[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 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
[changelog]
- 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)
- "Replace Next" assigned to hotkey (F4)
- Remapped "Transparent Mode" hotkey to Ctrl+0
- Simple XML detection for files without extensions
- Simple language detection for cgi and fcgi files
- 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 switches to set file encoding and line ending mode
- /ps command line switch to use internal default window position
- /r command line switch to reuse existing window
- /ns and /rs command line switches to enable single file instance
- External commands use current file directory as working directory
- Require only single click to restore window from tray icon
- Find and replace dialogs provide new system menu commands
- Fixed some problems with relative ini-file locations
- Fixed some minor file variable problems
- 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
[download]: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/zip/notepad2-rc.zip
[screenshot]: http://www.notepad2.com/pics/Np2.jpg
[homepage]: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
[changelog]
- 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)
- "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)
- 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 and replace dialogs provide new system menu commands
- dialog boxes use correct theme fonts on vista
- 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
[download]: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/zip/notepad2-rc.zip
[screenshot]: http://www.piccdrop.com/images/1236343426.png
[homepage]: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html