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GNU Emacs vs Notepad2

A side-by-side look at GNU Emacs and Notepad2. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs

Development

GNU Emacs is a popular, open source text editor and computing environment. It runs on most operating systems and provides extensibility through an Emacs Lisp interpreter.

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Notepad2

Notepad2

Office & Productivity

Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight text editor for Windows. It is based on the Scintilla editing component and builds on the features of Notepad++. Notepad2 has syntax highlighting and folding, auto-completion, zoom in/out and macro support.

text-editorlightweightsyntax-highlightingautocompletionmacro-support

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