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Notepad2 is a light-weight, free and open source Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting for a few commonly used languages. It’s based on the Scintilla source code editing component (http://www.scintilla.org) and works on NT-based versions of Windows.

Features:

Syntax highlighting: HTML, XML, PHP, ASP (JS, VBS), CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, C/C++, C#, Resource Script, Makefiles, Java, Visual Basic, Pascal, Assembly, SQL, Perl, Python, Configuration Files, Apache Config Files, Batch Files, Diff Files

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

What’s New in version 4.0.22 Beta 2:

Enhanced support for numerous Windows, DOS, ISO and Mac encodings

Enhanced encoding selection dialog (F9)

“Recode” (F8) to reload file with different source encoding

“Recode file as system default ANSI” (Ctrl+Shift+A)

“Recode file as system default OEM” (Ctrl+Shift+O)

“Recode 7-bit ASCII file as UTF-8″ (Shift+F8)

Option to load 7-bit ASCII files as UTF-8 (File, Encoding, Default)

Option to disable encoding tag parsing (File, Encoding, Default)

Issue warning if data can’t be converted to selected file encoding

Fix loading of (invalid) Unicode files with embedded null bytes

/e command line switch to specify file source encoding

“Insert Encoding Identifier” (Ctrl+F8)

“Tabify Indent” (Ctrl+Alt+T) and “Untabify Indent” (Ctrl+Alt+S)

“Increase Number” (Ctrl+Alt++) and “Decrease Number” (Ctrl+Alt+-)

Option to auto-reload unmodified files changed by external programs

Hotkey (Alt+F5) and auto-reset option for file change notification

Scroll find matches and jump positions away from bottom border

Enabled new Scintilla indent modes for wrapped lines

Option to set any characters as boundaries for word wrap

Allow bigger tab-/indent-widths (256) and long line limit (4096)

Dropping directories displays file open dialog

Enabled improved Scintilla Pascal lexing module (patch by Kai Liu)

Remapped “Manage Favorites” hotkey to Alt+F9

Remapped “Invert Case” hotkey to Ctrl+Alt+U

Remapped “Title Case” hotkey to Ctrl+Alt+I

Remapped “Sentence Case” hotkey to Ctrl+Alt+O

Fixed various minor bugs

Updated Scintilla library to 1.79

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