Remarks
Unlike Notepad, the built-in Windows text editor, it supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window. Notepad++ supports several programming languages and natural languages. Notepad++ is one of the most popular source code editors in the world, and supports syntax highlighting and code folding for over 50 programming, scripting, and markup languages. General features include:
- Works on Microsoft Windows, Unix and Classic Mac OS line ending characters;
- Automatic backup of unsaved files;
- Text encoding formats such as ASCII, Unicode, UTF-8 and several UTF-16 encodings;
- Find and replace with regular expressions (including multi-line); over multiple documents; and marking/summary of occurrences;
- Square selection (to edit multiple lines at once);
- Data comparison;
- Drag-and-drop;
- Simultaneous editing;
- Split screen editing and synchronized scrolling;
- Tabbed document interface;
- Zooming (with Control/Command + Mouse wheel);
- Speech synthesis (text to speech);
- Multiple clipboards (plugin required);
- Spell checker (requires Aspell);
- FTP Browser (plug-in included in standard installation).