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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.



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


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


I was able to do this in the previous version.


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


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


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.


They added a code minimap?




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