Notepad++ - Notepad Replacement for Windows

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

Here are the features of Notepad++ : Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding Supported languages : C C++ Java C# XML HTML PHP CSS makefile ASCII art (.nfo) doxygen ini file batch file Javascript ASP VB/VBS SQL Objective-C RC resource file Pascal Perl Python Lua TeX TCL Assembler Ruby Lisp Scheme Properties Diff Smalltalk Postscript VHDL Ada Caml AutoIt KiXtart Matlab Verilog Haskell InnoSetup CMake YAML WYSIWYG If you have a colour printer, print your source code (or whatever you want) in colour. User Defined Syntax Highlighting It allows user to define his own language : not only the syntax highlighting keywords, but also the syntax folding keywords, comment keywords and the operators. Auto-completion For most supported languages, user can make his/her own API list. Once the api file is ready, type Ctrl+Space to launch this action Multi-Document You can edit several documents at the same time. Multi-View You have two views at same time. That means you can visualize (edit) 2 different documents at the same time . You can visualize (edit) in the 2 views one document at 2 different positions as well. The modification of document in one view will carry out in another view Regular Expression Search/Replace supported You can search and replace one string in the document by using the regular expression. Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported You can open a document by drag & drop. You can also move your document from a position (or even a view) to another by drag & drop. Dynamic position of Views The user can set the position of the views dynamically (only in 2 views mode : the splitter can be set in horizontal or in vertical.). File Status Auto-detection If you modify or delete a file which opened in Notepad++, you will be notified to update your document (reload the file or remove the file). Zoom in and zoom out That's another fantastic function of Scintilla component. Just see screenshot. Multi-Language environment supported The Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hebrew Windows environments are supported. . Bookmark User can just click on the bookmark margin (located right side of line number margin) or type Ctrl+F2 to toggle a book mark. To reach the bookmark, type just F2 (Next bookmark) or Shift+F2 (Previous bookmark). To clear all bookmarks, click the Menu Search->Clear All bookmarks. Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting When the caret stay beside of one of those symbol { } [ ] ( ) , the symbol beside of caret and its symmetric opposite symbol will be highlighted, as well as the indent guideline (if any) in order to locate the block more easily. Macro recording and playback

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Category: Utility, Windows