Notepad++ 6.0 Released

Re:Notepad++ 6.0 Released by Achshar on Monday March 26, 2012 @06:06AM (#3755913)

everyone seems to be talking about how great notepad++ is. don't get me wrong, i love it too, in fact it is my primary editor. But why isn't anyone talking about the changes that came with the update? There seems to be no changes from UI perspective. They could have just released another small update. One expects major changes with a left-most version number change. Or am i missing something?

plus if my view counts, i would like a UI overhaul. Its still very XP-eyee.

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Re:Notepad++ 6.0 Released by mulation on Monday March 26, 2012 @07:16AM (#3756100)

Perl style regular expression support is a big thing! I use notepad++ a lot, but the search has always reminded me of vim.

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Re:Notepad++ 6.0 Released by Someone on Monday March 26, 2012 @07:26AM (#3756130)

It is not only that it is Perl-style; this version also supports multiline regular expressions.

I do not like that it requires you to know a file's line endings to use them, though:

    Mac.   : a\rb
    Windows: a\r\nb
    Unix.  : a\nb

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Re:Notepad++ 6.0 Released by thewordis on Monday March 26, 2012 @09:46AM (#3756627)

I was able to do this in the previous version.

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Re:Notepad++ 6.0 Released by jussij on Monday March 26, 2012 @07:59AM (#3756216)

But is such a change worth a major version number increase?

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Re:Notepad++ 6.0 Released by mulation on Monday March 26, 2012 @10:46PM (#3759762)

Google Chrome Team started this kind of "bigger version" war, now Firefox/IE/Linux, they are all in it :-)

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Re:Notepad++ 6.0 Released by GoodIntentions on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @12:03AM (#3759962)

Nothing new. I remember Slackware 3.6 (?) jumping to version 8 in order to be closer to the other Distro's numbers. thought it was sorta stupid at the time.

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Re:Notepad++ 6.0 Released by angersock on Monday March 26, 2012 @12:22PM (#3757366)

They added a code minimap?

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