An excellent text editor which supports all types of coding, syntax, spellcheck and more.
Notepad++ Portable is a free and open source text editor app developed by Don Ho for Windows. It's efficient, portable, customizable, light on system resources and user friendly.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below. We've also created some screenshots of Notepad++ Portable to illustrate the user interface and show the overall usage and features of this text editing program.
The best, free Windows notepad replacement
Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.
Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.
Features of Notepad++ Portable
- Auto-completion
- Auto-completion: Suggest and complete words and phrases as you type, based on the language and context of your code.
- Bookmarking
- Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting.
- Customizable interface: Customize the appearance and layout of Notepad to suit your preferences.
- Dynamic position of Views
- Find and replace: Powerful search and replace feature that allows you to quickly find and replace text within a document or multiple documents.
- Macro recording and playback.
- Multi-Language environment supported.
- Plugins: Wide range of plugins that can extend its functionality.
- Portable: Can be run from a USB drive, allowing you to take it with you and use it on any computer.
- Regular Expression Search/Replace supported.
- Supported languages: Over 50 programming, scripting and markup languages, including C++, Java, HTML and Python.
- Syntax highlighting and folding: Highlight and fold code in a variety of languages, making it easier to read and navigate your code.
- WYSIWYG editing layout
Compatibility and License
Notepad++ Portable has been released under the open source GPL license on Windows from text editors. The license provides the options to freely download, install, run and share this program without any restrictions. The source code for Notepad++ Portable should be freely available and modifications are certainly permitted as well as the option to inspect the software.
Don Ho accepts donations for the continued development of this free software.
What version of Windows can Notepad++ Portable run on?
Notepad++ Portable can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
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