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Best Free Text Editor On Windows

Are you having a hard time looking for a text editor for Windows with complete features, fast, reliable but still free? Many good text editors have a price. If the answer is yes, then Notepad++ is the answer. It is like Notepad (the Windows default text editor) but with many features added, like multi-tab view, syntax highlighting, multi-document and multi-view and many more.

Notepad++, based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

So why is it the best? Here is the list of Notepad++ features:

  1. Syntax highlighting with many supported languages like: C, C++, C#, XML, HTML, Java, Perl, VB, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, batch file, and many more…
  2. User-defined syntax highlighting — with this feature you can add your own custom syntax highlighting
  3. Search in file or search all files in one folder — this is the best feature for me, you can find a word in all files in one folder, saving a lot of time. Also supports regular expression search and replace.
  4. What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) — when you print out your code, you will get the same colors as what you see on your monitor
  5. Multi-document views — you can open more than one document as a tab.
  6. Document compare — you can compare 2 open documents to see the difference between them.
  7. File status auto detection — if you modify the files outside the editor you will get a notification to update your opened document.
  8. Multi-language support
  9. Themes and skins — you can change themes and skins for the editor
  10. Many plugins available for download, like FTPExplorerPlugin and FileExplorer which are very useful for me. You can find the complete list here.

So now you know why it is the best? I really find this tool very useful for me as an alternative to Windows Notepad. So how about you? Are you still using the old-fashioned Windows Notepad?