Notepad 2: Another Notepad Replacement
By Madhur Kapoor on Aug 30, 2008 in Windows
If you tired of default Windows Notepad and are looking for something lighter and better, the Notepad 2 is perfect for you. Notepad2 is a fast, open source and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. It improves upon the default notepad greatly.
Some of its features are
- Customisable syntax highlighting
- Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2
- Basic regular expression search and replace
- Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
- Brace matching, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
- Auto indentation
- Multiple undo/redo; rectangular block selection
- more
It is a great utility for every user and especially programmers.
Syntax highlighting is very useful.. thanks!
Ibrahim Rabbani | Aug 30, 2008 | Reply
I still prefer EditPlus although it is not free.
CypherHackz | Aug 31, 2008 | Reply
Have you ever tried Notepad++? It has all of the features that you mentioned for Notepad 2 but also has tabs to have multiple files open.
Kim Woodbridge | Aug 31, 2008 | Reply
I use Programmer’s Notepad. Never heard of this one though. May be worth a try.
Talk Binary | Sep 2, 2008 | Reply