Notepad2
Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Windows 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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
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- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2.25, released on October 28, 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website. You can also take a look at this active fork: https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Distraction-free
Features
- Works Offline
- Ad-free
- Syntax Highlighting
- No Tracking
- Portable
- No registration required
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Notepad2 News & Activities
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What is Notepad2?
Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight 
Windows 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. Open Source license. People have loved Notepad2 for a long time.
The original Notepad2 was developed by Florian Balmer in 2004. Scintilla is used as the base text editor. It was then discontinued in 2012. So several forks were born in Notepad2, including 
Notepad2-mod (now abandoned), 
Notepad2e and 
Notepad3, as well as continuation under original name by Zufu Liu.
Notepad2 information
Developed by
Florian Balmer Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Alternatives
118 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
I've known it since my first PC back in 2006. Someone I knew from the school showed it to me. I always replaced the original Notepad in Windows with this one. I have Notepad3 which highlights AutoHotKey and AutoIt now. If it satisfies me that much, I will delete Notepad2 files and won't use it anymore.
Extremely fast, many features, code highlight, color themmes
Notepad2 has been forked and there are several versions that add additional functionality. Additionally, there is a Notepad3 version which is quite better, and a Notepad4 as well. Use your Google dirty fingers and find some of these alternates and be glad that you did.
I use Notepad2 since ~10 years ago. Florian hasn't updated it recently, I'm on 4.2.25 now, on a Win 7 laptop. Installs easily and automatically replaces M$'s useless notepad. Lots of nice functionality like block copy & paste, sorting (ascending / descending, text / numeric, merge duplicates / remove duplicates / remove unique lines), prefix / suffix lines, et cetera. Cheers to you Florian! Surely possible to find similar functionality in other software, but with the ones I tested at the time this was the outstanding candidate and I haven't had any reason to look for an alternative.
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
I tried four text editors (AkelPad, TextPad, LTFViewer and Notepad2), each of which claimed to support large text files. Two of them couldn't open my file at all. Of the two that could open it, one was so slow at searching for text strings that I found the entire application unusable (because searching through this 1.4G file is a crucial requirement for me)
NotePad2 was the only one could open my 1.4G file and search through it quickly. I love it!
[Edited by rmbjr60, February 03]
It is easy to make bulleted lists that wrap properly while keeping the file in plain text mode.
[Edited by karlnordstrom, November 08]