Years of using Notepad++ have made me appreciate the text editor even more. It's lightweight, easily extensible, offers advanced text-editing features, and has stuck around even as heavier, more ...

Using Notepadd++ as a source code editor makes writing, editing and comparing code simple. The software supports several languages, and works in both the Microsoft Windows and the Mac iOS environments ...

Numbered lines make Notepad++ an excellent text editor for programmers. Notepad++ is a portable notepad that users like computer programmers will find enormously useful, because it offers something ...

The first time Notepad++ let me down was when I tried to open a server log that had grown to a few hundred megabytes. The window came up fast enough, but the moment I tried to scroll or search through ...

The developer of the popular Windows app Notepad++ has warned users not to be fooled by a copycat site that is ranking highly on Google. Notepad++ is a text and code editor that’s been available for ...

As its name implies, the venerable Notepad++ text editor began as a more capable version of the classic Windows Notepad, with features such as line numbering and syntax highlighting. It was created in ...

The Notepad++ project is seeking the public's help in taking down a copycat website that closely impersonates Notepad++ but is not affiliated with the project. Although, at the time of writing, the ...

Notepad++ is in the news again, though it's more of a mixed bag than its last report. In short, an unlicensed Mac OS port was released for Notepad++, which is usually Windows and Linux-exclusive. In ...

Notepad++ version 8.8.9 was released to fix a security weakness in its WinGUp update tool after researchers and users reported incidents in which the updater retrieved malicious executables instead of ...

This is not a drill! The makers of the popular text editor Notepad++ are warning that the Notepad++ updater, which goes by the name WinGUp, links to malware servers. This is a case of traffic ...

Notepad++ reported that its built-in auto-update feature had been hijacked by Chinese state-sponsored hackers from June to September of 2025, and the credentials gathered by the bas actors enabled ...

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...