Description

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
(http://www.scintilla.org) and works on NT-based versions of Windows.


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.x

The most important changes in Notepad2 2.0.x compared with version 1.0.12 include support for ini-file storage of the program settings, modeless find and replace dialogs, multiline find and replace operations (using backslash expressions), optional file change notification, and many more.

There's also some regressions, i.e. ANSI code page support has been reduced to the system default, the bookmarks feature has been removed, a few syntax schemes have been dropped, and Notepad2 does no longer run on Windows 9x. If you need any of these features, you'll have to stick to Notepad2 version 1.0.12.

Download

Source: msfn

Thought I'd give a tip how to replace your old Notepad with Notepad2

Place your downloaded notepad2.exe in c:\ and run the batch:

may i know..? izzit useful??

It has a tons of features that are mostly useful for programmers, but other people will benefit from it too. The interface looks just as simple as the windows Notepad.

Your code doesn't work for mine

This 1 is easier, don't have to place ur notepad2 anywhere, just run this batch:



This post has been edited by shinjite: May 27 2007, 07:05 PM

how to batch?

copy all the text in the code box as post above, open noptepad, paste, then save to "whatever.bat", make sure not save as txt file, after that u will see a "black box" pop up and disappear... means u r done !

will notepad2 load as fast as notepad?

yes, load as fast as notepad

notepad oso gt new version?

hehe,im outdated

I had used notepad2 but i found out 1 thing that im not really like about it. That is its not supported unicode if the file name was in unicode word and u double click on it, it will said file missing

This post has been edited by bububang: Jul 13 2007, 10:30 PM

try the latest version lo, old version indeed doesnt support utf8/unicode/extended ascii and its buggy.

here is the variant from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad2/

We can use this without replacing our notepad too, right?
Don't feel like replacing my old notepad but wanted to try this one out.

eh.. can this program run in vista?