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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7/NT
- Date added: July 05, 2010
- Total Downloads: 945,481
- Downloads last week: 8,757
- Product Ranking: #3 in Coding Utilities
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 262 votes
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Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on February 07, 2008
Notepad Plus Plus is a Notepad replacement with an eye toward programmers, although it should also appeal to the casual user who wants a cross between Notepad and WordPad. Notepad Plus Plus has some noticeable differences from WordPad. Support for tabs is key, letting users manage different documents simultaneously. Line-numbering is important, too, a feature that nobody mucking about in C should be without.
The interface is much simpler compared with some of its competitors. A familiar row of icons with their mouse-over labels sits at the top, and one row of tabs is just below that. The rest of the screen is made of nothing but pure white space. All the coding tools live in the menu bar, with some represented on the toolbar. Users can compile and run macros, convert text to Hex, submit directly to W3C for validation, launch in Firefox and IE, and more. There's also a built-in spell-checker.
Choosing between Notepad Plus Plus and NoteTab Light probably will depend as much on layout as anything else. Although, forgive the pun, notably Notepad Plus Plus can not autoreplace Notepad, it's still an excellent Notepad replacement.
Publisher's description
From Don HO:Notepad++ is a free (under the GPL license) source code editor which supports several programming languages under Windows environment. It's also a lightweight replacement of Notepad. The supported languages by Notepad++ are: C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC file, makefile, nfo, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, Unix Shell Script, Fortran, NSIS and Flash action script. Notepad++ main features are: Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding, User Language Define System, Regular Expression Search, WYSIWYG (If you have a color printer, print your source code in color), Unicode support, Full drag-and-drop supported, Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting, 2 edits and synchronized view of the same document, User Language Define System.
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User reviews
- All versions: 4.5 starsout of 262 votes
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- Current version: 4.5 starsout of 19 votes
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5 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Notepad++ 5.7
"Solid editor, better than a lot of paid applications"
Pros: Easy to use, allows ftp connections, color coding support for a wide variety of programming languages
Cons: No cons except that I had to dig around a little to find how to add an ftp connection.
Other than that it is perfection.
I don't understand why anyone would give a bad review to this product given the fact that it is free.Summary: For us programmers who can't afford Zend Studio or Visual Studio on our personal machines, this is a great program to use for quick code changes and grunt work where you don't need Intellisense and debugging support.
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5 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Notepad++ 5.7
"great for perl"
Pros: Supports syntax coloration of numerous languages, perl being one of them.
Cons: none that I can think of
Summary: Really mature product, especially for free. Great features, too many to enumerate here, but my favorite feature is its perl syntax coloration.
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3 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Notepad++ 5.7
"Is significantly slower than previous versions"
Pros: good product to replace regular notepad
Cons: Takes a long time to appear when clicking on a .txt file
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3 stars
Version: Notepad++ 5.7
"Slower than ever before but still powerful"
Pros: Great add-ins, simple and clear interface, many supported languages, FREE, small in size, customizable appearance, and more
Cons: It takes long time and occupies a lot of system resources to handle large files (from 10MB). Start-up is no longer fast as previous versions. Need to do more on tabs.
Summary: Pros and Cons have told almost everything I'd like to say about this program. I just want to conclude that this is a valuable and should-have product.
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4 stars
Version: Notepad++ 5.7
"It is a great tool, however it could be better!"
Pros: The ability to work with text with no problems.
Cons: The lack of the ability to integrate it with my free pascal compiler and run code on the fly.
Summary: I like it for it capabilities and I have a dislike of the fact that I must run my go external of it to run my code after compile.
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5 stars
Version: Notepad++ 5.7
"fast and simple"
Pros: works well
Cons: I doin't have any complaints
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4 stars
Version: Notepad++ 5.7
"Great software for developers"
Pros: It has a huge directory of different scripting languages and loads of features to help make your life easier especially when coding complicated or large pages/programs.
It also has a great interface that took me 5 minutes to learn.Cons: Before changing it to your default text editor, consider that it isn't so great as just a 'text editor' (i.e. for editing text) but is much better for developers.
Summary: A great piece of software with an intuitive interface that really suits any developers needs. The only problem I perceive with this program is that it isn't so great at just writing plain old text.
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5 stars
Version: Notepad++ 5.7
"Great software. I recommend it to all my students."
Pros: The plethora of languages possible.
Cons: Not much to dislike.
Summary: I have been in computers for 43 years and this is one of the most usaeable products I have seen, especially for us who started with punch cards.
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4 stars
Version: Notepad++ 5.7
"Very useful tool."
Pros: Like the mutiple buffers, color highlighting, & color printout.
Cons: Prefer layout of structure used by XML Notepad 2007 which allows easier changes to element, attribute, & etc. for value changes.
Summary: Has been very helpful as a developement tool.
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5 stars
Version: Notepad++ 5.7
"Great text Editor"
Pros: Excellent text editor, with great interface and endless possibilities to edit and customize.
Cons: some updates do not come easy and program still asking about new updates
Summary: Great text editor and excellent for programmers in many languages.
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