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Notepad++ is a free, open-source text editor program often used as a replacement to Windows Notepad, and as a fairly powerful source code editor. Notepad++ has been downloaded more than 8 million times from Sourceforge.net, has been translated into many languages, and includes numerous third-party plugins. The project is based on the Scintilla editor component and is headed by a single developer named Don Ho. Notepad++ supports syntax highlighting and autocompletion of many popular programming languages and scripts, and is fully customizable. It is a tab-based editing environment allowing you to have multiple files open at once in one instance of the program.

Notepad++
MSRP $0.00
Release date November, 2003
Brand Don Ho
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Pros & Cons

ProSCORE
8 reviews
95
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8 positive
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0 negative

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Pros:
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Free, powerful text/source editor
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Tabbed editing environment
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Powerful regular expression text search and replace
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Customizable interface (colors, fonts, etc.)
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Language-specific and user-defined syntax highlighting
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Multi-view for visualizing documents side-by-side
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Does not have "Column Mode"
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Newer version does not have the ability to view hexadecimal files.
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Features

  • Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
  • User Defined Syntax Highlighting
  • Auto-completion
  • Multi-Document tabbed environment
  • Multi-View - a) place two documents side-by-side, b) view a single document in two different positions
  • Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
  • Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported
  • Dynamic position of Views
  • File Status Auto-detection (unsaved, file changed, file moved, etc.)
  • Zooming
  • Multi-Language environment supported
  • Bookmarks and line numbers
  • Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
  • Macro recording and playback

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Pros
  • Included for free with every version of Windows since '85
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Cons
  • Not many features
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  • Not a tabbed environment
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Comments

1.  avatar Erik said:

I love this program. I have a shortcut key on my MS keyboard that opens up Notepad++ and I use it for note-taking, and, ironically, product report writing for ProductWiki. (I used Notepad++ to start this report for example) It's also great if you have to wrangle with HTML, XML, JS, and whatever the web throws your way. The regex replace is very powerful. Recommend!
Apr 01, 2008 11:20am
2.  avatar Whipdaddy said:

Thanks for bringing this program to my attention a few months ago, I love Notepadd++ and use it to write all my blog entries on CarZi.com

Apr 03, 2008 4:49pm
3.  avatar exumer said:

I used this program when I learned Java back in college. Since everything is color coordinated, it easy to keep your code well formatted and neat. Anyone who codes in a markup language would find this useful.
May 15, 2008 4:07pm
4.  avatar GT-D said:

I really like Notepad++ - been using it instead of UltraEdit for awhile - bit lighter and had the features I want.
May 16, 2008 3:44pm
5.  avatar east-tec said:

This is one of the best text editors I have used. Not only that it recognizes several formats and highlights text, it also allows editing files in multiple tabs, shows line numbers and other interesting features.
Jun 18, 2009 8:51am
6.  avatar Erik said:

You can set up to Windows to use Notepad++ by default instead of standard Notepad
Sep 10, 2009 7:16pm
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Dan (Shrek)

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May 14, 2009
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ProSCORE
83
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5 pros
1 con
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Pros

  • Free, powerful text/source editor
  • Tabbed editing environment
  • Powerful regular expression text search and replace
  • Customizable interface (colors, fonts, etc.)
  • Language-specific and user-defined syntax highlighting

Cons

  • Newer version does not have the ability to view hexadecimal files.

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GT-D

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May 16, 2008
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ProSCORE
100
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6 pros
0 cons
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Pros

  • Free, powerful text/source editor
  • Tabbed editing environment
  • Powerful regular expression text search and replace
  • Customizable interface (colors, fonts, etc.)
  • Language-specific and user-defined syntax highlighting
  • Multi-view for visualizing documents side-by-side

Cons

Did not agree with any cons

Comments

"I really like Notepad++ - been using it instead of UltraEdit for awhile - bit lighter and had the features I want."

Competitors

GT-D prefers Notepad++ over UltraEdit, Windows Notepad
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yaminb

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May 13, 2008
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100
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6 pros
0 cons
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Pros

  • Free, powerful text/source editor
  • Tabbed editing environment
  • Powerful regular expression text search and replace
  • Customizable interface (colors, fonts, etc.)
  • Language-specific and user-defined syntax highlighting
  • Multi-view for visualizing documents side-by-side

Cons

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Erik

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April 1, 2008
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ProSCORE
100
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6 pros
0 cons
love itlove it
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Pros

  • Free, powerful text/source editor
  • Tabbed editing environment
  • Powerful regular expression text search and replace
  • Customizable interface (colors, fonts, etc.)
  • Language-specific and user-defined syntax highlighting
  • Multi-view for visualizing documents side-by-side

Cons

Did not agree with any cons

Comments

"I love this program. I have a shortcut key on my MS keyboard that opens up Notepad++ and I use it for note-taking, and, ironically, product report writing for ProductWiki. (I used Notepad++ to start this report for example) It's also great if you have to wrangle with HTML, XML, JS, and whatever the web throws your way. The regex replace is very powerful. Recommend!"
"You can set up to Windows to use Notepad++ by default instead of standard Notepad"

Competitors

Erik prefers Notepad++ over Windows Notepad, Vim, Emacs
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Ueberu

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September 13, 2008
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ProSCORE
100
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4 pros
0 cons
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Pros

  • Free, powerful text/source editor
  • Tabbed editing environment
  • Powerful regular expression text search and replace
  • Customizable interface (colors, fonts, etc.)

Cons

Did not agree with any cons

Competitors

Ueberu prefers Vim over Notepad++
Ueberu prefers Notepad++ over Windows Notepad, TextEdit, UltraEdit, Emacs
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georbe

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October 1, 2009
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ProSCORE
80
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4 pros
1 con
have ithave it

Pros

  • Free, powerful text/source editor
  • Tabbed editing environment
  • Powerful regular expression text search and replace
  • Multi-view for visualizing documents side-by-side

Cons

  • Does not have "Column Mode"

Competitors

georbe prefers UltraEdit over Notepad++
georbe prefers Notepad++ over Windows Notepad
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Jan

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September 10, 2009
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ProSCORE
100
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4 pros
0 cons

Pros

  • Free, powerful text/source editor
  • Tabbed editing environment
  • Powerful regular expression text search and replace
  • Customizable interface (colors, fonts, etc.)

Cons

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nullman

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November 2, 2009
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100
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1 pro
0 cons

Pros

  • Free, powerful text/source editor

Cons

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