Notepad2 Overview
Notepad2 is a free, open-source lightweight text editor for Windows, designed as a fast, tiny replacement for the built-in Notepad with useful extra features. Built on the Scintilla editing component, it adds syntax highlighting for many programming and markup languages, line numbers, bracket matching, code folding, customizable schemes, regular-expression search and replace, and the ability to handle different encodings and line endings — while staying extremely small and quick to open. It is popular for quick code and config editing where a full IDE is unnecessary. The full offline/portable build runs without an internet connection. Several community forks add extra features, and the editor remains a favorite for fast, single-file editing on Windows. This page links to the official Notepad2 download.