Better Notepad

I write a lot of different things, from text for my blog, to content for my website to various kinds of code and script. For a long time I simply used notepad, it was most of what I needed, and it did the job.

A while back, I discovered a very good alternative. It’s called Notepad++, and can be seen as a heavily beefed up version of Notepad. Like Notepad, it simply works, but unlike notepad, it has syntax highlighting and folding, and a sidebar explorer to mention only a few of the features.. Here’s what it looks like:

Published under the GNU General Public Licence (GNU-GPL), it is lightweight, simple to use, and very powerful. In other words, it’s just the tool I’ve been looking for for years.

The full list of features goes as follows:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document
• Multi-View
• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
• Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported
• Dynamic position of Views
• File Status Auto-detection
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Multi-Language environment supported
• Bookmark
• Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
• Macro recording and playback

If you want to give it a try, you can find it here.