Notepad2

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Notepad2 is an open-source text editor for Microsoft Windows, released under a BSD software license. It is written by Florian Balmer using the Scintilla editor component, and was first publicly released in April 2004. Balmer based Notepad2 on the principle of Microsoft Notepad: small, fast and usable.

It features syntax highlighting for the following computer languages: ASP, Assembly, C, C++, C#, CGI, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, NSIS, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, VB, VBScript, XHTML and XML. It also features syntax highlighting for the following file formats: BAT, DIFF, INF, INI, REG and configuration files (.properties).^[1]

Notepad2 also has several other features:

• Auto indentation
• Bracket matching
• Encoding conversion between ASCII, UTF-8 and UTF-16 formats
• Multiple undo/redo; rectangular block selection
• Newline conversion, between DOS (CR/LF), Unix (LF) and Mac (CR) formats
• Regular expression-based find and replace

Balmer has stated that some features will probably never be implemented in Notepad2, as they are beyond his design goal of a simple Notepad-like application. These include Notepad2's most requested feature, a multiple document interface.^[2]

[edit] See also

• List of text editors
• Comparison of text editors
• Scintilla (editing component)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Notepad2 - Flo's Freeware
• Notepad2 at SourceForge.net