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{{distinguish|Notepad+|Windows Notepad}}'''Notepad++''' (sometimes '''npp''' or '''NPP'''), is a [[text editor|text]] and [[source code editor]] for use with [[Microsoft Windows]]. It supports [[Tab (GUI)|tabbed]] editing, which allows working with multiple open files in one window. The program's name comes from the [[C (programming language)|C]] postfix [[increment operator]]; it is sometimes referred to as npp or NPP.<ref>{{cite web |title=Notepad++the most useful plugins for developer (npp) |website=Dirask.com |date=30 March 2021<!--from page source--> |url=https://dirask.com/posts/Notepad-the-most-useful-plugins-for-developer-npp-jEL2rp}}</ref>
 
Notepad++ is released as [[free and open-source software]] under a [[GNU General Public License]] (GPL) 3.0 or later. At first, the project was [[Web hosting service|hosted]] on the [[SourceForge]] [[software repository]] (2003–2010), from where it was downloaded over 28 million times,<ref>{{cite web |title=SourceForge.net: Project Statistics for Notepad++ |work=[[SourceForge.net]] |url=http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=95717&ugn=notepad-plus&type=prdownload&mode=alltime&package_id=0 |access-date =2 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url= http://sourceforge.net/top/topalltime.php?type=downloads
|title= Top Downloads - For all time, updated daily
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|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090919045650/http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/winners/
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}}</ref> TheThen, the project wasmoved hosted onto TuxFamily from 2010 to 2015; since 2015(2010–2015), Notepad++and hasthen been hosted onto [[GitHub]] (2015–present).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-on-github.html|title=Notepad++ on GitHub|website=notepad-plus-plus.org|access-date=2 June 2016|archive-date=1 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701052506/https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-on-github.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Notepad++ uses the [[Scintilla (software)|Scintilla editor component]].
 
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The language list also displays two special-case items for ordinary [[plain text]]: "Normal text" (default) or "[[MS-DOS]] Style", which tries to emulate [[DOS]]-era text editors.
 
Notepad++ has features to consume and create [[Cross-platform software|cross-platform]] [[plain text]] files. It recognizes three [[Newline#Representation|newline representations]] ({{mono|CR}}, {{mono|CR+LF}}, and {{mono|LF}}) and can convert between them on the fly. In addition, it supports reinterpreting plain text files in various [[character encoding]]s and can convert them to [[ASCII]], [[UTF-8]] or [[UCS-2]]. As such, it can fix plain text that seem gibberish only because [[Bush hid the facts|their character encoding is not properly detected]].
 
Notepad++ also has features that improve plain text editing experience in general, such as:
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