Notepad in your Windows operating system is no doubt the simplest text editor to use but it's too simple that it lacks many important features you see in some of the advanced text editors these days. For the sake of convenience you must look for a better replacement - a replacement which can offer more advanced functionalities over the current and too simple notepad.
Notepad++ is the perfect lightweight Notepad replacement , that won't cost you anything. Notepad++ is a free open source text editor which also supports several programming languages under Windows environment. It's also a perfect code editor as it supports syntax highlighting for many major programming languages including features like Line numbering.
The best thing about Notepad++ is its convenience which lets you open and edit multiple documents simultaneously in mult-tabbed environment. It is extremely easy to use and never gets into the way of what you are trying to do and saves you a lot of time.
FEATURES
Some prominent features of Notepad++ :
- Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding (for many popular programming languages)
- WYSIWYG
- User Defined Syntax Highlighting
- Auto-completion
- 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.)
- Fast Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
- Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported (Open any document by drag & drop)
- Dynamic position of Views (You can set the position of the views dynamically)
- File Status Auto-detection (After modification or deletion)
- Zoom in and zoom out
- Multi-Language environment supported
- Bookmark (Ctrl+F2)
- 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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