Notepad++


Notepad++

Notepad++
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Notepad++ is a text editor written in C++ seen its first release in November 24,2003.It is a free software.  Besides being a text editor and source code editor for Windows. There are many features which makes reasonable for choosing Notepad++ over Notepad. It supports  for about 50 mark-up,scripting and programming languages. Using a list of file extension bindings it attempts to automatically detect the language the corresponding file uses. Users can override the extension's default language and manually set the current language. Some prominent languages which are supported by Notepad++ version 6.5 are: C, C++, C#, HTML, PHP,  Python, Ruby, SQL, Visual Basic,XML. Notepad++ supports auto completion for a subset of the API of these languages. It displays intent guidelines when source code is intended with tab characters and highlight closing braces,brackets and tags. The other features includes 
Tabbed document interface
    It supports tabbed editing i.e in a single window it allows working multiple open files.
Split screen
    It is a display technique that consists of dividing graphics and/or text into non-movable adjacent parts into rectangular areas.
Spell Checker
    It is an application program that flags word in a document that may not be spelled correctly.
Drag and Drop
    It is a feature which requires plug ins and it is a pointing device gesture in which user selects a virtual object by grabbing it and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object.
Syntax highlighting and syntax folding
     A mechanism allowing the user to hide and reveal blocks of text. 
The official website is http://www.notepad-plus-plus.org/

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