Notepad2 V4.1.24    Suggested by justin - Updated by guinness on 2 Mar 2010 677KB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (2914) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (16) - Post comment - Permalink

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 chatvache.info: An excellent (best?) notepad.
The original version is already a 100% portable notepad. Notepad configuration is saved in the registry, but you can save/load these settings.
See the author site for download, infos and Misc. Tools: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html [2006-10-05 08:51]

 Ancient Images: Windows 98 users can run Portable Notepad2 1.0.12.0. Launcher 0.4.0.0. [2007-05-23 08:36]

 ii.mull: Goes with me where ever I go. Always on my thumb drive, and I replace the regular notepad.exe with this one on any system I work on for more that one hour. I'd only wish for an "execute" this file function and I'd be unbearably happy with it. Highly recommended [2007-07-26 08:28]

 ii.mull: Please forget my last comment on executing files. Flo has already included this, and Alt-L will execute the current file but does not capture the output. A good try is made to determine the appropriate launcher for the file, and I've used VBScript, Python, Perl, AutoIt, and others successfully. Did I mention that I love this program?

-- ii [2007-07-26 08:41]

 Danny: With tabs/MDI, this scintilla-based text editor coulda been a contender. Sadly, the author doesn't like MDI (see FAQ) so I'll probably stick with wSciTE or Notepad++. Otherwise, it's an excellent text editor. =\ [2007-09-13 07:09]

 HomerSmith: By far, the best notepad replacement. This program is far better than Notepad++. It's fast, small, and has all of the features of a class editor. This a big part my thumb drive toolkit. Cheers to the author! [2007-10-30 17:54]

 Dan: Far better than the many others I've tried and now on my thumb drive. Excellent color coding except in HTML,CSS, and PHP files. A little poor in PHP *.inc files. Maybe I have the wrong type selected. It does many. Hats off to the author. [2007-12-06 20:09]

 Ben: Notepad++ is much larger than Notepad2. I would like to see comparisons between Notepad2 and Akelpad.

Why color coding if there is no MDI? [2008-04-11 13:05]

 MathGuy: Very Good! Thanks for sharing this good freeware.
I have used it as a simple programing editor.
It's small and fast. Just copy it. It will work anywhere, in any folder, you want. [2008-11-16 19:04]

 Cent: For semitransparent notepad try StNotepad: http://stforms.net/StNotepad.html

You can type on a semitransparent notepad with the text being opaque, very useful to type image text from behind. [2009-08-25 16:48]

 snickers: @Cent - StNotepad isn't freeware. [2009-08-28 12:56]

 euchoo: too bad there's no tabbed viewing [2009-08-28 15:58]

 Midas: I have used it since version 1.0 and like it very much. Unfortunately, 3 major versions later, it is still not my default notepad replacement (which BTW is win32pad) simply because it doesn't do URL detection and launching via the system API. What a shame... [2009-08-30 13:31]

 ignatius: I liked StNotepad very much, watch the video of it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fl392z1w74 [2009-10-22 04:46]

 Brooks: I was looking for a notepad with Multitouch feature, to edit text in tablet mode on muli-touch tablet PC. I found that StNotepad 2 got this feature with very common and useful getures. Now I can edit text only with fingers no need of keyboard, mouse and stylus also. [2010-01-15 06:04]

 Lyx: Wonderful simple little texteditor. If only it's support for syntax schemes were a bit more extensible (right now, you need to edit the sourcecode and recompile the app, just to add a syntax scheme). [2010-03-02 12:02]

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