What is Notepad2?
Notepad2 is a text editor for Windows that focuses on speed, efficiency, and minimal system resource usage. It is based on the powerful Scintilla text editing component, providing advanced features including:
- Syntax highlighting for over 80 programming languages and markup languages
- Code folding
- Auto-completion of keywords, variables, functions etc.
- Multiple selections and multi-edit
- Customizable key bindings
- Macro recording and playback
- Zoom in/out
- Bookmarks
- Drag and drop text editing
Notepad2 is designed to open almost instantly, even with large files. It has a tabbed interface for working with multiple documents. It supports Unicode and UTF-8 encodings. Additional add-ons and themes allow further customization and extensibility.
In summary, Notepad2 brings efficient text editing capabilities in a super-fast, portable package. It is suitable for software developers, web developers, system administrators and any advanced text editing tasks where performance matters.
Sublime Text, Notepad++, Geany, GNU nano, Kate, SciTE, Notepad3, Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, CudaText, Notepad2-mod are some alternatives to Notepad2.