The New Default Windows Text Editor

Notepad is the default Windows text editor that appear the first time since until now almost no extra features. Notepad is only suitable for writing notes "light" or a simple text.

If you need a text editor with more capabilities such as syntax Highlighting, multi-document, search and replace, etc. then please select your replacement notepad 5 below.

1. Notepad ++




Notepad + + is a text editor and a free source code editor that has a feature quite a lot. Freeware is suitable for you who need a text editor with the ability.

Feature :

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• WYSIWYG
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document
• Multi-View
• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
• Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported
• Dynamic position of Views
• File Status Auto-detection
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Multi-Language environment supported
• Bookmark
• Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
• Macro recording and playback

2. PSPad

PSPad is a text editor for programming. Currently PSPad support for programming languages C + +, Cobol, MS-Dos batch, CSS, Forth, Fortran, Foxpro, HTML, XHTML, INI, Inno Setup, Java, JavaScript, KixStart, Object Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, RSS, SQL, tcl / TK, Unix ShellScript, VBScript, Visual Basic, x86 assembler, and more than 120 languages.

3. NoteTab Light

NoteTab Light has the following features:

• Easy to use, reliable, fast, and very flexible.
• Open, navigate and edit many documents at once, even huge files.
• AutoCorrect/Auto-replace mode, thesaurus, and spell checking with 13 language dictionaries available.
• Formatting and conversion commands galore: text case, alignment, strip tags, convert to HTML, unquote e-mails, and much more. Can automatically capture and save text sent to the Clipboard from any application.
• Supports many file formats: DOS, MAC, UNIX, ANSI, ASCII, UNICODE, and EBCDIC.
• Calculates the results of mathematical expressions and inserts them in your text.
• Includes regular expression’s engine based on PCRE (Perl 5 compatible) for wildcard searches and replacements.
• Powerful Clipbook tool makes it easy to access handy macro functions and boilerplate text.
• Programmable – add your own custom commands using an easy-to-learn, full-featured script language

4. Notepad2

Notepad2 is a text editor that is small and lightweight with features syntax Highlighting. This software you can run directly without having to install it first.

5. EditPad Lite

EditPad Lite is a text editor with many advantages compared to Notepad, can be run on Windows NT4 operating system, 98, 2000, ME, XP and Vista.