Notepad++

toggle-button

Submitted by site.editor | Last update on

Notepad++

A popular and widely-used editor loaded with features to make your programming more productive
4.5

Our rating: 

4.5
Get It: Windows (Desktop)
License: Free (Open source)
Website: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Review & Alternatives: Best Free Programming Editor
Categories: Programming, Programming Editor
Tags: code-editor, programming-editor, text-editor, html-editor

Pros & Cons:

Syntax and brace highlighting for many languages, search and replace, macro recording and playback, highly configurable with many plugins with a plugin manager and supported in their forums, together with other useful features.
Running in the Windows environment only.

Our Review:

Notepad++ is a popular and widely-used editor loaded with features to make the users' programming more productive, including syntax and brace highlighting for many languages, search and replace using regular expressions, macro recording, and playback.

It is also highly configurable through plug-ins, has a wide range of themes and offers multi-language support. Other features include color source code printing, auto-completion, multi-document and multi-view, drag and drop, syntax folding, bookmark, ASCII art display and more.

A plugin manager is included in the program showing the installed and available plugins. The installed plugins include Compare, Document Monitor, MIME Tools, NppExec, NppExport, Spell Checker, etc. Installation of the available plugins is made user-friendly, just tick the items the users need and click the 'Install' button. Some other Notepad++ plugins are listed here with their dedicated forums.

Notepad++ was reviewed by on