Table of contents
2. Search for notepad-plus-plus
3. Enter the Release interface
I. Introduction
A few days ago, a colleague asked me if I had a Notepad ++ installation package, and he encountered problems when downloading the installation package. He used Baidu to search for Notepad ++ downloads, but none of the download links came out of the official download center, but various unofficial download centers. Downloading software from such an unofficial download center may bind a lot of rogue software. If you are unlucky, you may even download a virus. I said that the official website of this software has been shut down, and the links from Baidu are not official. However, Notepad ++ is an open source software, and we can download the safe, latest, released version of the software on GitHub.
He didn't know how to download Notepad ++ on GitHub, so I helped him download the Release Notepad ++ on GitHub. I think many people will encounter the same problem. It is necessary to write an article to record the download steps to help everyone download the official notepad-plus-plus safely. This article will introduce what Notepad ++ is in the second section, and introduce the steps to download Notepad ++ from GitHub in the third section. In the fourth section, I will upload the latest official installation package to csdn. If you want to get the download package directly or you cannot access GitHub, you can download it directly in this section to solve your urgent needs. But it is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish. I still hope you can learn how to download resources on GitHub.
2. What is Notepad++
Notepad++ is a free, open-source text editor that is more powerful than Notepad that comes with your operating system. Because it has syntax highlighting and syntax folding. So in addition to text editing, you can also write program files, which is very popular among programmers.
3. Download from GitHub
1. GitHub address
First of all, we need to know that the address of GitHub is https://github.com/ . After opening, the homepage is as shown in the figure below:
2. Search for notepad-plus-plus
Then enter: notepad-plus-plus in the search box in the upper right corner, the first one is the official warehouse of Notepad ++, and the development language is C++. As shown below:
3. Enter the Release interface
Click to enter the warehouse, you can see the source code of Notepad ++, and there is the Release version of Notepad ++ on the right. Click to see various versions of Notepad++ and its SHA256 Digest. If you are interested, you can also verify its SHA256 Digest. Therefore, the software downloaded here is absolutely official and will not be bound to rogue software.
4. Download
Next, we can see Notepad++ in different ways in Assets. You can download the software ending in exe, and you can use it after installing it in Windows. The installation step is just to click next without thinking. You can also download the green version of the software ending in 7z and zip, which can be used after decompression without installation.
By the way, there is another detail to distinguish. We can see that there are arm64 and x64 in the file name, arm64 refers to the 64-bit ARM architecture processor, and x64 generally refers to the 64-bit x86 architecture processor. Apple's CPU uses the ARM architecture, while Intel and AMD's CPUs use the x64 architecture. If you can't distinguish the CPU architecture, you can download the common version, such as npp.8.4.6.Installer.exe and npp.8.4.6.portable.zip in the figure below.
3. Download in csdn
If you want to get the download package directly or you don't have access to GitHub, you can download it directly here. I downloaded the Notepad ++ installation package and the green compressed package from GitHub, and uploaded them to the resource library of csdn. The download address is shown below.
The 8.4.6 installation version of Notepad++
8.4.6 7z green compressed version of Notepad++
8.4.6 zip green compressed version of Notepad++
Four. Conclusion
Writing here, I think you should have learned to use GitHub to download resources. Similarly, if you want to download other open source software, you can also use this method to download. Although I gave the download address of Notepad ++ in csdn in the third section, I still hope that you can download it on GitHub yourself. As a programmer, you must understand GitHub and learn to use GitHub. There are many famous open source projects in it, which are very good for reference and learning.