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Notepad2 v4.2.25

webfork on 20 Sep 2020
  • 677KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Oct 2012
  • Suggested by justin

Notepad2 is a small and fast text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages. It supports modeless find and replace dialogs, multi-line find and replace operations (using backslash expressions), optional file change notification, etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: BSD
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Notepad2.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: EditPad Lite
What's new?
  • - "Align Lines" with several options (Alt+J)
  • - "Modify Lines" supports several variables to insert numbers (Alt+M)
  • - "Sort Lines" (Alt+O) handles column sort (rectangular selection)
  • - "Sort Lines" also handles shuffle, remove duplicates and uniques
  • - "Merge Blank Lines" block command (Alt+Y)
  • - Use built-in Windows functionality for "Title Case" on Windows 7
  • - Convert between characters and hex codes (Ctrl+Alt+X, Ctrl+Alt+C)
  • - "Recode file as default encoding" (Ctrl+Shift+F)
  • - UTF-16 and UTF-16 BE formats are valid recoding options
  • - Enable case-insensitive searching for non-ASCII text
  • - Regex quantifier ? to match 0 or 1 times
  • - Regex quantifiers * and + available as non-greedy forms *? and +?
  • - Regex syntax for tagged regions simplified from \(...\) to (...)
  • - Updated HTML5 and CSS3 schemes according to current working drafts
  • - Updated Assembly scheme with x64 and SSE4 instructions
  • - Several minor updates to syntax schemes and keywords
  • - Merged caret styles into a single item and added "noblink" option
  • - /l and /l- cmd switches to control auto-reloading of modified files
  • - Ini-option to specify auto-reload timeout (see FAQ on my website)
  • - Support combination of /g and /m command line switches
  • - /o and /o- cmd switches to control "Always on top" option
  • - Copy window position to clipboard as cmd line switch (Ctrl+Shift+K)
  • - Move window to default position on current screen (Ctrl+Shift+P)
  • - Fixed Notepad .LOG feature (broken since 4.1.24)
  • - Launch command uses current file directory as working directory
  • - Don't lock any directories except the one containing Notepad2.exe
  • - Forward system MRU, taskbar and jump list behaviour to new windows
  • - Always show file name extensions (ignore Windows Explorer setting)
  • - Check availability of "Consolas" when set as default font
  • - Support a few more file variables (see FAQ on my website)
  • - Configure whether backspace should reformat indenting whitespace
  • - Transform backslashes function understands \u#### hex codes
  • - Several F2, F3 and F4 hotkeys work in find and replace dialogs
  • - Removed "Select Up" and "Select Down" buttons from find dialog
  • - Ini-options to block suppression of notification messages
  • - Simplified appearance of word wrap settings dialog
  • - Remapped "Unescape C Special Chars" to Ctrl+Alt+R (fix duplicate)
  • - Reloading keeps scrolling position more unerringly with word wrap
  • - Jumps with /g switch locate position more accurately with word wrap
  • - Various internal optimizations and fixes
  • - Improved look of disabled toolbar buttons on Windows XP and above
  • - Improved overall look of toolbar buttons on Windows 2k
  • - Lower frequency of NFS access delays by caching file display names
  • - Improved compatibility with Windows 7
  • - Released x64 build of Notepad2.exe
  • - Updated Scintilla library to 2.24

Full changelog is at http://www.flos-freeware.ch/doc/Notepad2.txt.
Latest comments
outskirter on 2011-12-08 04:07

I dropped Notepad++ in favor of this one. Notepad++ is rapidly turning into bloatware. Notepad2 does not need plugins for its features, and so it is faster and much more compact, while still full of useful features.

Someone mentioned AkelPad. Some of its plugins don't work too well, and the syntax highlighting of HTML files isn't nearly as good as that of Notepad2.

Midas on 2012-07-01 01:24

There's now a x64 build of Notepad2. But can someone please explain to me how to get the "Open shell links" feature, so strings like www.someurl.com or adress@server.net will launch when clicked in Notepad2?

domestique on 2013-10-25 00:27

I've tried them all over the years, including the modded version, but keep coming back to Flo's original. Small; fast; no distractions. Other notepad replacements often have too many options. The only thing I would add is a tabbed interface, but it's not a deal-breaker. Using the built-in Favourites and coupled with Flo's own metapath (http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1701), it's almost perfect for the way I work.

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Notepad++ v8.6.4 Updated

Special on 19 Feb 2024
  • 16MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 19 Feb 2024
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Notepad++ is a tabbed source code editor and Notepad replacement with a customizable interface. Includes source code "folding", allowing users to quickly reduce and expand sections of code to see the overall document. In addition, it features multi-language syntax highlighting, auto-completion, Perl-compatible regular expression search/replace, macro recording and playback, document map etc.

A host of additional functionality is available via the plugins admin view, including tools for file analysis, programming languages, viewers, calculations, user interface and many more.

Alternatively, Notepad++ Portable and the outdated X-Notepad++ clean the local folder.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the "Portable" ZIP or 7z package according to your OS and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete unnecessary localization files
  3. Launch notepad++.exe
Similar/alternative apps: AkelPad, PSPad, EditPad Lite
What's new? Changelog at: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/.
Latest comments
Pendrive on 2021-12-08 16:48

Where is this "v8.1.9.3"?

PAFuser on 2022-01-19 09:26

8.2 does not seem to have sessions check box under general tab, and session does not seem to load or save. Any comments?

Mike.S.G. on 2022-01-20 09:43

@PAFuser

Things have changed a bit, can you make something happen by tweaking settings in Backup & Multi Instance... looking at the changelog some settings have been tweaked regarding Sessions???

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Textosaurus v0.9.13

billon on 16 Dec 2019
  • 40MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 16 Dec 2019
  • Suggested by skunkos

Textosaurus (formerly Textilosaurus) is a Scintilla-based text editor with a configurable, tabbed interface and syntax highlighting. The program includes uploaders, tools for scripting, XML, JSON, MIME and supports a wide variety of text encoding.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: msvcp140.dll, vcruntime140.dll (runtime installer included)
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the 7z package and extract (using a program like PeaExtractor) to a folder of your choice. Launch textosaurus.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Notepad++
What's new? See:
https://github.com/martinrotter/textosaurus/releases
Latest comments
skunkos on 2018-01-08 04:59

Well, actually, the files from C++ runtime are really, there. Your missing DLLs api-ms-win-crt-runtime-* are indirect system dependencies which are not directly referenced by Textilosaurus binary, it seems these files can be installed with installing this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2999226/update-for-universal-c-runtime-in-windows

So it seems that your operating system is not fully up-to-date. These DLLs cannot be re-distributed with textilosaurus.exe, the only way for me could be to package runtime installers into Textilosaurus installer, but that is not really good because some users install portable Textilosaurus from zip package instead, thus, this is not a solution for them.

What do you think? I thought I could use different toolchain (mingw) to build the app for windows, but unfortunately, it is only available for x86 platform which is bad, since I prefer to deploy x64 binaries.

zorro on 2018-01-08 05:40

Well, you're right - my system is not up to date and I am not able to install the update, because my Win 8.1 is one of those that refused to install the big ("8.2") update. No problem, for most other users Textilosaurus will work fine.

smaragdus on 2018-04-19 18:08

I am glad that the developer switched to a better versioning scheme.

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VaultPad v1.2

webfork on 2 Nov 2016
  • 988KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Dec 2014
  • Suggested by kitsaros

VaultPad is a simple text and file encryptor. The program can take text, attachments, or both to create an easy-to-share XML file for storage or sharing.

The program uses AES cipher (symmetric-key pairs) to encrypt local messages and RSA/AES cipher (public/private key pairs) for shared messages. A SHA-512 cipher is used to hash passwords, so they aren't stored in the application itself. A MD5 algorithm is used to check embedded files for corruption. VaultPad will handle third party public keys to be able to encrypt/decrypt their files directly.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch VaultPad.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Cryptnote
What's new? Added:
  • Undo/Redo actions.
  • Smaller application.
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