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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: December 05, 2009
- Total Downloads: 617,112
- Downloads last week: 46
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 205 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Notepad 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 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 and NoteTab Light probably will depend as much on layout as anything else. Although, forgive the pun, notably Notepad 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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Version: Notepad++ 5.6.1
"Best All-Around Default-Program Editor for Text Files"
Pros: syntax highlighting for most languages, text tools like word count and capitilization modifiation, extensible & customizable, tabs are detachable & support middle-click behavior
Cons: Settings somewhat cryptic
Summary: I install this right after Windows, & never look back. Text editing the way it should be
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Version: Notepad++ 5.6.1
"Really great language sensitive editor"
Pros: Every language I used it on worked great.
Cons: I experienced any yet.
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