Notepad2 4.0.22 Beta 2 / 3.1.21

Notepad2 4.0.22 Beta 2 / 3.1.21 is a useful utility which provides you a free, small and fast editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages.

The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills!

Notepad2 tries to follow this principle, being a fast, small and free text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages.

Major Features:

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

Enhancements

• No ini-file is created by default (save settings with F7, once)
• "Move Up" and "Move Down" keep selection and work with blocks
• Set cursor to start (Ctrl+,) or end of text selection (Ctrl+.)
• "URL Encode" (Ctrl+Shift+E) and "URL Decode" (Ctrl+Shift+R)
• "Escape" (Ctrl+Alt+E) and "Unescape C Special Chars" (Ctrl+Alt+U)
• "Sort Lines" with several options (Alt+O)
• "Pad With Spaces" block command (Alt+B)
• "Replace Next" assigned to hotkey (F4)
• Auto strip trailing blanks option (File, Line Endings, Default)
• Remapped "Transparent Mode" hotkey to Ctrl+0
• Simple XML detection for files without extensions
• Simple language detection for cgi and fcgi files
• Reload file without file variable parsing (Alt+F8)
• Enabled better styling of C/C++ preprocessor elements
• Recent files and search strings merged with existing items on save
• Paste board mode ignores immediately repeated copy actions
• Command line switch + to accept multiple files (quoted spaces)
• Command line switch to accept single file...