Notepad++

In a previous post I wrote about Notepad2. Now I think I’ve found something better: Notepad++. Notable (no pun intended) advantages over Notepad2 include a multiple document interface, user-defined syntax highlighting, syntax folding, multiple views, and hex editing. It has a plug-in architecture and the standard plug-ins look pretty powerful.

I spent a few engrossing hours changing the syntax highlighting for HTML, ASP and PHP to my exact liking. It’s stored in an XML file under the %APPDATA% directory which may be edited directly.

It comes with support for a long list of languages, including Python and Ruby, but oddly enough, not JSP. However that should be easily rectified by copying the style for ASP in %APPDATA%\Notepad++\stylers.xml and the keywords for Java in %PROGRAMFILES%\Notepad++\langs.xml.

2 November 2006 | Applications | Comments