Various tools such as line sorting, text encoding conversion, text folding.FTP Browser (plug-in included in standard installation).

Regular expression find and replace (in perl compatible extent).

Find and replace: with regular expressions (including multi-line) over multiple documents and marking/summary of occurrences.

UTF-8 and several UTF-16 encodings are supported.

Supports text encoding formats such as Unicode, for international writing systems.

Spell checker (requires Aspell) (Spell checker does not distinguish between text and code).

Split screen editing and synchronized scrolling.

Notepad++ uses the Scintilla editor component. The project has been hosted on TuxFamily since June 2010. The project was hosted on, from where it has been downloaded over 28 million times, and twice won the SourceForge Community Choice Award for Best Developer Tool. Notepad++ is distributed as free software.

The project's name comes from the C increment operator. Notepad++ opens large files significantly faster than Microsoft's Notepad and Wordpad. Unlike Notepad, the built-in Windows text editor, it supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window. Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows.

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