November 17, 2006 in Tools by Mark Levison

I’ve spend alot of time playing with little bits of text – sometimes from files, sometimes copy and pasted from some other app. I quickly grew tired of the built-in Notepad and
all its limitations.  A few minutes of Googling found dozens (NoteTab, UltraEdit
($), NotePad2, NotePad++).  I like
both ‘2′ and ‘++’ – both support syntax highlighting (for many languages), solid
support search & replace (including regex) … STOP reading go and play with
them.

In the end I choose NotePad++ because it supports having a number of files
open at once (via tabs).

Thanks to the PowerToys
weblog

BTW Programmers Notepad
might also be worth a look.

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