Notepad2

A free, small and fast editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages
The original Notepad shipped with Windows is (ISO Burner Reviews) 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.

Main features of Notepad2:

Customizable syntax highlighting:

HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, CSS, Perl/CGI

C/C++, C#, Java, VB, Pascal, Assembler, SQL

INI, REG, INF, BAT, DIFF

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 (iPod to Mac Transfer) files

Open shell links

Mostly adjustable


Limitations of Notepad2:

Filenames with Unicode characters are not supported. Only filenames containing ANSI characters from the system ANSI code page are supported.

What's New in This Release:

Support for numerous Windows, DOS, ISO, Mac and EBCDIC encodings

Enhanced encoding selection dialog (F9)

"Recode" (F8) to reload file with different source encoding

"Recode file as system default ANSI" (Ctrl+Shift+A)

"Recode file as system default OEM" (Ctrl+Shift+O)

"Recode 7-bit ASCII file (Instant File Recovery Software) as UTF-8" (Shift+F8)

Option to load 7-bit ASCII files as UTF-8 (File, Encoding, Default)

Option to disable encoding tag parsing (File, Encoding, Default)

Issue warning if data can't be converted to selected file encoding

Fix loading of (invalid) Unicode files with embedded null bytes

/e command line switch to specify file source encoding

"Insert Encoding Identifier" (Ctrl+F8)

"Tabify Indent" (Ctrl+Alt+T) and "Untabify Indent" (Ctrl+Alt+S)

"Increase Number" (Ctrl+Alt++) and "Decrease Number" (Ctrl+Alt+-)

Option to auto-reload unmodified files changed by external programs

Hotkey (Alt+F5) and auto-reset option for file change notification

Manual and automatic reloading of files keeps...