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.

- 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

What's New:
· /z command line switch (support registry-based Notepad replacement)
· /u command line switch (launch Notepad2 with elevated privileges)
· Fixed some /p command line switch options not working properly
· Display more informative error messages for file operation failures
· Hotkey to copy pathname of current file to clipboard (Shift+F9)
· Window title indicator when running with elevated privileges
· Ini-options to control system MRU, taskbar and jump list behaviour
· Revised word wrap settings dialog and added more detailed options
· New style setting to control font smoothing (see FAQ on my website)
· New style setting to control size of visible white space dots
· Added new "HTML Element Text" and "XML Element Text" styles
· Improved default style utilization for HTML-embedded schemes
· Updated PowerShell keywords to version 2.0
· Updated Scintilla library to 2.02

Download: Notepad2 4.1.24 (280 KB) | Screenshot | Homepage