Notepad2 is a light-weight, free and open source Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting for a few commonly used languages. It's based on the Scintilla source code editing component and works on NT-based versions of Windows. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry.
Features
- Syntax highlighting: HTML, XML, PHP, ASP (JS, VBS), CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, C/C++, C#, Resource Script, Makefiles, Java, Visual Basic, Pascal, Assembly, SQL, Perl, Python, Configuration Files, Apache Config Files, Batch Files, Diff Files
- Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2
- Basic regular expression search and replace
- Useful word, line and block editing shortcuts
- Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
- Brace matching, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
- Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files
- Open shell links
- Mostly adjustable
New in Version 2.0.15 (released April 06, 2007)
- BSD License for Notepad2 and source code (see License.txt)
- "Insert HTML/XML Tag" helper tool (Alt+X)
- Regex support for d, D, s, S, w, W, xHH
- Text selection can have "eolfilled" style (on by default)
- Caret blink rate is set to system default on startup
- Support for opening makefiles without filename extension
- Dropped Windows 9x support
- Requires msvcr70.dll runtime library
- Updated Scintilla library to 1.73
Download: Notepad2 v.2.0.15 freeware
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