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Notepad++

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Notepad++ is a free, open-source text and source code editor for Windows, designed to provide a lightweight yet powerful alternative to the standard Notepad. Developed in C++ and utilizing the Scintilla editing component, it offers enhanced performance and a wide array of features tailored for developers and general users alike. Key Features and Functionality: - Syntax Highlighting and Folding: Supports over 70 programming, scripting, and markup languages, including C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, and Python, facilitating easier code reading and organization. - Tabbed Document Interface: Allows users to work with multiple open files within a single window, enhancing productivity and ease of navigation. - Auto-Completion: Provides suggestions for code completion, reducing typing effort and minimizing errors. - Search and Replace with Regular Expressions: Enables powerful text manipulation capabilities across multiple documents. - Multi-View and Multi-Edit: Supports split-screen editing and synchronized scrolling, allowing simultaneous editing of different parts of a document or multiple documents. - Macro Recording and Playback: Automates repetitive tasks by recording sequences of actions for later use. - Plugin Support: Extensible through a robust plugin architecture, with over 140 plugins available to add functionalities such as FTP support, spell checking, and more. Primary Value and User Solutions: Notepad++ addresses the need for a versatile and efficient text editor that caters to both simple text editing and complex coding tasks. Its lightweight design ensures quick startup and responsiveness, while the extensive feature set supports a wide range of programming and scripting needs. By offering a customizable interface, support for numerous languages, and the ability to handle large files, Notepad++ enhances productivity and streamlines the development process for programmers, web developers, and general users seeking an advanced text editing solution.

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We define, create and build brands for the world's most ambitious companies. Most of the world’s best ideas start life as a quick sketch or scribble in a notepad. Thomas Edison sketched an idea for a lightbulb and his invention now illuminates billions of rooms around the world. James Dyson sketched out an idea for a bagless vacuum, and 5,127 prototypes later, he cracked it. Leonardo Da Vinci scribbled down ideas for the ball bearing, roller bearing, and needle bearing, which now help to power everything from computers, to bicycles and airplanes. Humble notepads are home to invaluable sketches, notes, stories and ideas that will one day become the world’s most beloved books, famous paintings, timeless songs, or incredible world-changing businesses. Right now, countless makers, inventors and entrepreneurs are scribbling down ideas that could challenge the status quo and move the world forward. As a team of thinkers, creatives, dreamers, makers and do-ers, our in-house strategists find the very best ideas, develop them into noteworthy brands, and help them achieve sustained growth. Working alongside our strategists, our Notepad network of 30+ designers, illustrators, photographers, writers and creatives allows us to take a Hollywood-model approach to branding to ensure every business we work with has the absolute best team for the job. Subscribe to our newsletter at www.notepadstudio.com to find out more. Let's grow something noteworthy.

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Rakshit A.
02/19/2026
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Fast Editor for Quick Config Edits and Massive Log File Debugging

The best feature is that I can open massive log files, or even JSON responses from APIs, to check errors and analyze them without the app getting stuck or hanging. I use it every day to create or edit Kubernetes YAML manifest files, as well as Docker Compose files. It’s also very lightweight and doesn’t take up much space.
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Rahul G.
Developer at Central Council of Research in Ayurvedic Sciences
02/17/2026
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Lightweight and Great for Quick Edits, but the Interface Feels Dated

Notepad++ is one of the editor for any IT professional as it is light weight and superb for single file editing as it takes low RAM. For quick fix in a project for a single file it is the best choice.
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Mauro B.
Head of Information Technology at Mondetta Canada, Inc.
02/12/2026
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All around the best document editing software for developers and all users

Notepad++ is very robust and has many useful plugins available to enhance it as well. The search and/or replace functionality is terrific. The plugins allow an almost endless ability to customize the functionality to what you need. Being able to select different file formats to properly display XML, C# and various other formats is incredibly useful for any kind of development, whether reviewing/editing code files, or reviewing data content such as json or XML files. The multi tabs and Notepad++'s ability to save tabs when the program is closed, and then re-open the same set is very helpful as well.

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What is Notepad++?

Notepad++ is a source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.

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