Notepad++ : A Powerful Replacement To Notepad
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I use Windows Notepad to open most text files including source code files to have a quick look at them. It is good software but sometimes you need a tool which has more functionality. If you have felt the same then try Notepad++, a tool which I have been using for sometime as notepad replacement.
Right out of the box (without any plugin installs) Notepad++ supports and array of features lacking in basic Windows notepad. It is very light and opens up almost as fast as Notepad. Some of the features are:
- Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding : with support for many programming languages
- WYSIWYG
- User Defined Syntax Highlighting
- Auto-completion
- Multi-Document
- Multi-View
- Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
- Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported
- Dynamic position of Views
- File Status Auto-detection
- Zoom in and zoom out
- Multi-Language environment supported
- Bookmark
- Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
- Macro recording and playback
It is a very stable product at version 4.0. You can have a peak at the screenshots here.
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I use for editing Notepad++ because is a very complex program and support languages like C; C++; Java; C#; XML; HTML; PHP; CSS; makefile ASCII art (.nfo); doxygen ini file and other. Olso you can edit several documents at the same time. I got it from here: rosoftdownload.com/download/Windows/Notepad