The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills!

Notepad2 tries to follow this principle, being a fast, small and free text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages.

Here are some key features of "Notepad2":

Customizable syntax highlighting:
· HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, CSS, Perl/CGI
· C/C++, C#, Java, VB, Pascal, Assembler, SQL
· INI, REG, INF, BAT, DIFF
· Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2
· Basic regular expression search and replace
· Useful word, line and block editing shortcuts
· Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
· Brace matching, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
· Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files
· Open shell links
· Mostly adjustable

Limitations:

· Filenames with Unicode characters are not supported. Only filenames containing ANSI characters from the system ANSI code page are supported.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added PowerShell Script syntax highlighting
· Added missing keywords to JavaScript schemes
· Further simplified syntax schemes by consolidating certain styles
· More accurate "mode" file variable matching with tightened rules
· Avoid repetitive zone checks when running Notepad2.exe internally
· Fixed choice of encoding conversion prompt being ignored
· Fixed recent file dialog hang with inaccessible UNC paths
· Internal changes to allow complete internationalization (future)