Notepad++ Another Fast Notepad replacement with syntax highlighting

We covered Notepad2.exe before, but Don sent me his "NotePad++" application to try. The main differences I've seen between the two is that notepad2 seems to launch a little faster on my machine, but notepad++ supports a multiple document tabbed interface.  I also like the bit of humor on the Notepad++ toolbar selection:

"Hide Me", "Reduce Me", "Enlarge Me", or... "Give me the ugly, hideous, standard icons" :-)

Check it out for yourself here: https://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 28, 2004
  I'll have to check this out. I've noticed that notepad2 has a few problems:
  Bad performance over term server
  No search up capability (even though they expanded the search capabilities)
  Poor search performance (I'm betting it's for(int i =0 ;i<strlen(file); i++) if(stricmp(&file[i], str, strlen(str)))) { match! } instead of a better string matching algorithm.
  
  So in short it could use some improvements, and tabbed interface sounds great.

• Anonymous
  September 28, 2004
  Thanks for the hint!
  

• Anonymous
  September 28, 2004
  UltraEdit rocks

• Anonymous
  September 28, 2004
  UltraEdit rocks
  
  Real hackers use WinHex for editing documents :D
  
  Hands up how many use Visual Studio for surfing and editing files when editing? Why open YET ANOTHER APPLICATION when you can just open a new tab?
  
  

• Anonymous
  September 28, 2004
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• Anonymous
  September 29, 2004
  Shrug what's the point? We have SCiTe...

• Anonymous
  September 29, 2004
  I would never use a product that has that ever-hilarious "M$" lamecronym on the front page, free as it might be.
  
  BTW, if you want editors, we have editors =)
  
  http://www.vbbox.com/tools/editors/
  

• Anonymous
  September 29, 2004
  Well, I might just throw in Programmers Notepad 2 (http://www.pnotepad.org/) into the round dance of other editors :) And no, I am not doing it because I participate in its development only :)

• Anonymous
  September 30, 2004
  Klaus,
  
  It's not a reasonable argument to judge a software just by its "M$" lamecronym.
  
  free as you might be.
  

• Anonymous
  October 01, 2004
  A neat little Open Source text editor which is context sensitive so that I can spot the code from the text as I create web pages.
  I now use it for everything. Thank you guys for this great link!

• Anonymous
  January 28, 2005
  Notepad replacements

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