Monday, January 30, 2006

Notepad2: programmer's best friend

One of the core apps for programmers, system administrators and IT staff in general must be Notepad2. It replaces Windows Notepad perfectly - it is not bloated and it is fast! Yet, it picks up on many shortcomings painfully apparent in Windows Notepad. Some of the features it adds are:
  • Customizable syntax highlighting (HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, CSS, Perl/CGI, C/C++, C#, Java, VB, Pascal, Assembler, SQL, Python, NSIS, INI, REG, INF, BAT, DIFF)
  • Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2
  • Basic regular expression search and replace
  • Useful word, line and block editing shortcuts
  • Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
  • Brace matching (Lisp fans rejoice), auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
  • Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files
This is one of those apps that should be at your fingertips wherever you go, on your desktop or on someone else's. Notepad2 unfortunately did not have a U3 version but thanks to Florian's permission I created a U3 version for you to download - and it's absolutely free. Run and download it now, it will take up less than half a megabyte on your device!

posted by Slaven at 8:48 AM

3 Comments:

Blogger Scott Allan Wallick said...

Notepad2 is a fine app, though I prefer Notepad++. And I've struggled and struggled to package it for my U3 disk without any luck. ARRRHGGHH. Anyhow, I'll settle for this for now. And thanks! Notepad2 is a fine bit of software.

6:39 PM  
Blogger pchelptech said...

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3:09 PM  
Blogger pchelptech said...

Well, I listed Notepad2 as one of my 5 top text editors on my own blog. I prefer it to Notepad++ myself, but I think that is a particularly worthy app too.

My favourite multi-purpose text editor is jEdit, but Notepad2 is my direct replacement for Notepad. I use it every single day and I love it. It is so quick it's virtually instantaneous, has handy line ending selection, line moving (essential feature) and many other line functions.

Rather than me repeating myself, why not take a quick look here, if you feel so inclined: "http://pchelpforum.blogspot.com
/2007/09/programmers-best-friend.html"

3:14 PM  

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