Screenshot of version 4.1.24
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Developer(s) | Florian Balmer |
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Initial release | April 15, 2004 |
Stable release | 4.2.25 (6 May 2011 | )
Preview release | 5.0.26-beta4 (28 October 2012 | )
Repository | sourceforge |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Windows |
Platform | IA-32, x64 |
Size | 305–371 KB |
Available in | English |
Type | Text editor |
License | BSD |
Website | www |
Notepad2 is a free and open-source text editor for Microsoft Windows, released under a BSD software license. It was written by Florian Balmer using the Scintilla editor component, and it was first publicly released in April 2004. Balmer based Notepad2 on the principles of Notepad: small, fast, and usable.
It features syntax highlighting for many programming languages: ASP, assembly language, C, C++, C#, Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML, Java, JavaScript, NSIS, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, Visual Basic (VB), VBScript, XHTML, and XML. It also features syntax highlighting for the following file formats: BAT, DIFF, INF, INI, REG, and configuration files (.properties).