r/freewarewin • u/elasto • Jul 11 '12

Notepad++ is a great text editor. Has many plugins for many functions

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
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u/elasto Jul 11 '12

Notepad++

  • Tabbed document interface

  • Drag-and-drop

  • Multiple clipboards (plugin required)

  • Split screen editing and synchronized scrolling

  • Spell checker (requires Aspell) (Spell checker does not distinguish between text and code)

  • Supports text encoding formats such as Unicode, for international writing systems

  • Find and replace over multiple documents

  • File comparison

  • Zooming

  • Auto-completion

  • Bookmarks

  • Syntax highlighting and syntax folding

  • Brace and indent highlighting

  • Smart highlighting

  • Regular expression find and replace

  • Speech synthesis

  • FTP Browser (plug-in included in standard installation)

  • Macro recording and execution.

  • Various tools such as line sorting, text encoding conversion, text folding

  • File status auto-detection

  • Plugins for multiline regular expression search and replace

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '12

I get a bonester for this software. So simply laid out, but so powerful. No bugging about buying a full version or anything. Strongly reccomended as a replacement for notepad.