Screenshot of version 4.1.24 |
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| Developer(s) | Florian Balmer |
| Initial release | April 15, 2004 |
| Stable release | 4.2.25 (6 May 2011) [±] |
| Preview release | 4.2.25-rc8 (19 April 2011) [±] |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Available in | English[1] |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | BSD |
| Website | www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html |
Notepad2 is an open-source text editor for Microsoft Windows, released under a BSD software license. It is written by Florian Balmer using the Scintilla editor component, and it was first publicly released in April 2004. Balmer based Notepad2 on the principles of Microsoft Notepad: small, fast, and usable.
It features syntax highlighting for many programming languages: ASP, Assembly, C, C++, C#, Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML, Java, JavaScript, NSIS, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, Visual Basic (VB), VBScript, XHTML, and XML. It also features syntax highlighting for the following file formats: BAT, DIFF, INF, INI, REG, and configuration files (.properties).[2]
Notepad2 also has several other features:
Balmer has stated that some features will probably never be implemented in Notepad2, as they are beyond his design goal of a simple Notepad-like application. These include Notepad2's most requested feature, a multiple document interface.[3] Other missing features such as code folding, file associations and bookmarks are available through modifications, linked from the homepage. Starting with version 4.2.25-rc6, an x64 build is also offered.[2]
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