Notepad2 4.0.22-beta1

4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (221 votes)

BETA (June 25, 2009)

Windows 2000/9x/XP / Open Source / 10,646 downloads

Notepad2 is another small, fast notepad replacement with some unusual features. It includes zoom, rectangular selection, regular expressions, and more.

Reviews of Notepad2

  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    Nighted

    Reviewing 4.0.22-beta1 (Jun 26, 2009)

    New in Version 4.0.22-beta1 (released June 25, 2009)

    - 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
    - Scroll find matches and jump positions away from bottom border
    - Allow bigger tab-/indent-widths (256) and long line limit (4096)
    - Dropping directories displays file open dialog
    - Enabled improved Scintilla Pascal lexeing 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 1.78

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    dhry

    Reviewing 4.0.22-beta1 (Jun 25, 2009)

    Awesome stuff. Standing by for the code-folding build.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    j02hn

    Reviewing 3.1.21 RC2 (Mar 2, 2009)

    It looks great!
    I use Tiny Pad however, it's really light and saves me the need to "save" everytime I write soemthing new; plus it looks awesome
    You guys might wanna check it out here http://tinypad.info

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    Nighted

    Reviewing 3.1.21 RC2 (Feb 25, 2009)

    YES YES YES!!!! Line sorting! Woot!!!! :)

    New in Version 3.1.21-rc3 (released February 25, 2009)

    - No ini-file is created by default (save settings with F7, once)
    - "Move Up" and "Move Down" keep selection and work with blocks
    - Set cursor to start (Ctrl+,) or end of text selection (Ctrl+.)
    - "URL Encode" (Ctrl+Shift+E) and "URL Decode" (Ctrl+Shift+R)
    - "Escape" (Ctrl+Alt+E) and "Unescape C Special Chars" (Ctrl+Alt+U)
    - "Sort Lines" with several options (Alt+O)
    - "Replace Next" assigned to hotkey (F4)
    - Auto strip trailing blanks option (File, Line Endings, Default)
    - Remapped "Transparent Mode" hotkey to Ctrl+0
    - Simple XML detection for files without extensions
    - Simple language detection for cgi and fcgi files
    - Reload file without file variable parsing (Alt+F8)
    - Enabled better styling of C/C++ preprocessor elements
    - Recent files and search strings merged with existing items on save
    - Paste board mode ignores immediately repeated copy actions
    - Command line switch + to accept multiple files (quoted spaces)
    - Command line switch - to accept single file argument (no quotes)
    - Option to set default command line mode (single or multiple files)
    - Command line switches to set file encoding and line ending mode
    - More /p command line switches (see "Command Line Switches" below)
    - /r command line switch to reuse existing window
    - /ns and /rs command line switches to enable single file instance
    - Renamed /t command line switch to /d (select default text scheme)
    - /t command line switch to set window title
    - Set window title to excerpt of current text selection (Ctrl+9)
    - External commands use current file directory as working directory
    - Remember "Save Copy" location until exit
    - Require only single click to restore window from tray icon
    - "Reuse Window" option timeout improves opening multiple files
    - Replaced "Find Up" option with "Find Previous" button in dialogs
    - Find and replace dialogs provide new system menu commands
    - Dialog boxes use correct theme fonts on Vista
    - Incorporated base x64 source code compatibility patch
    - Fixed some problems with relative ini-file locations
    - Fixed some minor file variable problems
    - Fixed some encoding detection issues
    - Fixed some find and replace problems
    - Fixed several memory leaks when saving files
    - Fixed several memory leaks for editing operations
    - Reduced size of Notepad2.exe program file

  5. 4 out of 5 stars
    dkratter

    Reviewing 3.1.21 RC2 (Feb 24, 2009)

    An excellent free Notepad replacement. It is one of the first things I install on a new box. I do, however, wish it was an MDI (tabs) application instead of an SDI (separate windows) application, but the author has stated he does not intend to support that.

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