Free notepad replacement software for windows

Notepad GTI is a full-featured replacement for Windows notepad with a lot of new and extended features like: column and row counter, selectable fore- and background fonts and colors, search and replace function, printer preview, insert date and time, insert characters from a character set table, comfortable clipboard usage, editable file filters etc.

Notepad++ 5.5.1 will prove to be a free but beneficial (under the GPL license) source code editor which supports several programming languages under Windows environment. It's also a lightweight replacement of Notepad.

The supported languages by Notepad++ are: C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC file, makefile, nfo, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, Unix Shell Script, Fortran, NSIS and Flash action script.

Notepad++ main features are: Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding, User Language Define System, Regular Expression Search, WYSIWYG (If you have a color printer, print your source code in color), Unicode support, Full drag-and-drop supported, Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting, 2 edits and synchronized view of the same document, User Language Define System.

A powerful, tabbed text editor that can successfully replace Notepad Notepad X features a tab document system so you can easily edit multiple documents in the same window.
System requirements:
- .Net Framework 2.0

NotepadEx application represents a freeware Notepad replacement that I have written because I really hated the file size limitation of Notepad and because Notepad doesnt have a text search and replace function.
Before I decided to write NotepadEx I had searched the internet to find a Notepad replacement that would satisfy my needs, but I didnt find one. What I really wanted was a Notepad look-alike without the 32KB file size limitation and with a fast text search and replace function, and not much more. And, it should be freeware.
But all the freeware (and even shareware) programs I found were very large (and therefore loading them took too much time), mainly because they had too many extra features - like spelling checking - that I neither needed nor wanted.
Finally I decided to write my own Notepad replacement. I had a lot of experience with Visual Basic 6, but I decided to write it in Borland Delphi 5, although I didnt have much experience with it. I did this because if I would write it in Visual Basic 6 it would depend on the VB runtime DLL (which is more than 1 MB in size) and therefore it would be loading too slowly. And I also thought this would be a good way to learn Delphi. I downloaded some examples and started my first real Delphi project, called NotepadEx. I got used to Delphi very fast and in two days the first beta version was there.
Main features:
- NotepadEx can read files with file sizes greater than 32KB
- NotepadEx extends the Notepad search function with a very fast replace function
- NotepadEx has a recent files list
- NotepadEx optionally shows a status bar with the cursor position and the file size in it
- NotepadEx uses more shortcut keys:
- Ctrl+N to create a new document
- Ctrl+O to open an existing document
- Ctrl+S to save the document
- Ctrl+P to print the document
- Ctrl+A to select all the text
- Ctrl+F to search for text
- Ctrl+H to search and replace text
- Ctrl+W to toggle Word Wrap
- NotepadEx offers you the possibility to use custom keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) to quickly insert text
- NotepadEx can open and save DOS, Unix and Mac files
- NotepadEx can open and save Ansi and Unicode files
- NotepadEx can restore the cursor position when opening recently used files
- NotepadEx has a function to change the text case (sentence case, lowercase, uppercase, title case, toggle case)
- NotepadEx can trim trailing spaces
- NotepadEx can wrap text at a specified column width
- NotepadEx can show the full path name for the document being edited
- NotepadEx can use the associated icon for the document being edited (just like WordPad does)
- NotepadEx has multi-language support (the currently supported languages are Chinese [PRC], Chinese [Taiwan], Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spain, Swedish and Turkish)
- NotepadEx has a function to preview HTML and XML files in your browser
- NotepadEx can be run in single instance mode
- NotepadEx can stay on top of all other windows