Just thought I'd pass this on. I just found it and am trying it. Many options (tools).

Anyway a Free "gadget". Be sure to "mouse-over" the Language option on the left menu on the homepage!

Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Thanks amigo !

yes it is excellent.

also try ted notepad (freeware).

Update: Can be installed right over the old version.


Notepad++ v4.8.1 Released
Released: 03.03.08

Changes in version 4.8.1:
1. Enhance Shortcut Mapper - all the commands (including plugins commands) can be assigned to a shortcut, even for the unmapped ones.
2. Upgrade Scintilla from v1.73 to v1.75
3. Add multi-line and vertical capacity for tab bar.
4. Add launch "as notepad" style feature (detection of asNotepad.xml, then launch notepad++ with -multiInst -nosession -notabbar options).
5. Add detection mouse wheel on the different view feature : User can scroll edit view when mouse on it, it's not necessary to set edit view as current view to scroll it.
6. Add clicking middle mouse button click to set current view feature : make clicked edit view be focused, but the cursor position does not change.
7. Add mouse wheel horizontal scroll feature (vista only).
8. Add mouse browsing (forward/back for switching to next/previous document) feature.
9. Make orange indicator on the top of tab lighter when the view loss the focus.
10. Add new look and feel of Docking container.
11. Fix word-completion crash bug while the word to complete exceeds 256 characters.
12. Fix full screen mode bug : can not switch applications by using Alt+TAB in full screen mode.
13. Fix Preference crash bug.
14. Add the utf8->ansi / ansi->utf8 conversion feature.
15. Add Go to offset feature (in Go To Line dialog).
16. Fix folding bugs while deleting the begin/end folding keywords.
17. Fix position restored bug : Wrap position is restored correctly while switching back document.
18. Fix locking current directory behaviour : Restore Notepad++ directory as working directory with no open files.
19. Fix the multi-line tab height display problem while adding/removing the document.
20. Enhance the auto-completion feature : user can define the number of characters to trigger auto-completion popup window.
21. Change the horizontal scroll behaviour from dynamic one to static one.
22. Fix the bug that cannot save file(s) if application closed while minimized.


http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Notepad++ v4.8.2 Released

Released: 03.09.08

Changes in version 4.8.2:

1. Fix unicode input problem for non-western language.
2. Add the capacity (behaviour) of keeping line highlighting even when Notepad++ loss its focus.
3. Fix missing fonts problem in font list of Stylers configurator.
4. Fix the hot key problem : make Alt+f+s work again.
5. Fix the hardware problem : make keyboard commands (such as "e-mail", "calculator", "sound", ...) works again.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Updated to 5.0

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