Notepad2 3.1.21 RC4

Notepad2 3.1.21 RC4, the original Notepad shipped with Windows, provides you with the most simple and 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.

It's based on the Scintilla source code editing component and works on NT-based versions of Windows.

Major Features:

1. 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
2. Files, Apache Config Files, Batch Files, Diff Files
3. Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2
4. Basic regular expression search and replace
5. Useful word, line and block editing shortcuts
6. Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
7. Brace matching, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
8. Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files
9. Open shell links
10. Mostly adjustable

Enhancements:

1. No ini-file is created by default (save settings with F7, once)
2. "Move Up" and "Move Down" keep selection and work with blocks
3. Set cursor to start (Ctrl+,) or end of text selection (Ctrl+.)
4. "URL Encode" (Ctrl+Shift+E) and "URL Decode" (Ctrl+Shift+R)
5. "Escape" (Ctrl+Alt+E) and "Unescape C Special Chars" (Ctrl+Alt+U)
6. "Sort Lines" with several options (Alt+O)
7. "Pad With Spaces" block command (Alt+B)
8. "Replace Next" assigned to hotkey (F4)
9. Auto strip trailing blanks option (File, Line Endings, Default)
10. Remapped "Transparent Mode" hotkey to Ctrl+0
11. Simple XML detection for files without extensions
12. Simple language detection for cgi and fcgi files
13. Reload file without file variable parsing (Alt+F8)
14. Enabled better styling of C/C++ preprocessor elements
15. Recent files and search strings merged with existing items on save
16. Paste board mode ignores immediately repeated copy actions
17. Command line switch + to accept multiple files (quoted spaces)
18. Command line switch - to accept single file argument (no quotes)
19. Option to set default command line mode (single or multiple files)
20. Command line switches to set file encoding and line ending mode
21. More /p command line switches (see "Command Line Switches" below)
22. /r command line switch to reuse existing window
23. /ns and /rs command line switches to enable single file instance
24. Renamed /t command line switch to /d (select default text scheme)
25. /t command line switch to set window title
26. Set window title to excerpt of current text selection (Ctrl+9)
27. Save relative pathnames for recent files (ini-option to disable)
28. Save relative directories for "Open with..." and "Favorites"
29. "Open with..." no longer sends short pathnames to external programs
30. External commands use current file directory as working directory
31. Remember "Save Copy" location until exit
32. Require only single click to restore window from tray icon
33. "Reuse Window" option timeout improves opening multiple files
34. Replaced "Find Up" option with "Find Previous" button in dialogs
35. "Find Wrap" notification dialogs provide "Cancel" button
36. Find and replace dialogs provide new system menu commands
37. Dialog boxes use correct theme fonts on Vista
38. Patches to default styles, file types and auto-detection by Kai Liu
39. Incorporated base x64 source code compatibility patch
40. Fixed some problems with relative ini-file locations
41. Fixed some minor file variable problems
42. Fixed some encoding detection issues
43. Fixed some find and replace problems
44. Fixed several memory leaks when saving files
45. Fixed several memory leaks for editing operations
46. Reduced size of Notepad2.exe program file

Requirements: No special requirements

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