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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.

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Free, powerful text/source editor
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Tabbed editing environment
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Customizable interface (colors, fonts, etc.)
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Powerful regular expression text search and replace
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You can set up to Windows to use Notepad++ by default instead of standard Notepad
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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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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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4 comments about Notepad++

1.  avatar Erik  Apr 01, 2008 11:20am

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!
2.  avatar Whipdaddy  Apr 03, 2008 4:49pm

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

3.  avatar exumer  May 15, 2008 4:07pm

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.
4.  avatar GT-D  May 16, 2008 3:44pm

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

    Manufacturer Don Ho
    MSRP $0.00
    Release Date Nov. 24, 2003

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    7 contributors -  Erik, Whipdaddy, yaminb, GT-D, exumer, Manzabar, Ueberu
    Created: 04/01/2008 - 11:06
    Modified: 09/13/2008 - 12:55