December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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6.5 Handling Small Tasks with Notepad2
Sometimes you just don’t need a full-blown IDE for your work. Why pop open Visual Studio and suffer through its long startup time when all you want to do is change a value or two in a .config file, or show an example of some C# code for a review or presentation? A text editor would meet your needs just as well. But on the other hand, plain old Notepad is pretty grim, since it has no support for syntax highlighting or regular-expression-based searches and replacements, among other limitations.
Notepad2 is a lightweight, simple text editor that can easily serve these purposes and many others. Florian Balmer’s tool, released under GPL terms, is perfect when you need a text editor for quick uses. Notepad2 supports syntax highlighting for most popular languages and has terrific editing features.
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Tool | Notepad2 |
Version covered | 1.0.12 |
Home page | |
Power Tools page | |
Summary | A lightweight, powerful text editor offering syntax highlighting for many different languages |
License type | GNU Public License |
Online resources | FAQ, mailing list |
Related tools in this book | Snippet Compiler |
Getting Started
Notepad2 is available as source code, or as a separate .zip with the compiled executable. Both versions come with a .reg file for controlling Notepad2 options and a readme with extensive ...
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