Notepad2 - simple text editor with syntax highlighting

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Notepad2 - simple text editor with syntax highlighting

by Jason Clarke Jul 29th 2007

Notepad2 is a simple and quick text editor with the added benefit of offering syntax highlighting for many popular languages. It uses the Scintilla source code editing component, making it quite powerful for its size.

It's hard to find much more to say about it; if you're looking for something that affords the simple user interface of Notepad and is nice and quick, Notepad2 appears to be a worthy successor.

Tags: Notepad, Notepad2, Scintilla, syntax highlighting, SyntaxHighlighting

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ramblingadmin said 11:04PM on 7-29-2007

I used to use Notepad2 before finding Notepad++, I found Notepad++ to be more powerful than notepad2.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Russell Heimlich said 11:10PM on 7-29-2007

Notepad2 is soo much better than the original I decided to replace it following these simple instructions -> http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2004/04/30/124093.aspx

Much better now!

ahoier said 1:07AM on 7-30-2007

It's cool...but I wish there was something that closer-resembled Windows Notepad.exe...

I.e.: no "toolbar" (or a toggle switch...on/off...), no "line numbers" (or better yet, a toggle switch - cause I dont need line numbers when Im writing a journal or something, but do when Im writing HTML).

I always find myself running back to Windows notepad.exe hehe.

Kat2 said 8:39PM on 7-30-2007

I code my website in Notepad2. I love it and carry it with me on my USB drive.

syahid ali said 6:32AM on 7-31-2007

this is a nice addition to my collection. i have a bunch of notepad replacements on my site. here they are - http://coolware.blogspot.com/2007/02/notepad-replacement-tools.html

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