The document opened inside Notepad2 and worked like any text file. We could also check boxes to set a scheme as default and autoselect schemes by filename extension. That's pretty clever, but if it's not enough, click Customize Schemes for more control and options, including the ability to import and export configuration files.
Notepad's View menu has one entry, Status bar. If all you use Notepad for is grocery lists and passwords, you probably don't need Notepad2; the Microsoft tool is enough. But if you use Notepad for lots of things, you'll probably like Notepad2's many improvements. And if you need a more capable text-editing tool than the built-in Windows Notepad, we definitely recommend Notepad2. Free YouTube Downloader. IObit Uninstaller. Internet Download Manager.
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Modify the Caret Color, Size item to change the caret color and shape valid entries are size:1 , 2 , 3 or block. Add noblink to stop the caret blinking. There have been reports of the caret randomly disappearing on Vista in Direct2D mode, probably due to some issue with subpixel rendering on this platform with small caret sizes. Setting a wider or block caret as outlined above may help, alternatively Direct2D mode can be disabled, as explained in the section about advanced program settings.
The line height is determined by the tallest items, namely Matching Braces and Matching Braces Error, by default. Adapt their size to reduce line spacing to default values, as in this screenshot. As of version 4. Select the character set script matching your local encoding from the font dialog, as in this screenshot. Alternatively, the character set can be entered manually, but only for the Default Style and 2nd Default Style items, as demonstrated in this screenshot.
Note that this option only affects system default ANSI mode. For any other encoding, the Scintilla editing control internally works in UTF-8 mode, and there's no ambiguities which glyph should be used to display a certain code point. Proper text conversion is performed when switching to a new encoding File, Encoding. However, this action will clear the editor undo history.
To ensure a file is loaded as UTF-8, either use the UTF-8 signature which has been invented for this purpose , or add some comments with extended characters to your file. Unicode detection may fail on some systems and result in display of non-Unicode text as garbled Unicode text. The Notepad2 statusbar usually indicates Unicode for such cases, indicating no BOM was present in the file, and the encoding was guessed.
This will not affect UTF-8 detection. Another reason for garbled text may be that the current font does not support all the necessary glyphs required for proper display.
When working in ANSI mode and setting a character set script that does not correspond to your system default ANSI encoding, text may be converted improperly when copying to and pasting from clipboard, in some cases. Also, pasting Unicode characters while in ANSI mode causes non-supported characters to be replaced by default values usually?
This can be fixed by explicitly setting the desired ANSI encoding as the default, i. This enforces UTF-8 mode, internally, and ensures proper encoding conversion for copy and paste operations. The Scintilla source code editing component is capable of displaying NULL bytes, but copy and paste operations will not work properly due to the Windows clipboard specifications.
Details can be found in the Notepad2 Encoding Tutorial. Currently, bidirectional right-to-left text, such as Arabic, Hebrew and others, is not supported by Notepad2. Adding this feature would require modification of the Scintilla editing component.
There may be an easier way to save files with Administrator privileges. The principle of this method would be to create a temporary file, and then use a Win32 API file operation function with partial UAC elevation support to copy the temporary file over the original.
However, this would break hardlinks, so that's why it's a design decision not to implement this method in Notepad2.
Apparently random changes even without any modifications by the user may be caused by the two options to ensure consistent line endings and to strip trailing blanks when saving. These options can be disabled in the File, Line Endings, Default dialog box. Notepad2 has not been designed to handle binary files, and many editing operations, including copying to and pasting from clipboard, will not work properly.
I recommend using one of the numerous excellent free hex editors for Windows , instead. Virtual space is space beyond the end of each line. The Scintilla editing component used by Notepad2 supports this feature, to simplify caret navigation and rectangular text selection. However, enabling virtual space in Notepad2 would cause some inconsistencies with existing Notepad2 functionality, that's why it's a design decision to keep virtual space disabled, for now.
Notepad2 is based on the Scintilla editing component, which has not been designed to handle text with very long lines. Source code editing with usual line lengths works perfectly. Same answer as above: Notepad2 is based on the Scintilla editing component, which has been designed to work with usual source code files.
Working with large files or very long lines, especially when using find and replace operations, may reduce Notepad2 performance. In some cases, find and replace operations can be terribly slow, even if not used on overlong lines.
Explicitly setting the default encoding to a Windows encoding, instead of ANSI, can sometimes improve search speed, i. As one single line may contain many different syntax styles, proper line length calculation requires high performance. For this reason, a fixed width is assumed. The end of long lines can always be reached using the End key or the scrollbar arrows. On Windows 7 and above, Notepad2 utilizes a system function to convert text to title case.
Depending on your computer's regional settings, the system function may not change words already starting with or containing one or more upper case letters. The workaround is to convert text to lower case, before using the Title Case function. The most recent versions of the Scintilla source code editing component support case insensitive search for non-ASCII characters. This feature is available in Notepad2 4. However, this does not apply to regular expression search: extended characters, which are not part of the basic ASCII character set, are always treated case sensitive.
This is possible when activating the Transform backslashes option in the find and replace dialog boxes. Notepad2 supports only a limited subset of regular expressions, as provided by built-in engine of the Scintilla source code editing component. The advantage is that it has a very small footprint.
There's currently no plans to integrate a more advanced regular expressions engine, but this may be an option for future development.
Notepad2 uses the limited, but lightning-fast and tiny-footprint regular expressions engine built-in to the Scintilla editing component. Switching to a more advanced engine, such as PCRE or similar, would increase the complexity of the Notepad2 source code, and the size of the executable file.
It's a design decision that the advantages do not outweigh the disadvantages explained here, but this will be reevaluated for future development. Notepad2 can parse a few of the Emacs variables that can be used in source code files. The first bytes of a file and, if nothing is found, also the last bytes are checked for the following constructs can be manually disabled in the ini-file , or the File, Encoding, Default dialog box, respectively :.
The example below updates CVS-like timestamps:. Refer to the Readme. Either disable the Reuse Window option from the Settings menu, or run Notepad2. If Notepad2. Run Notepad2. The following examples display an Apache configuration file with standard configuration file highlighting:.
The last two modifiers are exclusive, and it's not possible to match double quotes as these are used to separate command line arguments. The Notepad2. Requires a restart of Notepad2. As a general consideration, Notepad2 is keeping a copy of the whole file being edited in memory, as this is necessary to perform proper syntax highlighting i. Besides the bytes representing the text, Notepad2 also consumes memory for syntax styling information, undo and redo history, and encoding conversion.
As of Notepad2 version 5. This explains the need for a lot of extra memory when loading and saving files. Notepad2 should warn you if there's not enough free memory when loading or saving a file, and not do anything harmful to the file. With large files being edited and many editing operations accumulating in the undo and redo history, the Scintilla editing component may run out of memory, and not allow any more user actions.
In this case, it's usually not possible to save the file, as this would require even more memory. There should be no damage to the underlying original file, but the performed changes stored in memory are likely to be lost, as there's usually not enough free memory to copy the text to clipboard, either the Windows clipboard accepts data as UTF, and Scintilla works with UTF-8, so the required encoding conversion would feed up additional space.
To be on the safe side, it's recommended to only edit files smaller than megabytes in Notepad2 the limit on x64 platforms may be somewhat higher, as Notepad2 may be able to allocate larger memory chunks here , and save and reload files from disk from time to time to clear the undo and redo history, especially if many complex operations have been performed. Of course Notepad2 could be optimized to perform encoding conversion with smaller memory chunks, but this would be of no help regarding memory consumption of syntax styling information, and undo and redo history.
So it's a design decision for now that Notepad2 is not intended to edit large files. Even modern web browsers are terribly slow with large plain text files even on ultra-fast machines , so large files are better be split into smaller parts, even more if editing with an agile Notepad-like editor is desired.
The large file warning message dialog provides an option not to be displayed any more. Or you could adjust the size limit for when the warning is triggered: add the value FileLoadWarningMB to the [Settings2] section of the Notepad2 ini-file, and assign it the size in megabytes. Notepad2 needs to keep the whole file in memory to be able to perform syntax highlighting , and also requires additional memory to store undo history, perform encoding conversion on saving, etc.
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