Notepad2 4.2.25

Light-weight, free and open source Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting for a few commonly used languages.

It's based on the Scintilla source code editing component and works on NT-based versions of Windows. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry.

Features:

• Syntax highlighting: HTML, XML, PHP, ASP (JS, VBS), CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, C/C++, C#, Resource Script, Makefiles, Java, Visual Basic, Pascal, Assembly, SQL, Perl, Python, Configuration Files, Apache Config Files, Batch Files, Diff Files
• 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, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
• Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files
• Open shell links
• Mostly adjustable

What's New:

• No ini-file is created by default (save settings with F7, once)
• "Move Up" and "Move Down" keep selection and work with blocks
• Set cursor to start (Ctrl+,) or end of text selection (Ctrl+.)
• "URL Encode" (Ctrl+Shift+E) and "URL Decode" (Ctrl+Shift+R)
• "Escape" (Ctrl+Alt+E) and "Unescape C Special Chars" (Ctrl+Alt+U)
• "Sort Lines" with several options (Alt+O)
• "Pad With Spaces" block command (Alt+B)
• "Replace Next" assigned to hotkey (F4)
• Auto strip trailing blanks option (File, Line Endings, Default)
• Remapped "Transparent Mode" hotkey to Ctrl+0
• Simple XML detection for files without extensions
• Simple language detection for cgi and fcgi files
• Reload file without file variable parsing (Alt+F8)
• Enabled better styling of C/C++ preprocessor elements
• Recent files and search strings merged with existing items on save
• Paste board mode ignores immediately repeated copy actions
• Command line switch + to accept multiple files (quoted spaces)
• Command line switch * to accept single file argument (no quotes)
• Option to set default command line mode (single or multiple files)
• Command line switches to set file encoding and line ending mode
• More /p command line switches (see "Command Line Switches" below)
• /r command line switch to reuse existing window
• /ns and /rs command line switches to enable single file instance
• Renamed /t command line switch to /d (select default text scheme)
• /t command line switch to set window title
• Set window title to excerpt of current text selection (Ctrl+9)
• Save relative pathnames for recent files (ini-option to disable)
• Save relative directories for "Open with..." and "Favorites"
• "Open with..." no longer sends short pathnames to external programs
• External commands use current file directory as working directory
• Remember "Save Copy" location until exit
• Require only single click to restore window from tray icon
• "Reuse Window" option timeout improves opening multiple files
• Replaced "Find Up" option with "Find Previous" button in dialogs
• "Find Wrap" notification dialogs provide "Cancel" button
• Option to suppress replace count notifications
• Find and replace dialogs provide new system menu commands
• Dialog boxes use correct theme fonts on Vista
• Patches to default styles, file types and auto-detection by Kai Liu
• Incorporated base x64 source code compatibility patch
• Fixed some problems with relative ini-file locations
• Fixed some minor file variable problems
• Fixed some encoding detection issues
• Fixed some find and replace problems
• Fixed several memory leaks when saving files
• Fixed several memory leaks for editing operations
• Reduced size of Notepad2.exe program file