Notepad2 is an open-source text editor for Microsoft Windows, released under a BSD software license. It is written by Florian Balmer using the Scintilla editor component, and was first publicly released in April 2004. Balmer based Notepad2 on the principle of Microsoft Notepad: small, fast and without frills. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 33 KB, MIME type: image/png) Source: Myself, screenshot taken from my own copy of Notepad2 2. ... In software engineering, software maintenance is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects. ... Florian Balmer is an independent software developer living in Switzerland. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Notepad is the standard text editor for Microsoft Windows A text editor is a piece of computer software for editing plain text. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The BSD daemon BSD licenses represent a family of permissive free software licenses. ... A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a... Open source software is computer software whose source code is available under a license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that permits users to study, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. ... Notepad is the standard text editor for Microsoft Windows A text editor is a piece of computer software for editing plain text. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... The BSD daemon BSD licenses represent a family of permissive free software licenses. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Florian Balmer is an independent software developer living in Switzerland. ... SciTE using the Scintilla edit control Scintilla is an open-source code-editing component. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... For the item of stationery, see notebook. ...

It features syntax highlighting for the following computer languages: ASP, Assembly, C, C++, C#, CGI, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, NSIS, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, VB, VBScript, XHTML and XML. It also features syntax highlighting for the following file formats: BAT, DIFF, INF, INI, REG and configuration files (.properties). HTML syntax highlighting Syntax highlighting is a feature of some text editors that displays text—especially source code—in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms. ... A computer language is a language used by, or in association with, computers. ... Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsofts Server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages. ... See the terminology section, below, regarding inconsistent use of the terms assembly and assembler. ... C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus, IPA: ) is a general-purpose, high-level programming language with low-level facilities. ... C# (pronounced see-sharp) is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft as part of their . ... The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard protocol for interfacing external application software with an information server, commonly a web server. ... In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ... HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ... Java is an object-oriented applications programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. ... Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS), is an open source, script-driven installation system with minimal overhead backed by Nullsoft, creators of Winamp. ... Pascal is an imperative computer programming language, developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a language particularly suitable for structured programming. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Perl Programming Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... PHP (PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor) is a reflective programming language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... The related Category:SQL statements has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. ... Visual Basic (VB) is an event driven programming language and associated development environment from Microsoft for its COM programming model. ... VBScript (short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an Active Scripting language interpreted via Microsofts Windows Script Host. ... The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but also conforms to XML syntax. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ... HTML syntax highlighting Syntax highlighting is a feature of some text editors that displays text—especially source code—in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms. ... A file format is a particular way to encode information for storage in a computer file. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Guide to Windows commands In MS-DOS, OS/2 and Windows, a batch file is a text file containing a series of commands intended to be executed by the command interpreter. ...

Notepad2 also has several other features:

• Auto indentation
• Bracket matching
• Encoding conversion between ASCII, UTF-8 and UTF-16 formats
• Multiple undo/redo; rectangular block selection
• Newline conversion, between DOS (CR/LF), Unix (LF) and Mac (CR) formats
• Regular expression-based find and replace

Balmer has stated [1] that some features will probably never be implemented in Notepad2, as they are beyond his design goal of a simple Notepad-like application. These include Notepad2's most requested feature, a multiple document interface. A character encoding or character set (sometimes referred to as code page) consists of a code that pairs a sequence of characters from a given set with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the storage of text in computers... There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ... UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode created by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. ... In computing, UTF-16 is a 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format, a character encoding form that provides a way to represent a series of abstract characters from Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 as a series of 16-bit words suitable for storage or transmission via data networks. ... In computing, a newline is a special character or sequence of characters signifying the end of a line of text. ... Instructions on how to use the directory command. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... In computing, a regular expression is a string that is used to describe or match a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ... MDI implementation in the Windows version of Adobe Photoshop. ...

See also

• List of text editors
• Comparison of text editors
• Scintilla (editing component)

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External links

• Notepad2 - Flo's Freeware
• Sourceforge - Notepad2 on Sourceforge