The folks at NotePad++ also claim that the lightweight, simple, extensible plain text editor is also helping to reduce the total world carbon footprint by optimizing routines, and using less CPU power and power consumption for a greener earth. Based on the powerful editing component from Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL, which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. NotePad++ supports several languages, runs on the Microsoft Windows environment, and is governed by a GPL license. In this segment, I am going to go further in-depth with a review of the free, open source text editor NotePad++. Some time ago I touched on several free/inexpensive and open source tools for web developers and included several text editors, image viewers and other tools. Here is his list of pros and cons and recommendations for who is likely to get the most out of it.

Ryan Boudreaux reviews the free, open source text editor Notepad++. Open source NotePad++ is a solid contender among text editors

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