blocks and
    inline formatting in Markdown, HTML around PHP, regular expressions and JSDoc in
    JavaScript).
  • Folding from the syntax tree, brace matching, auto-indent, and the Large File Restriction.

Files and sessions

  • Encodings: detection, UTF-8 with or without BOM, UTF-16, legacy code pages; reinterpreting
    and converting; Edit Anyway for files that do not decode exactly, after listing every byte
    that saving would change. Saving keeps permissions, alternate data streams and links.
  • Sessions: quitting never asks about unsaved work, which is backed up and comes back on the
    next start; session files, and Notepad++'s session.xml.
  • Files changed by other programs reload, keeping carets, bookmarks and folds; View >
    Monitoring follows a growing log.

Windows, Linux and macOS

  • A menu bar usable from the keyboard on Windows and Linux (Alt, F10, Alt+letter); the native
    menu bar on macOS.
  • A Notepad++-compatible command line (-n, -c, -p, -l, -ro, -multiInst,
    -nosession, -openSession) and a single instance that takes the files of later launches.
  • Layered settings with administrator policies (the Windows registry), and a portable mode.

Installing and updating

  • A per-user installer for Windows (x64 and ARM64) that updates itself, an MSI for
    administrators, portable ZIPs for Windows and Linux, and a universal macOS app.
  • Updates are checked against an update manifest signed with ed25519, which protects against
    old or forged manifests whatever server or mirror serves them; checks can be turned off
    entirely (updates.mode = "off").
  • Nightly builds of main on the nightly channel.
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