Notepad2 4.2.25

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Date updated

February 7, 2012

Developer

Florian Balmer | (more products)

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Free

Platform

Windows

Description of Notepad2 4.2.25

A text editor with improved features

Notepad2 is a an application that gets installed over the classic Notepad and tries to bring to the table a couple of improvements such as syntax highlighting, search and replace for regular expressions or the ability to open shell links. Speed and ease of use are the main strong points of Notepad, the program's second version keeps these two major features and adds something on the side, such as syntax highlighting.This is done quite easily from the View menu, where you can select from one of the available schemes.

Syntax highlighting is available for XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, C/C++, Perl, Python and other coding languages. Another feature that can come in handy is the ability to drag and drop text. Simply put, with the help of this feature you can copy your text from one location into Notepad2 and vice-versa, just like in Microsoft Word.Rectangular selection is also possible now. With the help of the Alt button and your left mouse click you can select your text under the form of a rectangle. Word Wrap function has been preserved and more than that, now you can edit the wrap settings. You are also able to zoom in and out of your text and add indentation guides. There are a lot of functions that are specially built to make your editing life easier. For example, you can now set the program to always stay on top, make the window transparent, change the function of the Esc key or change the way the window title is displayed.And if you're still not satisfied, you should know that you can also customize the app's toolbar.

Notepad2 is a welcomed refresh to the classic program. The bunch of new features combined with the speed and ease of use make out of it a real solid text editor.

Key features

• Customizable syntax highlighting:
• HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, CSS, Perl/CGI
• C/C++, C#, Java, VB, Pascal, Assembler, SQL
• INI, REG, INF, BAT, DIFF
• Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2
• Basic regular expression search and replace
• Useful word, line and block editing shortcuts
• Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
• Brace matching, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
• Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files
• Open shell links
• Mostly adjustable

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What is new in version 4.2.25

• "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