Notepad++ is a free source editor and Notepad replacement with the syntax highlighting.
It also gives the extra functionality to the general user: colorize the user defined words. You can print your source code in color (or whatever you want) if you have a color printer (WYSIWYG). Furthermore, Notepad++ includes the multi-view feature, which allows the user to edit the different documents at the same time, and even edit the same document synchronously in 2 different views.
Notepad++ supports drag and drop: not only you can drop the file from explorer to open it, but also you can drag and drop a document from a view to another. With all the functionalities, Notepad++ runs as fast as Notepad provided by MS Windows.
Features:
- Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
- User Language Defined System
- Tabed document and Multi-View
- More than 50 languages supported
- Full Drag N' Drop supported
- Macro recording and playback
- Extensible with its plugin system
Download the Stable version: Notepad++ 5.6.8
What's New in version 5.7 RC:
- Upgrade Scintilla to version 2.12.
- Add "Inverse bookmark" feature.
- Add NPPM_SAVECURRENTFILEAS message.
- Fix premature deallocation bug for import UDL.
- Add import/export User Defined Language features.
- File detection : Switch to modified or deleted file while user is asked to reload or keep the file.
- Fix closing several detected non-existing files bug.
- Fix language switching to English not working bug.
- Reduce PostIt/FullScreen restore button size.
- Fix PostIt wrong restore button position after toggling off fullScreen mode.