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 2.1.19 (released April 10, 2008)

- "Line Comment" (Ctrl+Q) and "Stream Comment" (Ctrl+Shift+Q)
- "Title Case" (Ctrl+Alt+T) and "Sentence Case" (Ctrl+Alt+S)
- "Compress Whitespace" (Alt+P) command reduces spaces and tabs
- Original Notepad .LOG feature
- /f command line switch to set ini-file (/f0 to omit ini-file)
- /p command line switch trumps sticky window position
- /p0 uses system default settings for new window position
- Move new off-screen windows prior to resizing
- Option to skip Unicode text detection (File, Encoding, Default)
- Reload file with different default encoding (Ctrl+F8, Shift+F8)
- Unsaved documents with just whitespace considered empty
- Improved handling of relative path names
- File dialog filters can be specified in the Notepad2 ini-file
- Type of indent guides can be specified in the Notepad2 ini-file
- Track width of displayed text to adjust horizontal scroll range
- Selected find results are better scrolled into view
- Restore scrolling positions on revert
- Ctrl+Back and Ctrl+Del stop at newlines, as usual on Windows
- Ctrl+Space doesn't select initial line indentation whitespace
- Ctrl+Tab hotkey modified to always insert a tabulator
- Increase (Alt++) and decrease (Alt+-) long lines limit
- Display long lines limit in statusbar if visual marker enabled
- Import and export settings from customization dialog (Alt+I, Alt+X)
- Added "Regular Expression" style to JavaScript and Java schemes
- Updated filename extension lists with more default types
- Updated Python keywords to version 3.0
- Simplified SQL keywords (merged from MySQL and SQLite)
- Improved compatibility with Windows Vista
- Improved visual appearance of toolbar button images
- Print margins can be set to "0"
- Fixed several bugs with regular expression find and replace
- Fixed bug with hanging of recent files dialog
- Fixed bug with charset not being saved properly
- Fixed bug with display of text selection at the beginning of lines
- Fixed bug with cursor movement at the start and end wrapped lines
- Updated Scintilla library to 1.76

Full changelog and Helps doc:
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/doc/Notepad2.txt

Notepad2 2.1.19 Source Code
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/zip/np2src.zip

Notepad2 2.1.19 Binary Files
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/zip/notepad2.zip

Notepad2 3.1.21-rc1
Download version 3.1.21-rc1
Download version 3.0.20

Notepad2 3.1.21 RC3
Download: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/zip/notepad2-rc.zip

Thanks! Updating now!

Notepad2 v3.1.21 RC3 Changelog:

Thanks.

this is cool!!

so long waiting the new release for this software..already use before this..wanna try the new version..thanks..

Notepad2 3.1.21 RC4
Source Code

thanks for the update..

New in Version 3.1.21-rc4 (released March 10, 2009)

The new release.this software so good to use..

Notepad2 3.1.21

QUOTE

- No ini-file is created by default (save settings with F7, once)
- "Move Up" and "Move Down" keep selection and work with blocks
- Set cursor to start (Ctrl+,) or end of text selection (Ctrl+.)
- "URL Encode" (Ctrl+Shift+E) and "URL Decode" (Ctrl+Shift+R)
- "Escape" (Ctrl+Alt+E) and "Unescape C Special Chars" (Ctrl+Alt+U)
- "Sort Lines" with several options (Alt+O)
- "Pad With Spaces" block command (Alt+B)
- "Replace Next" assigned to hotkey (F4)
- Auto strip trailing blanks option (File, Line Endings, Default)
- Remapped "Transparent Mode" hotkey to Ctrl+0
- Simple XML detection for files without extensions
- Simple language detection for cgi and fcgi files
- Reload file without file variable parsing (Alt+F8)
- Enabled better styling of C/C++ preprocessor elements
- Recent files and search strings merged with existing items on save
- Paste board mode ignores immediately repeated copy actions
- Command line switch + to accept multiple files (quoted spaces)
- Command line switch - to accept single file argument (no quotes)
- Option to set default command line mode (single or multiple files)
- Command line switches to set file encoding and line ending mode
- More /p command line switches (see "Command Line Switches" below)
- /r command line switch to reuse existing window
- /ns and /rs command line switches to enable single file instance
- Renamed /t command line switch to /d (select default text scheme)
- /t command line switch to set window title
- Set window title to excerpt of current text selection (Ctrl+9)
- Save relative pathnames for recent files (ini-option to disable)
- Save relative directories for "Open with..." and "Favorites"
- "Open with..." no longer sends short pathnames to external programs
- External commands use current file directory as working directory
- Remember "Save Copy" location until exit
- Require only single click to restore window from tray icon
- "Reuse Window" option timeout improves opening multiple files
- Replaced "Find Up" option with "Find Previous" button in dialogs
- "Find Wrap" notification dialogs provide "Cancel" button
- Option to suppress replace count notifications
- Find and replace dialogs provide new system menu commands
- Dialog boxes use correct theme fonts on Vista
- Patches to default styles, file types and auto-detection by Kai Liu
- Incorporated base x64 source code compatibility patch
- Fixed some problems with relative ini-file locations
- Fixed some minor file variable problems
- Fixed some encoding detection issues
- Fixed some find and replace problems
- Fixed several memory leaks when saving files
- Fixed several memory leaks for editing operations
- Reduced size of Notepad2.exe program file

http://www.flos-freeware.ch/zip/notepad2.zip