Seriously, this has got the be the best find I’ve come across in a very long time.
I never have felt quite right with the tools I’ve used for the XHTML/CSS work I’ve done up to this point. Dreamweaver almost always is an overkill and all the extra tools just end up getting in the way. Notepad is nice and simple, but unfortunately, too simple.
Then Notepad2 came into my life and all became right in my XHTML/CSS development life. It has all the best code-based features that Dreamweaver has in the nice, simple shell of Notepad. By far, the best feature is the ability to “zoom in/out” on the code. Truly awesome. Did I mention it’s free? No? Well it is.
The Discussion
8 Comments on “Notepad2, where have you been all my life?”Rik Copley
10.10.05 4:22 ami find a combination of dreamweaver and notepad can do the trick though.
P.J. Onori
11.10.05 9:37 pmThat combo definitely works, but I’ve found this app alone to fit my needs much better.
akaRaff
9.11.05 6:06 amTry Textpad. It blows all of the other text editors away. textpad.com. As a data guy, I use textpad to open huge files with the ease of small ones. Enjoy.
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Dustin A. Dortch
27.11.05 6:51 amUltraedit is great. You may find it useful, too.
Brandon
13.12.05 10:33 amVery much agreed. Notepad2 is worth every line of code its written from.
I was downloading these lousy free trial type text editors until a colleague mentioned this little ditty of a wonder. I never leave home without it now.
Ralph
13.01.06 8:45 amHmm, a neat little text editor. I prefer UltraEdit though. Check it out some time
Ramond
4.02.06 6:40 pmNotepad++ rulez !!!
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
Bertrand HAMON
4.03.06 1:12 pmNotepad++ is my favorite text (code source) editor :
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
It supports tons of languages, including HTML, PHP, JavaScript and ruby.
Some of the things that stand out to me: Macros, Multi-document sync’d scrolling, Vector-style zoom in/out, and Code highlighting that is on-par with Dreamweaver. It also has comparable site-wide find and replace. Another nice feature are tabs that behave like Firefox. They are draggable, and a middle-click closes them. Anything I could say won’t do it justice. In short, what Firefox is to the browsing, Notepad++ is to code.
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