Notepad2 is a light-weight, free and open source Notepad-like text editor with syntax lighting for a few commonly used languages.It's based on the Scintilla source code editing componentand works on NT-based versions of Windows.


Features
  - Syntax highlighting: HTML, XML, PHP, ASP (JS, VBS), CSS,
    JavaScript, VBScript, C/C++, C#, Resource Script, Makefiles, Java,
    Visual Basic, Pascal, Assembly, SQL, Perl, Python, Configuration
    Files, Apache Config Files, Batch Files, Diff Files
  - 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

New in Version 2.1.19 (released April 10, 2008)
  - "Line Comment" (Ctrl+Q) and "Stream Comment" (Ctrl+Shift+Q)
  - "Title Case" (Ctrl+Alt+T) and "Sentence Case" (Ctrl+Alt+S)
  - "Compress Whitespace" (Alt+P) command reduces spaces and tabs
  - Original Notepad .LOG feature
  - /f command line switch to set ini-file (/f0 to omit ini-file)
  - /p command line switch trumps sticky window position
  - /p0 uses system default settings for new window position
  - Move new off-screen windows prior to resizing
  - Option to skip Unicode text detection (File, Encoding, Default)
  - Reload file with different default encoding (Ctrl+F8, Shift+F8)
  - Unsaved documents with just whitespace considered empty
  - Improved handling of relative path names
  - File dialog filters can be specified in the Notepad2 ini-file
  - Type of indent guides can be specified in the Notepad2 ini-file
  - Track width of displayed text to adjust horizontal scroll range
  - Selected find results are better scrolled into view
  - Restore scrolling positions on revert
  - Ctrl+Back and Ctrl+Del stop at newlines, as usual on Windows
  - Ctrl+Space doesn't select initial line indentation whitespace
  - Ctrl+Tab hotkey modified to always insert a tabulator
  - Increase (Alt++) and decrease (Alt+-) long lines limit
  - Display long lines limit in statusbar if visual marker enabled
  - Import and export settings from customization dialog (Alt+I, Alt+X)
  - Added "Regular Expression" style to JavaScript and Java schemes
  - Updated filename extension lists with more default types
  - Updated Python keywords to version 3.0
  - Simplified SQL keywords (merged from MySQL and SQLite)
  - Improved compatibility with Windows Vista
  - Improved visual appearance of toolbar button images
  - Print margins can be set to "0"
  - Fixed several bugs with regular expression find and replace
  - Fixed bug with hanging of recent files dialog
  - Fixed bug with charset not being saved properly
  - Fixed bug with display of text selection at the beginning of lines
  - Fixed bug with cursor movement at the start and end wrapped lines
  - Updated Scintilla library to 1.76


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Notepad2 v2.1.19