Programmers Notepad 2.0.7.667 Beta

4.8 out of 5 stars 4.8 (25 votes)

BETA (April 17, 2007)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 5,848 downloads

Programmers Notepad uses a powerful text-editing engine which allows it to color-code your code like all the good IDEs. Your code, in any one of a number of languages, will all be displayed in customizable colors. Furthermore, it has powerful search and replace functionality allowing the use of regular expressions.

  • Publisher

    Echo Software

  • Homepage

    Programmers Notepad

  • Latest Changes

    - Minor master scheme changes

    - Allows you to set scheme properties for all languages in one place (global styles)

    - Scheme changes: Hypertext->HTML, PHP added, PHP Script added

    - New extension points for OnBeforeSave and OnAfterLoad

    - Ctags tag provider is now an extension, custom tagger plugin format removed

    - Extension discovery method: run "pn -findexts"

Reviews of Programmers Notepad

  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    MissingIntellect

    Reviewing 2.0.5.48 (Mar 1, 2005)

    I've searched far and wide for a good editor, and Programmers Notepad is by far the best I've found. It has a very clean, uncluttered interface ,and even though version 2 is under heavy development, I've found it quite stable. At the moment it's missing a few of the advanced features that you might find in other editors, but they are planned features, e.g. hex editing.

  2. 3 out of 5 stars
    spiked

    Reviewing 2.0.5.48 (Feb 19, 2005)

    Among the many free "better Notepad than Notepad" proggies, this is fairly good, but it's missing columnar operations (the ability to select column-based blocks for all operations that can be done to line-based blocks, such as cut/copy/paste, sort, etc.). NoteTab Light, PSPad, and rsEdit are examples of freeware text editors which include columnar operations.

    I do like the clean, uncluttered look of Programmers Notepad. Unfortunately, PN 2 is currently missing hex mode. Version 1 had it, so presumably it will eventually be restored. NoteTab Light and rsEdit are also missing hex mode, but PSPad has it. Out of these 4 freeware editors, PN is the only one which is open source.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    KAK

    Reviewing 2.0.5.48 (Feb 19, 2005)

    Simply the BEST FREEWARE Editor
    that i have used powerfull options make this
    Software to NR.1

    Great work !

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    odunthorne

    Reviewing 2.0.5 (Feb 10, 2005)

    This is simply amazing!

    I've never used anything that is so fast and configurable at the same time.

    I agree that ALOT of work has gone into this.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    rubicant

    Reviewing Beta 14 (Nov 17, 2000)

    wow, what a great idea, works great too. i definetely recommend it. a lot of hard work was put into this program.

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