Thursday, October 16, 2008

Notepad++ : Free Source Code Editor

Notepad++ is a free source editor that supports several languages (C, C++, HTML, ASP, Java, Pascal, CSS and more) with the syntax highlighting and syntax folding, running in the MS Windows environment. It is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and is under the GPL Licence. It's based on Scintilla, which is a component for source code editing.

Notepad++ is portable and it supports tabs, syntax highlighting, drag and drop, macro recording, regular expression search and replace, and auto-completion. It allows users to edit 2 different documents at the same time, and even to edit the same document in 2 different views when you are in clone mode. It also gives the extra functionality to define a user's own language for the syntax folding and syntax highlighting.


Plugins are also supported by Notepad++. Some of the most used plugins are; Light Explorer that adds a small file browser pane, FTP Synchronize automatically sends updates to server with changes saved to a local copy, Quick Text which is a snippet management tool, and Secure Pad that adds encryption and decryption functionalities.

All of the explained and nonexplained features for Notepad++ are:
  • Auto-completion
  • Multi-Document
  • WYSIWYG
  • User Defined Syntax Highlighting
  • Bookmark
  • Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
  • Multi-View
  • Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
  • Macro recording and playback
  • Regular Expression Search/Replace
  • File Status Auto-detection
  • Zoom in and zoom out
  • Full Drag & Drop supported
  • Dynamic position of Views
  • Multi-Language environment

Download Link:
Check out the latest version and download Notepad++.

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