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Notepad 4

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A lightweight Scintilla based text editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin matepath.

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Platforms

  • Windows
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Distraction-free
  3.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Portable
  2.  Full-Text Search
  3.  Syntax Highlighting
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Autocompletion
  6.  No Tracking
  7.  Ad-free
  8.  Support for MarkDown
  9.  Works Offline
  10.  Support for regular expressions
  11.  Multiple languages
  12.  Small-footprint
  13.  Search and Replace
  14.  Support for Unicode

 Tags

  • scintilla
  • metapath
  • notepad2-mod
  • notepad4
  • noteoad2
  • arm64
  • matepath

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Notepad 4 information

  • Developed by

    Zufu Liu

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

  •  3,938 Stars
  •  252 Forks
  •  173 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jul 7, 2025 
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What is Notepad 4?

Notepad4 (Notepad2x2, Notepad2++) is a light-weight Scintilla based text editor for Windows with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, it's based on (rewritten in modern C++) Florian's Notepad2 and XhmikosR's Notepad2-mod. matepath is a file browser plugin and based on (rewritten in modern C++) Florian's metapath.

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