Notepad2

If you are looking for any light, syntax highlight, simple yet useful text editor for your programming, then you should have a look on the Notepad2.

 

Notepad2 is  open-source Notepad like application for Microsoft Windows, which released under the BSD software license. 

 

Notepad2 is develop by Florian Balmer using the Scintilla editor component, and was first publicly released in April 2004. Balmer based Notepad2 on the principle of Microsoft Notepad: small, fast and usable.

 

The most powerful features for Notepad2 is the syntax highlighting. It will detect the following computer language such as ASP, Assembly, C, C++, C#, CGI, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, NSIS, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, VB, VBScript, XHTML and XML. It also will automatically highlight the following file formats such as BAT, DIFF, INF, INI, REG and configuration files (.properties)

 

Not only that, Notepad2 also including the Auto indentation, Bracket matching, encoding conversion between ASCII, UTF-8 and UTF-16 formats. In addition, it also include the features of Newline conversion, between DOS (CR/LF), Unix (LF) and Mac (CR) formats. Last but not lease, the regular expression based find and replace also including in Notepad2

 

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