Productivity & Development
Notepad++
A fast Windows text and source-code editor with tabs, syntax highlighting and powerful search tools.
What it does
Notepad++ sits between the simplicity of Windows Notepad and the complexity of a full development environment. It opens many files at once, highlights programming languages, supports regular-expression searches and offers a broad plug-in ecosystem.
Why we recommend it
We recommend it because it starts quickly, handles plain text exceptionally well and adds just enough development-oriented features to be useful to programmers, website maintainers and power users.
Strengths
- Fast and lightweight
- Tabbed editing
- Syntax highlighting for many languages
- Powerful find/replace and plug-in support
Things to consider
It is not a full IDE, so large software projects may still require dedicated build, debugging and project-management tools. It is primarily a Windows application.
DIRECT DOWNLOAD
Download Notepad++ 8.9.8.1
Download the Windows version directly from the OpenSource-DVD.org server.
Project information
Visit the official project page for documentation and release information. The German OpenSource-DVD entry provides our established catalogue information.