Notepad 2 designed to be an improvement over Windows Notepad is the best free replacement of Windows Notepad application.
It is small, fast and free text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, CSS, Perl/CGI - C/C++, C#, Java, VB, Pascal and other common languages.
New version has been released after 3 years. See Readme file with full list of changes for the current version..
Notepad 2 Features:
- Customizable syntax highlighting:
- HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, CSS, Perl/CGI
- C/C++, C#, Java, VB, Pascal, Assembler, SQL, Python, NSIS
- INI, REG, INF, BAT, DIFF
- 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
You can download the Notepad 2 version 2.0.15 from here.
Note: New version doesnt work with Windows 9x.
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