Notepad2
Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.08
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 20 January 2023
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NAME
Notepad2 - fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting
SYNOPSIS
WA2LWinTools/bin/Notepad2
[
-h
|
-i
|
-u
|
-V
]
Notepad2
[
options
]
AVAILABILITY
WA2L/WinTools
DESCRIPTION
Notepad2
is a free and open-source text editor for
Microsoft Windows™, released under a BSD software
license.
It was written by Florian Balmer using the Scintilla
editor component, and it was first publicly released
in April 2004.
Balmer based
Notepad2
on the principles
of Microsoft™ Notepad: small, fast, and usable.
It features syntax highlighting for many programming
languages: ASP, assembly language, C, C++, C#, Common
Gateway Interface (CGI), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS),
HTML, Java, JavaScript, NSIS, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python,
SQL, Visual Basic (VB), VBScript, XHTML, and XML. It also
features syntax highlighting for the following file formats:
BAT, DIFF, INF, INI, REG, and configuration files (.properties).
Notepad2 also has several other features:
- -
-
Auto indentation
- -
-
Bracket matching
- -
-
Encoding conversion between ASCII, UTF-8, and UTF-16 formats
- -
-
Multiple undo/redo; rectangular block selection
- -
-
Newline conversion, between DOS (CR/LF), Unix (LF), and Macintosh (CR) formats
- -
-
Regular expression-based find and replace
OPTIONS
- -h
-
usage message.
- -i
-
install the
Notepad2
command as menu point
'Notepad2'
to the
'Send To'
context menu in
'Windows Explorer'.
- -u
-
uninstall the
Notepad2
shortcut from the
'Send To'
context menu in
'Windows Explorer'.
- -V
-
print program version.
- options
-
more options.
See also:
https://www.flos-freeware.ch/doc/Notepad2.txt
ENVIRONMENT
-
EXIT STATUS
- 0
-
always.
FILES
- etc/Notepad2.cfg
-
configuration file of
Notepad2.
This file is updated when settings in the
Notepad2
application are changed and saved.
EXAMPLES
-
SEE ALSO
wintoolsintro(1),
np(1),
config(1m),
https://www.flos-freeware.ch/doc/Notepad2.txt,
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/doc/notepad2-FAQs.html,
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
NOTES
This manpage is a partial extract of the Wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad2
(deleted on 12.10.2022)
which has been written by Dani Kolt <danikolt@blueyonder.co.uk> and
many others.
BUGS
-
AUTHOR
Notepad2 was developed by Florian Balmer
(http://www.flos-freeware.ch)
and integrated into
WA2L/WinTools
by Christian Walther. Send suggestions
and bug reports regarding the integration to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2023
Christian Walther
This is free software; see
WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING
for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not
even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This document was created by man2html
using the manual pages.
Time: 16:32:32 GMT, September 14, 2024