Notepad2 is a small, light-weight, fast, free and open source Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages and many other useful features, including drag and drop, regular expression search and replace, brace matching, line numbers, keyboard shortcuts, whitespace display, zooming and more. Notepad2 offers support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files. It’s based on the Scintilla source code editing component and works on NT-based versions of Windows. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system’s registry.

• 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

New in Version 4.0.23 (released October 06, 2009):
– Added PowerShell Script syntax highlighting
– Added missing keywords to javascript schemes
– Further simplified syntax schemes by consolidating certain styles
– More accurate “mode” file variable matching with tightened rules
– Avoid repetitive zone checks when running Notepad2.exe internally
– Fixed choice of encoding conversion prompt being ignored
– Fixed recent file dialog hang with inaccessible UNC paths
– Internal changes to allow complete internationalization (future)

Homepage – http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

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