Reviews of Notepad++

1. 
   Sorb

   Reviewing 5.5.1 (Oct 12, 2009)

   Notepad++ v5.5:
   * New icon : change from old icon to a cool chamelon icon.
   
   Notepad++ v5.5.1:
   * Old icon is back.
   
   Hahaha!! :) Good choice!
2. 
   netean

   Reviewing 5.5.0 (Sep 21, 2009)

   I've had this installed for a while, but only really scratched the surface, using it as a notepad replacement for ages. Then i was looking for a simple editor for php/web page without having to run dreamweaver all the time.
   
   so I turned to notepad++ and I am sooo very glad I did. The more I delve into it, the more I realise it truly is superb. There is so much it can do, and it seems to do it all very well.
   
   I can easily record macros and save them with ease.
   I've added some php plugins for code completion (and they work very well)
   I've started to use the ftp client, and again it's very good
   and the projects option (plugin iirc)
   add on teh file manager plugin and it's just great.
   
   sure, a lot of that is plugin based, but I quite like that, it has meant the app stayed small when I was justing using it for a notepad replacement and now I'm using it more in-depth I bolt on very useful features.
   
   I really like this. only wish I'd realised how good it was a long time ago.
   
   ..and it runs really well in linux with Wine. I know there are plenty of text editors around in linux, but if you need to work in linux and windows you can at least use the same editor (if you want)
3. 
   Andy Dean

   Reviewing 5.5.0 (Sep 21, 2009)

   I agree that the new icon is crap. However the app itself is as good as ever.
   Still a 5 star rating for useability.
4. 
   dhry

   Reviewing 5.5.0 (Sep 21, 2009)

   https:// links, a problem brought to the author's attention several times, with the first time being in 2007, STILL don't work. Plus, the News area on their site shows 5.3.1 as being the latest version. Plus the progam icon has now inexplicably changed to something evidently inspired by Marty Feldman. Once again, one star.
   
   Edit: Oh, and something else I've discovered that I dislike about it. Hitting the home or end keys doesn't move the cursor to the start or end of the current ROW that it's on, instead it moves the cursor to the first or last character of the line itself, which if you have word wrap on could be several rows above or below your current cursor position. No other editor that I just tested does this (I have about ten installed). ZOMG. If only PSPad didn't force you to use monospaced fonts I'd point blank recommend it right here. Guess Notepad2 still reigns supreme.
   
   Edit 2: Found even more bugs. Try changing the colour of the inactive tabs, looks fine while you're changing it but as soon as you click Save in the dialog they revert and the change doesn't persist. Plus the TextFX Edit -> Trim Trailing Spaces plugin doesn't trim trailing spaces if a single line contains several spaces (but no text). Trimming a single trailing space from a line that only contains spaces is ridiculous. Crapburger program.
5. 
   Wilfried

   Reviewing 5.4.5 (Sep 2, 2009)

   I finally had enough of it, it's a blind dump a half- or non working crap, extremely poor documentation, a crappy wiki page, macro's which don't record, nor save, which you can't edit, all in all a crap notepad replacement, there are much better one available today.

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