Notepad2 Text Editor

[Tony Cheroke]

<http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html>

Notepad2 version 1.0.01

<quote>
Yet another Notepad replacement...

What's this?

The original Notepad shipped with Windows is
probably the handiest program of all times, small,
fast, without frills! Notepad2 tries to follow this
principle, it's a small, fast and free text editor
with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common
languages.

Features
• Customizable syntax highlighting:
• • HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, CSS, Perl/CGI
• • C/C++, C#, Java, VB, Pascal, Assembler, SQL
• • 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, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
• Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files
• Open shell links
• Mostly adjustable

More Information

Additional information about Notepad2 features,
installation and uninstallation can be found in the
Notepad2 readme file: Notepad2.txt.
</quote>

I've tried it and it's quite useful. The only drawback that I see is
that it creates quite a few registry entries (all the syntax
highlighting data, plus window position, size, etc.). But, the
readme file in the download zip gives instructions on how to delete
them easily. It doesn't require an install.

HTH,
Tony

 

[benny]

<http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html>

Notepad2 version 1.0.01

More interesting stuff there.

benny

 

[omega]

<http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html>

Notepad2 version 1.0.01

This one is new. It was only a couple of months ago I last visited this
author's site, and at that time, this project had not yet manifested.

it's a small, fast and free text editor

Note: It is SDI. Only one open document per instance.

Size is 524k, uncompressed.

This is distributed in its actual size. About 2/3 eds pretend to be smaller,
shipping out after being crunched with an exe compressor. Had the author
chosen to do that on this one, then the size would come out under 250k.

• Customizable syntax highlighting:
• • HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, CSS, Perl/CGI
• • C/C++, C#, Java, VB, Pascal, Assembler, SQL
• • INI, REG, INF, BAT, DIFF

Customizable as far as colors only, so far as I can tell. Not other
syntax scheme customizations; not, for example, choosing your comment
characters, keywords, etc.

• 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

Some good functionality. Now, for what I've learned to become wary about
when checking out those editors that support syntax highlighting. It's
the lack of wordwrap. Relief: Green light for NP2. it supports wordwrap.

Additional information about Notepad2 features

This of interest:

Notepad2 is based on the Scintilla source code editing component:
http://www.scintilla.org

Hmm. Scite, the primary in my attention based on Scintilla, can be talked
into using a tabbed interface. And others based on Scintilla also do tabs,
eg Programmer's Notepad and Anyedit. So this developer should be able to
make that same choice with Notepad2. Single doc works out fine in some
cases, but I think that most would prefer to use an editor like this with
multiple docs, in tabs.

I've tried it and it's quite useful. The only drawback that I see is
that it creates quite a few registry entries (all the syntax
highlighting data, plus window position, size, etc.).

I've noticed how big the HKCU section can become when one has installed a
lot of editors that keep their syntax highlighting schemes in the registry,
instead of external files. I recall one day where my HKCU grew 2mb within
a period of an hour, after I'd launched a number of such editors.

And, next day, I exported and deleted those entries, 2mb lighter. (My
registry is on a bulimia diet plan.)

But, the readme file in the download zip gives instructions on how to delete
them easily. It doesn't require an install.

Easy to export/delete/re-merge. Even left in, entries in HKCU are benign;
it's just the program's own settings, self-contained. It's those progs that
write elsewhere to the registry, creating vanity filetype keys, and so
forth, that are the problem and annoyance. And then too, there are those
that register a bunch of personal DLLs & OCXs and thereby create serious
clutter in central registry sections.

Back to Flo's Notepad2. Thanks for bringing in the news. I pay routine
attention to that author, but had not known until today that they'd [is
Flo male or female?] created a new gift for freeware fans.