Notepad++ 5.3 RC

Notepad++ 5.3 RC offers a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the M$ Windows environment.Notepad++ is a great freeware replacement for Notepad.

This project, based on Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component) and written in C++ with pure win32 api (i.e. without MFC, that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

This project is mature. However, as you can see it a one-man-project, there're still some bugs and missing features.

Major Features:

1. Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
2. User Defined Syntax Highlighting
3. Auto-completion
4. Multi-Document
5. Multi-View
6. Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
7. Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported
8. Dynamic position of Views
9. File Status Auto-detection
10. Zoom in and zoom out
11. Multi-Language environment supported
12. Bookmark
13. Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
14. Macro recording and playback
    
15. Supported languages :

• C C++ Java C# XML HTML
• PHP CSS makefile ASCII art (.nfo) doxygen ini file
• batch file Javascript ASP VB/VBS SQL Objective-C
• RC resource file Pascal Perl Python Lua TeX
• TCL Assembler Ruby Lisp Scheme Properties
• Diff Smalltalk Postscript VHDL Ada Caml
• AutoIt KiXtart Matlab Verilog Haskell InnoSetup
• CMake YAML
• WYSIWYG