

Notepad3
Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight text editor with syntax highlighting for programming jobs. Auto-completion, Multi-language, Dark mode more.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
- Distraction-free
Features
- Support for Unicode
- Small-footprint
- Multiple languages
- Search and Replace
- Syntax Highlighting
- Portable
- Support for regular expressions
- No registration required
- Works Offline
- Ad-free
- No Tracking
- Dark Mode
- Full-Text Search
- Support for Right-to-Left
- Support for MarkDown
- Autocompletion
Tags
- rtl-encoding
- notepad
Notepad3 News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
OrdinaryPerson added Notepad3 as alternative to Visual Code Space- Ugotsta added Notepad3 as alternative to Fresh editor
MCQ333 added Notepad3 as alternative to PlainPad and Light Notepad
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What is Notepad3?
Notepad3 is a lightweight text editor with the many features: code folding, bracket matching, automatic indentation, word auto-completion, convert character encoding between various formats (ASCII, UTF-8, and UTF-16), newline format conversion (between DOS (CR/LF), Unix (LF), and Macintosh (CR) formats), multiple undo or redo, bookmarks, and regular expression-based find and replace. Multi-language, dark mode and color preview many features have been added. Custom
grepWin is also bundled.
Although the Windows operating system was updated significantly over the past years. However, the default Windows Windows Notepad has very simply features since the 1980s. If you need a text editor for simple programming tasks, using the vanilla Windows Notepad just does not cut it. Enter Notepad3! Scintilla-based
Notepad2, its successor
Notepad2-mod, its successor Notepad3.
Therefore, we created Notepad3 with all the features that the default Windows Notepad currently lacks. Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting. It has a small memory footprint, but is powerful enough to handle most programming jobs.
Previously we mentioned that Notepad3 can handle almost any programming job and we are not lying. Just take a look at the list of supported programming languages below and spot your favorite.
Syntax highlighting support for over 50 languages: ASP, assembly language, AutoHotkey, AutoIt3, AviSynth, Bash, BAT, C, C++, C#, CMake, CoffeeScript, Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), DIFF, HTML, INF, INI, Inno Setup, Java, JavaScript, LaTeX, Lua, Markdown, NSIS, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, REG, Ruby, SQL, Tcl, Visual Basic (VB), VBScript, VHDL scripts, XHTML, XML, YAML, D Source Script, Go Source Script, JSON, Makefiles, MATLAB, Nim Source Code, Power Shell Script, Resource Script, Shell Script, R, S, S-Plus, Kotlin, Windows Registry files, configuration files, and improved support for NFO ANSI art.











Comments and Reviews
It's so fantastic, Fast & Fast
After exploring Notepads and various other alternatives, I was on the lookout for a straightforward, lightweight application that offered more features than Notepad but avoided the excessive complexity of similar notepad apps. My primary goal was to edit .txt files rather than engage in tasks like programming, markup, or HTML. This app perfectly meets my requirements, balancing simplicity and functionality. Kudos to the developers for crafting such an efficient and well-designed tool.
its good alternative
With around 6000 lines it hangs the system. Can't search and replace.
No Linux support No auto save
The successor to Notepad2-mod in 2023, which has not been updated since 2017
Supports RTL languages and R/S script syntax highlighting out of the box