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Notepad2 v4.2.25

webfork on 20 Sep 2020
  • 677KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Oct 2012
  • Suggested by justin

Notepad2 is a small and fast text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages. It supports modeless find and replace dialogs, multi-line find and replace operations (using backslash expressions), optional file change notification, etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: BSD
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Notepad2.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: EditPad Lite
What's new?
  • - "Align Lines" with several options (Alt+J)
  • - "Modify Lines" supports several variables to insert numbers (Alt+M)
  • - "Sort Lines" (Alt+O) handles column sort (rectangular selection)
  • - "Sort Lines" also handles shuffle, remove duplicates and uniques
  • - "Merge Blank Lines" block command (Alt+Y)
  • - Use built-in Windows functionality for "Title Case" on Windows 7
  • - Convert between characters and hex codes (Ctrl+Alt+X, Ctrl+Alt+C)
  • - "Recode file as default encoding" (Ctrl+Shift+F)
  • - UTF-16 and UTF-16 BE formats are valid recoding options
  • - Enable case-insensitive searching for non-ASCII text
  • - Regex quantifier ? to match 0 or 1 times
  • - Regex quantifiers * and + available as non-greedy forms *? and +?
  • - Regex syntax for tagged regions simplified from \(...\) to (...)
  • - Updated HTML5 and CSS3 schemes according to current working drafts
  • - Updated Assembly scheme with x64 and SSE4 instructions
  • - Several minor updates to syntax schemes and keywords
  • - Merged caret styles into a single item and added "noblink" option
  • - /l and /l- cmd switches to control auto-reloading of modified files
  • - Ini-option to specify auto-reload timeout (see FAQ on my website)
  • - Support combination of /g and /m command line switches
  • - /o and /o- cmd switches to control "Always on top" option
  • - Copy window position to clipboard as cmd line switch (Ctrl+Shift+K)
  • - Move window to default position on current screen (Ctrl+Shift+P)
  • - Fixed Notepad .LOG feature (broken since 4.1.24)
  • - Launch command uses current file directory as working directory
  • - Don't lock any directories except the one containing Notepad2.exe
  • - Forward system MRU, taskbar and jump list behaviour to new windows
  • - Always show file name extensions (ignore Windows Explorer setting)
  • - Check availability of "Consolas" when set as default font
  • - Support a few more file variables (see FAQ on my website)
  • - Configure whether backspace should reformat indenting whitespace
  • - Transform backslashes function understands \u#### hex codes
  • - Several F2, F3 and F4 hotkeys work in find and replace dialogs
  • - Removed "Select Up" and "Select Down" buttons from find dialog
  • - Ini-options to block suppression of notification messages
  • - Simplified appearance of word wrap settings dialog
  • - Remapped "Unescape C Special Chars" to Ctrl+Alt+R (fix duplicate)
  • - Reloading keeps scrolling position more unerringly with word wrap
  • - Jumps with /g switch locate position more accurately with word wrap
  • - Various internal optimizations and fixes
  • - Improved look of disabled toolbar buttons on Windows XP and above
  • - Improved overall look of toolbar buttons on Windows 2k
  • - Lower frequency of NFS access delays by caching file display names
  • - Improved compatibility with Windows 7
  • - Released x64 build of Notepad2.exe
  • - Updated Scintilla library to 2.24

Full changelog is at http://www.flos-freeware.ch/doc/Notepad2.txt.
Latest comments
outskirter on 2011-12-08 04:07

I dropped Notepad++ in favor of this one. Notepad++ is rapidly turning into bloatware. Notepad2 does not need plugins for its features, and so it is faster and much more compact, while still full of useful features.

Someone mentioned AkelPad. Some of its plugins don't work too well, and the syntax highlighting of HTML files isn't nearly as good as that of Notepad2.

Midas on 2012-07-01 01:24

There's now a x64 build of Notepad2. But can someone please explain to me how to get the "Open shell links" feature, so strings like www.someurl.com or adress@server.net will launch when clicked in Notepad2?

domestique on 2013-10-25 00:27

I've tried them all over the years, including the modded version, but keep coming back to Flo's original. Small; fast; no distractions. Other notepad replacements often have too many options. The only thing I would add is a tabbed interface, but it's not a deal-breaker. Using the built-in Favourites and coupled with Flo's own metapath (http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1701), it's almost perfect for the way I work.

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