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Notepad2

Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Created by Florian Balmer

Free Open Source
Windows
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Discontinued

Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Simple as possible, but yet powerful. Has full Unicode support. Can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry.

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Discontinued notepad text-editor

Notepad2 was added by Killy in Mar 2009 and the latest update was made in Aug 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2019. It's possible to update the information on Notepad2 or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Notepad2 is discontinued. Find alternatives in the list below or click here for more info

The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2.25, released on October 28, 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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Notepad2 Comments

Good soft

Comment by jpjpjjp

about Notepad2 · Sep 2015 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

A Lightweight soft,the best choice to Instead of the windows notepad

This soft is not suitable for those programmers or other coders.

If you need more powerful,then you could select notepad++

Anyway,its also a good good software

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Alphabetizing

Comment by TBayAreaPat

about Notepad2 · Jan 2012 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

It's great that the program has an alphabetizing/sort option. I only wish it could be found without needing to consult the web.

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Comment by 365

about Notepad2 · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Loads very fast as the original, but its more powerful!
Very nice one!

Cant forget it! ?

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Comment by rocketmonkeys

about Notepad2 · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Incredibly small & fast, easily configurable with tons of options. Very easy to make a drop-in replacement for notepad with a ton more functionality, but still really simple. I like it.

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