Notepad++ – free opensource editor & notepad replacement

Notepad++ is yet another free opensource tool of great use. As you would have guessed from the name, Notepad++ is a source code editor for most of the famous and command programming languages and a genuine replacement for Notepad in Windows.

Notepad++ is fast and uses less power which is always good for the environment.

Notepad++ supports C,C++, C#, Java, PHP, XML, HTML, CSS, makefile, ASCII art (.nfo), doxygen, ini file, batch file, Javascript, ASP, VB/VBS, SQL, Objective-C, RC resource file, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, TeX, TCL, Assembler, Ruby, Lisp, Scheme, Properties, Diff, Smalltalk, Postscript, VHDL, Ada, Caml, AutoIt, KiXtart, Matlab, Verilog, Haskell, InnoSetup, CMake, YAML, COBOL, D, R, PowerShell, Gui4Cli

Features include

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding with support for user defined Syntax highlighting

WYSIWYG support to print your code in colour

Auto-completion, Drag n Drop support, Zoom IN/OUT

Multi-Document and Multi-View with Dynamic position of views

Regular Expression Search/Replace supported

File Status Auto-detection

Multi-Language environment supported

Bookmark

Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting

Macro recording and playback

Have a look at the screenshots here at the project homepage (saved me a lot of time here) which displays the array of features in Notepad++.

Notepad++ is a must have tool for everyone. Click here to download Notepad++. For themes, skins, plugins etc, click here.