It’s written in C++ and based on powerful editing component Scintilla. Notepad++ is free and open source, first released in 2003 by Don Ho.

It supports several programming languages and features syntax highlighting, syntax folding, PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression) search/replace, auto-completion, multi-document editing, WYSIWYG printing, zoom in and zoom out, bookmarks, macro recording and playback, and more. Notepad++ is basically what would happen if you were to inject Notepad with steroids and forced it to work out.

Naturally, many Mac users sooner or later look for an alternative, and they often stumble upon Notepad++. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.TextEdit is the default text editor in macOS, and it’s just as barebones as the default text editor in Windows, Notepad.

By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.īased on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

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