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Description
Notepad2 is a light-weight, free and open source Notepad-like text
editor with syntax highlighting for a few commonly used languages.
It's based on the Scintilla source code editing component and works
on NT-based versions of Windows.
Features
- Syntax highlighting: HTML, XML, PHP, ASP (JS, VBS), CSS,
JavaScript, VBScript, C/C++, C#, Resource Script, Makefiles, Java,
Visual Basic, Pascal, Assembly, SQL, Perl, Python, Configuration
Files, Apache Config Files, Batch Files, Diff Files
- Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2
- Basic regular expression search and replace
- Useful word, line and block editing shortcuts
- Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
- Brace matching, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
- Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files
- Open shell links
- Mostly adjustable
New in Version 4.0.22 (released July 28, 2009)
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Support for numerous Windows, DOS, ISO, Mac and EBCDIC encodings
Enhanced encoding selection dialog (F9)
"Recode" (F8) to reload file with different source encoding
"Recode file as system default ANSI" (Ctrl+Shift+A)
"Recode file as system default OEM" (Ctrl+Shift+O)
"Recode 7-bit ASCII file as UTF-8" (Shift+F8)
Option to load 7-bit ASCII files as UTF-8 (File, Encoding, Default)
Option to disable encoding tag parsing (File, Encoding, Default)
Issue warning if data can't be converted to selected file encoding
Fix loading of (invalid) Unicode files with embedded null bytes
/e command line switch to specify file source encoding
"Insert Encoding Identifier" (Ctrl+F8)
"Tabify Indent" (Ctrl+Alt+T) and "Untabify Indent" (Ctrl+Alt+S)
"Increase Number" (Ctrl+Alt++) and "Decrease Number" (Ctrl+Alt+-)
Option to auto-reload unmodified files changed by external programs
Hotkey (Alt+F5) and auto-reset option for file change notification
Manual and automatic reloading of files keeps current encoding
Scroll find matches and jump positions away from bottom border
Enabled new Scintilla indent modes for wrapped lines

Option to set any characters as boundaries for word wrap

Allow bigger tab-/indent-widths (256) and long line limit (4096)
Allow setting extra line spacing (through "Default Text" scheme)
Dropping directories displays file open dialog
Consolidated styles to simplify configuration (patch by Kai Liu)
Ensure cursor visibility on any background color (patch by Kai Liu)
Enabled improved Scintilla Pascal lexing module (patch by Kai Liu)
Updated HTML keywords to version 5.0
Remapped "Manage Favorites" hotkey to Alt+F9
Remapped "Invert Case" hotkey to Ctrl+Alt+U
Remapped "Title Case" hotkey to Ctrl+Alt+I
Remapped "Sentence Case" hotkey to Ctrl+Alt+O
Fixed various minor bugs
Notepad2.exe program file no longer compressed with UPX
Updated Scintilla library to 1.79

New in Version 3.1.21 (released June 21, 2009)

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No ini-file is created by default (save settings with F7, once)

"Move Up" and "Move Down" keep selection and work with blocks
Set cursor to start (Ctrl+,) or end of text selection (Ctrl+.)
"URL Encode" (Ctrl+Shift+E) and "URL Decode" (Ctrl+Shift+R)
"Escape" (Ctrl+Alt+E) and "Unescape C Special Chars" (Ctrl+Alt+U)
"Sort Lines" with several options (Alt+O)
"Pad With Spaces" block command (Alt+B)
"Replace Next" assigned to hotkey (F4)
Auto strip trailing blanks option (File, Line Endings, Default)
Remapped "Transparent Mode" hotkey to Ctrl+0
Simple XML detection for files without extensions
Simple language detection for cgi and fcgi files
Reload file without file variable parsing (Alt+F8)
Enabled better styling of C/C++ preprocessor elements
Recent files and search strings merged with existing items on save
Paste board mode ignores immediately repeated copy actions
Command line switch + to accept multiple files (quoted spaces)
Command line switch - to accept single file argument (no quotes)
Option to set default command line mode (single or multiple files)
Command line switches to set file encoding and line ending mode
More /p command line switches (see "Command Line Switches" below)
/r command line switch to reuse existing window
/ns and /rs command line switches to enable single file instance
Renamed /t command line switch to /d (select default text scheme)
/t command line switch to set window title
Set window title to excerpt of current text selection (Ctrl+9)
Save relative pathnames for recent files (ini-option to disable)
Save relative directories for "Open with..." and "Favorites"
"Open with..." no longer sends short pathnames to external programs
External commands use current file directory as working directory
Remember "Save Copy" location until exit
Require only single click to restore window from tray icon
"Reuse Window" option timeout improves opening multiple files
Replaced "Find Up" option with "Find Previous" button in dialogs
"Find Wrap" notification dialogs provide "Cancel" button
Option to suppress replace count notifications
Find and replace dialogs provide new system menu commands
Dialog boxes use correct theme fonts on Vista
Patches to default styles, file types and auto-detection by Kai Liu
Incorporated base x64 source code compatibility patch
Fixed some problems with relative ini-file locations

Fixed some minor file variable problems

Fixed some encoding detection issues
Fixed some find and replace problems
Fixed several memory leaks when saving files
Fixed several memory leaks for editing operations
Reduced size of Notepad2.exe program file

New in Version 3.0.20 (released October 31, 2008)

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Notepad2 converted to a native Win32 Unicode application

"Copy Add" (Ctrl+E) to append selected text to clipboard
"Unwrap Paragraphs" (Ctrl+Shift+J)
"Strip Last Character" (Alt+U)
"Select Line", can be used repeatedly (Ctrl+Shift+Space)
Remapped "Delete Line" hotkey to Ctrl+Shift+D
Remapped "Transparent Mode" hotkey to Alt+O
Allow easy toggling of find and replace dialogs (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+H)
Save and restore find and replace dialog positions (Ctrl+O, Ctrl+P)
Files with UTF-8 Signature always loaded in UTF-8 mode
Simple HTML detection for files without extensions
Support basic Emacs file variables (see FAQ on my website)
Update timestamps (Shift+F5) (see FAQ on my website)
%APPDATA% searched for existing ini-file
Modest enhancements to scheme customization dialog
Improved performance for saving settings to ini-file
Less restrictive handling of quoted filenames on command line
Keep scrolling positions when reloading changed files
Modified /s command line switch to work with extensions, not ids
/m command line switch to match specified text
/q command line switch to force creation of new files
Pass command line switches to existing windows: /s /t /h /x /g /q
Proceed to next match after choosing "replace" in replace dialog
Fixed some more find and replace problems
Improved visual appearance on Windows Vista
Updated Scintilla library to 1.77

New in Version 2.1.19 (released April 10, 2008)

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"Line Comment" (Ctrl+Q) and "Stream Comment" (Ctrl+Shift+Q)

"Title Case" (Ctrl+Alt+T) and "Sentence Case" (Ctrl+Alt+S)
"Compress Whitespace" (Alt+P) command reduces spaces and tabs
Original Notepad .LOG feature
/f command line switch to set ini-file (/f0 to omit ini-file)
/p command line switch trumps sticky window position
/p0 uses system default settings for new window position
Move new off-screen windows prior to resizing
Option to skip Unicode text detection (File, Encoding, Default)
Reload file with different default encoding (Ctrl+F8, Shift+F8)
Unsaved documents with just whitespace considered empty
Improved handling of relative path names
File dialog filters can be specified in the Notepad2 ini-file
Type of indent guides can be specified in the Notepad2 ini-file
Track width of displayed text to adjust horizontal scroll range
Selected find results are better scrolled into view
Restore scrolling positions on revert
Ctrl+Back and Ctrl+Del stop at newlines, as usual on Windows
Ctrl+Space doesn't select initial line indentation whitespace
Ctrl+Tab hotkey modified to always insert a tabulator

Increase (Alt++) and decrease (Alt+-) long lines limit

Display long lines limit in statusbar if visual marker enabled
Import and export settings from customization dialog (Alt+I, Alt+X)
Added "Regular Expression" style to JavaScript and Java schemes
Updated filename extension lists with more default types
Updated Python keywords to version 3.0
Simplified SQL keywords (merged from MySQL and SQLite)
Improved compatibility with Windows Vista
Improved visual appearance of toolbar button images
Print margins can be set to "0"
Fixed several bugs with regular expression find and replace
Fixed bug with hanging of recent files dialog
Fixed bug with charset not being saved properly
Fixed bug with display of text selection at the beginning of lines
Fixed bug with cursor movement at start and end of wrapped lines
Updated Scintilla library to 1.76

New in Version 2.0.18 (released July 26, 2007)

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"Select To" command in find dialog allows expanding the selection

"Select To Next" (F2) and "Select To Previous" (Shift+F2)
"Save Find Text" (Alt+F3) for later use with F2, F3, etc.
"Swap" (Ctrl+K) to exchange selected text with clipboard contents
Notepad2.exe program file is compressed with UPX by default

New in Version 2.0.17 (released July 24, 2007)

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Option to allow only one Notepad2 window for each file

Option to display filename in window title in various forms
Hotkey Shift+Esc to save file and exit Notepad2
Indent size can be specified separately from tab width
Indent guides are highlighted along with matching braces
Caret can be displayed as a block (specify "block" for caret width)
Find and replace dialogs can be toggled from the toolbar
Tray icon is restored when Explorer is restarted
Fixed bug with brace matching
Fixed bug with replacement of ^c cutting the last character
Fixed bug with regular expression search causing infinite loop
Updated Scintilla library to 1.74

New in Version 2.0.16 (released May 14, 2007)

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The msvcr70.dll runtime library is no longer required

"Enclose Selection" helper tool (Alt+Q)
Single line files are opened with default line ending mode
Remapped hotkey Ctrl+Shift+Z from "Undo" to "Redo"
Remapped hotkey Ctrl+Shift+Y from "Redo" to "Undo"
Fixed bug: problem with MRU lists causing random crashes
Fixed bug: moving lines up/down not working properly
Fixed bug: window settings overwritten on new screen resolution

New in Version 2.0.15 (released April 07, 2007)

- BSD License for Notepad2 and source code (see License.txt)
- "Insert HTML/XML Tag" helper tool (Alt+X)
- Regex support for \d, \D, \s, \S, \w, \W, \xHH

Text selection can have "eolfilled" style (on by default)

Caret blink rate is set to system default on startup
Support for opening makefiles without filename extension
Dropped Windows 9x support
Requires msvcr70.dll runtime library
Updated Scintilla library to 1.73

New in Version 2.0.14 (not released to the public)

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Find and replace dialogs: Don't wrap around on find option

Use the clipboard contents as the replacement text (enter ^c)
Date and time formats can be changed using template strings
"FileCheckInterval" ini-setting (see FAQ on my website)

New in Version 2.0.13 (not released to the public)

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Settings are stored in ini-file

File change notification (optional)
Find and replace dialogs are now modeless
Multiline find and replace through transform backslashes function
Find next / previous word / selected text (Ctrl+F3, Ctrl+Shift+F3)
Find and replace dialogs: exclusive options deactivate each other
Find wrap notification message can be deactivated
Preview function in scheme customization dialog
Quickly change the default font (F2)
Script information is saved along with font settings
Selection and current line background support transparency
Open ASCII files as UTF-8 if the default setting is UTF-8
Open empty files with default encoding and line ending settings
Don't prompt to save modified empty untitled documents
Line endings are always converted to current setting on paste
Ensure consistent line endings option (File, Line Endings, Default)
NTFS streams are preserved when saving files
Switching encoding performs proper text conversion to new encoding
Encoding conversion notification message can be deactivated
Encoding selection dialog displays info about system ANSI code page
Downgraded ANSI code page support to system default only
Big file warning message can be deactivated
"Wrap Text To Column" command (Ctrl+Shift+W)
"Modify Lines" command to prefix and append text to lines (Alt+M)
"Duplicate Selection" command (Alt+D)
"Invert Case" command (Ctrl+Shift+E)
"Clear clipboard" command (in the "Edit" menu)
Force indent and unindent (Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab)
Highlight current line (Ctrl+Shift+I)
Additional hotkey for "New File": Ctrl+F4
Mapped Ctrl+Shift+Y/Z to Ctrl+Y/Z
New hotkey for "Tab Settings" (Ctrl+T)
Changed hotkey for "Join Lines" (Ctrl+J)
Rearranged some items in the "View" and "Settings" menus
"Copy" tool button works as "Copy All" when no text selected
"Clear" tool button works as "Clear All" when no text selected
Ctrl+Space: select line if word is already selected
<br>, <hr> and other tags are no longer closed automatically
File, revert now asks if you really want to revert the file
"Open with..." and "Favorites" directories can be relative
Directories can be used as favorites (triggers open dialog)
Filter for open and save dialogs is always set to *.*

Location of metapath.exe can be specified in ini-file

"DefaultDirectory" ini-setting (see FAQ on my website)
"DefaultExtension" ini-setting (see FAQ on my website)
Select print color mode (defaults to color on white)
Don't print separator line if header or footer omitted
Added proper support for multiple monitor systems
Allow multiple window position settings for different screen sizes
Option to use a sticky window position
New command line switches to select syntax schemes: /s, /t, /h, /x
Added Apache Config Files syntax highlighting
Added Perl POD verbatim style
Updated PHP keywords to PHP5
Updated SQL keywords
Updated CSS syntax highlighting to CSS2
Removed NSIS syntax highlighting
Removed ActionScript syntax highlighting
Removed "Bookmarks" feature
Removed "Delete Line Left/Right" and "Transpose Line" commands
Removed code page trace message
Fixed several bugs that caused Notepad2 to crash when saving files
Fixed crash when printing to offline printer
Fixed bug with transparency level setting

New in Version 1.0.12 (released June 25, 2004)

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Notepad2 source code now released under the GNU GPL

"Read Only" option handles file attributes
Enhanced find and replace dialogs with new options
Optionally auto close HTML/XML tags (Ctrl+Shift+H)
Improved tabify/untabify selection functions
New hotkey to select XML scheme (Shift+F11)

New in Version 1.0.11 (released May 30, 2004)

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Simple favorites management based on file shortcuts (Alt+I)

Optional toolbar buttons for favorites management
Improved undo / redo handling of auto indent text
Better cursor behaviour for line editing commands
Clipboard text is converted according to font character set
Auto-select ANSI code page option (File, Encoding, Default...)
Windows system text and background colors used by default
Enabled some new comment styles for C/C++ related languages

New in Version 1.0.10 (released May 21, 2004)

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Option to select a default syntax scheme (F12)

Find, replace, upper- and lowercase handle umlauts and accents
Paste board feature (cmd switch /b) to collect clipboard entries
Text is copied to clipboard in Unicode format (Windows NT/2k/XP)
Reload current file without encoding detection (F8)
Updated CSS properties to version 2.1
"Reuse Window" disabled by default to allow multiple windows

New in Version 1.0.09 (released May 13, 2004)

- Convert tabs to spaces and vice versa (Ctrl+Shift+S/T)

Insert time/date (short form/long form) (Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+Shift+F5)

Insert filename/path and filename (Ctrl+F9, Ctrl+Shift+F9)
Added missing copy line command (Ctrl+Shift+C)
Enabled script selection in font dialogs

New in Version 1.0.08 (released May 08, 2004)

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Find and replace dialogs accept Unicode input (Windows NT/2k/XP)

Warning message for large files (customizable using Notepad2.reg)
Default file extension is "txt" (customizable using Notepad2.reg)
New command line parameters: /c, /g, /?
Fixed writing of hidden and system files (Windows XP/2k)
Fixed some handling problems with relative pathnames
Notepad2.txt outlines how to import and export Notepad2 settings

New in Version 1.0.07 (released May 03, 2004)

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Select default encoding for new files

Select default line endings for new files
Right clicking moves cursor if no selection
Zooming with Ctrl+Mousewheel recalculates line number width

New in Version 1.0.06 (released April 30, 2004)

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Word wrap settings, show word wrap symbols (Ctrl+Shift+0)

Move line up/down (Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down)
Remove blank lines (Alt+R)
Bookmarks for file navigation (Ctrl+F2)
Minimal print header and footer customization
Remapped some keyboard shortcuts (see Notepad2.txt)
Added a few comments to Notepad2.txt

New in Version 1.0.05 (released April 26, 2004)

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Support for XML, ActionScript 2.0, Python, NSIS Script

Fully customizable second default style (Shift+F12)
Find matching brace (Ctrl+B)
Select to matching brace (Ctrl+Shift+B)
Goto column (Ctrl+J)
Optionally change background color of long lines
Transparent mode on Windows 2k and above (Alt+U)
Fixed line endings detection for Unicode files

New in Version 1.0.04 (released April 20, 2004)

- Fixed loading of UTF-8 files with signature
New in Version 1.0.03 (released April 19,2004)
- Toggle word wrap toolbar button
- New block command: strip first character (Alt+Z)
- Strip trailing blanks uses selection, if any

New in Version 1.0.02 (released April 17, 2004)

- Reload current file (F5)
- Revised printing functionality
- Zooming recalculates line number width
New in Version 1.0.01 (released April 15, 2004)
- Initial public release
Installation and Uninstallation
Just put a copy of Notepad2.exe and Notepad2.ini to any directory on
your computer. To uninstall Notepad2, simply delete these two files.
Notepad2 does not create any registry entries on your computer.
Keyboard Shortcuts for Notepad2
File
Ctrl+N
Ctrl+F4
Ctrl+O
F5
F8
Ctrl+Shift+A
Ctrl+Shift+O
Shift+F8
Alt+F8
Ctrl+S
F6
Ctrl+F6
Ctrl+P
Alt+H

New file.
Close file, identical with Ctrl+N.
Open file.
Reload file.
Recode.
Recode file as system default ANSI.
Recode file as system default OEM.
Recode 7-bit ASCII file as UTF-8.
Reload file without file variable parsing.
Save file.
Save file as.
Save file copy.
Print file.
Open recent file.

Tools
Alt+N
Alt+0
Ctrl+M
Ctrl+L
Alt+L
Ctrl+R

Open document in new window.

Open new empty window.
Run metapath file browser plugin.
Launch document.
Open with.
Run command.

Favorites
Alt+I
Alt+K
Alt+F9

Open favorites.
Add to favorites.
Manage favorites.

Edit
Ctrl+Z
Ctrl+Shift+Z
Alt+Backspace
Ctrl+Y
Ctrl+Shift+Y

Undo.
Redo.
Undo.
Redo.
Undo.

Ctrl+X
Shift+Del
Ctrl+C
Alt+C
Ctrl+E
Ctrl+V
Shift+Ins
Ctrl+K
Del
Ctrl+A
Alt+Shift+Arrows
Ctrl+Enter
Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn
Ctrl+Shift+PgUp/PgDn

Cut.
Cut.
Copy.
Copy all.
Copy add.
Paste.
Paste.
Swap.
Clear.
Select all.
Rectangular selection.
New line with toggled auto indent option.
Goto previous/next block.
Select to previous/next block.

Char, Word
Ctrl+Space
Ctrl+Backspace
Ctrl+Del
Ctrl+Tab

Select
Delete
Delete
Insert

word (or line).

word before/left.
word after/right.
tabulator.

Lines
Ctrl+Shift+Space
Ctrl+Shift+Up
Ctrl+Shift+Down
Ctrl+D
Ctrl+Shift+X
Ctrl+Shift+C
Ctrl+Shift+D
Ctrl+Shift+Backspace
Ctrl+Shift+Del
Ctrl+Shift+W
Ctrl+I
Ctrl+J
Ctrl+Shift+J

Select line.
Move line (block) up.
Move line (block) down.
Duplicate line.
Cut line.
Copy line.
Delete line.
Delete line left.
Delete line right.
Column wrap.
Split lines.
Join lines.
Join paragraphs.

Block
Tab
Shift+Tab
Alt+Q
Alt+D
Alt+B
Alt+Z
Alt+U
Alt+W
Alt+P
Alt+R
Alt+M
Alt+O

Indent selected block.

Unindent selected block.
Enclose selection.
Duplicate selection.
Pad with spaces.
Strip first character.
Strip last character.
Strip trailing blanks.
Compress whitespace.
Remove blank lines.
Modify lines.
Sort lines.

Convert
Ctrl+Shift+U
Ctrl+U
Ctrl+Alt+U
Ctrl+Alt+I
Ctrl+Alt+O

Make uppercase.
Make lowercase.
Invert case.
Title case.
Sentence case.

Ctrl+Shift+S
Ctrl+Shift+T
Ctrl+Alt+S
Ctrl+Alt+T

Convert
Convert
Convert
Convert

tabs to spaces.
spaces to tabs.
indenting tabs to spaces.
indenting spaces to tabs.

Insert
Alt+X
Ctrl+F8
Ctrl+F5
Ctrl+Shift+F5
Ctrl+F9
Ctrl+Shift+F9

HTML/XML tag.
Encoding identifier.
Time/date (short form).
Time/date (long form).
Filename.
Path and filename.

Special
Ctrl+Q
Ctrl+Shift+Q
Ctrl+Shift+E
Ctrl+Shift+R
Ctrl+Alt+E
Ctrl+Alt+U
Ctrl+Alt++
Ctrl+Alt+Ctrl+B
Ctrl+Shift+B
Ctrl+1
Ctrl+2
Ctrl+3
Ctrl+4
Ctrl+5
Ctrl+6
Shift+F5
Ctrl+,
Ctrl+.

Block comment (toggle).

Stream comment.
URL Encode.
URL Decode.
Escape C Special Chars.
Unescape C Special Chars.
Increase number.
Decrease number.
Find matching brace.
Select to matching brace.
Enclose within ''.
Enclose within "".
Enclose within ().
Enclose within [].
Enclose within {}.
Enclose within ``.
Update timestamps.
Jump to selection start.
Jump to selection end.

Find, Replace
Ctrl+F
Alt+F3
F3
Shift+F3
Ctrl+F3
Ctrl+Shift+F3
F2
Shift+F2
Ctrl+H
F4
Ctrl+G

Find.
Save find text.
Find next.
Find previous.
Find next word or selection.
Find previous word or selection.
Expand selection to next match.
Expand selection to previous match.
Replace.
Replace next.
Jump to line.

Syntax scheme, Font

F12
Shift+F12
Ctrl+F12
Alt+F12
F11
Ctrl+F11
Shift+F11

Select syntax scheme.

Select 2nd default syntax scheme.
Customize syntax schemes.
Select default font.
Select default text syntax scheme.
Select web source code syntax scheme.
Select XML document syntax scheme.

View
Ctrl+W
Ctrl+Shift+L
Ctrl+Shift+G
Ctrl+Shift+N
Ctrl+Shift+M
Ctrl+Shift+8
Ctrl+Shift+9
Ctrl+Shift+0
Ctrl+Shift+V
Ctrl+Shift+I

Toggle word wrap.

Show long line marker.
Show indentation guides.
Show line numbers.
Show selection margin.
Show whitespace.
Show line endings.
Show wrap symbols.
Toggle visual brace matching.
Highlight current line.

Zoom
Ctrl++
Ctrl+Ctrl+/

Zoom in.
Zoom out.
Reset zoom.

Settings
Ctrl+T
Alt++
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+H
Alt+T
Alt+F5
Ctrl+0
Ctrl+9
F7
Ctrl+F7

Tab settings.
Increase limit for long lines.
Decrease limit for long lines.
Toggle auto close HTML/XML.
Always on top.
File change notification settings.
Transparent mode.
Display text excerpt in title.
Save settings now.
Jump to ini-file.

Misc.
Esc
Shift+Esc
F1

Optionally minimize or exit Notepad2.

Save file and exit Notepad2.
Display version info.

Regular Expression Syntax

Note: the Scintilla source code editing component supports only a
basic subset of regular expression syntax, and searches are limited
to single lines.
.

Matches any character

\(

This marks the start of a region for tagging a match.

\)

This marks the end of a tagged region.

\n

Where n is 1 through 9 refers to the first through ninth

tagged region when replacing. For example, if the search
string was Fred\([1-9]\)XXX and the replace string was
Sam\1YYY, when applied to Fred2XXX this would generate
Sam2YYY.

\<

This matches the start of a word.

\>

This matches the end of a word.

\x

This allows you to use a character x that would otherwise

have a special meaning. For example, \[ would be interpreted
as [ and not as the start of a character set.

[...] This indicates a set of characters, for example, [abc] means

any of the characters a, b or c. You can also use ranges, for
example [a-z] for any lower case character.
[^...] The complement of the characters in the set. For example,
[^A-Za-z] means any character except an alphabetic character.
^

This matches the start of a line (unless used inside a set,

see above).

This matches the end of a line.

This matches 0 or more times. For example, Sa*m matches Sm,

Sam, Saam, Saaam and so on.

This matches 1 or more times. For example, Sa+m matches Sam,

Saam, Saaam and so on.

\d
\D

Any decimal digit.

Any character that is not a decimal digit.

\s
\S

Any whitespace character.

Any character that is not a whitespace character.

\w
\W

Any "word" character.

Any "non-word" character.

\xHH

Character with hex code HH.

-----> Examples (don't use quotes)

- Quote lines: find "^" replace with "> "
- Unquote lines: find "^> " replace with ""
- Remove line numbers: find "^[0-9]+" replace with ""
- Convert tabs to double spaces: find "\t" replace with " "
Command Line Switches
Notepad2.exe [(encoding)] [(line ending mode)] [/e id] [/g ln[,col]]
[/m[-][r|b] text] [/q] [/s ext] [/d] [/h] [/x] [/c]
[/b] [/n|/ns] [/r|/rs]
[/p x,y,cx,cy[,max]|/p0|/ps|/pf,l,t,r,b,m]
[/t title] [/i] [/f ini|/f0] [/?] [+|-] [file] ...
file File to open, can be a relative pathname, or a shell link.
Must be the last argument, no quoted spaces by default.
+
Accept multiple file arguments (with quoted spaces).
Accept single file argument (without quoted spaces).
... Desired file encoding (can be one of /ansi, /unicode,
/unicodebe, /utf8 or /utf8sig).
... Desired line ending mode (either /crlf, /lf, or /cr).
/e
Specify file source encoding.
/g
Jump to specified position, /g -1 means end of file.
/m
Match specified text (/m- last, /mr regex, /mb backslash).
/q
Force creation of new files without prompt.

/s
/d
/h
/x
/c
/b
/n
/r
/p
/t
/i
/f
/?

Select syntax scheme associated with specified extension.

Select default text scheme.
Select Web Source Code scheme.
Select XML Document scheme.
Open a new Notepad2 window and paste the clipboard contents.
Open a new Notepad2 paste board to collect clipboard entries.
Always open a new Notepad2 window (/ns single file instance).
Reuse Notepad2 window (/rs single file instance).
Set window position to x,y with size cx,cy, optional max set
to nonzero to zoom; /p0 system, /ps internal defaults;
/p(f)ull,(l)eft,(t)op,(r)ight,(b)ottom,(m)argin.
Set window title.
Start as tray icon.
Specify ini-file; /f0 use no ini-file (don't save settings).
Display a brief summary about command line parameters.

Source Code
Notepad2 is based on the Scintilla source code editing component:
http://www.scintilla.org
The full Notepad2 source code can be found at:
http://www.flos-freeware.ch
More Information and Resources
For more information on Notepad2 features, and answers to the most
frequently asked questions (FAQ), please visit the Notepad2 website:
http://www.flos-freeware.ch
Feature Requests
Thank you very much for the overwhelming feedback about Notepad2!
Feature requests are always welcome, but please keep in mind that
Notepad2 has been designed as a compact Notepad replacement.
Hyperlink support is currently not provided by the Scintilla source
code editing component (and not planned), it's unlikely I will
implement this.
Notepad replacement is easier said than done, I'm sorry! Instructions
on how to replace Notepad on various versions of Windows can be found
around in the net.
Credits and Special Thanks
Here I would like to say "THANK YOU" to the developers of the great
Scintilla source code editing component [1], which is the core of
Notepad2. Without Scintilla, the rich features found in Notepad2
wouldn't have been possible!
[1] http://www.scintilla.org
Many thanks to everybody for sending me bug reports and useful hints.
A special thank goes to Roland Weigelt [2] for his helpful thoughts
and comments about Notepad2 features and usability in early develop-

ment stages. I'd also like to express my thanks to Timo Kunze [3],
to Kai Liu [4] and to Moritz Kroll for sending detailed bug reports
and ready-to-use patches.
[2] http://www.roland-weigelt.de
[3] http://www.TimoSoft-Software.de
[4] http://code.kliu.org/misc/notepad2/
Copyright
Notepad2 is FREE SOFTWARE and may be used and distributed freely.
Please do not charge any distribution or download fees for this
program, except for the cost of the distribution medium. The use of
this software is AT YOUR OWN RISK. See License.txt for full details.
If you have comments or questions, please drop me a note:
florian.balmer@gmail.com
(c) Florian Balmer 2004-2009
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