Description
The stock Notepad chokes on a log with a few hundred thousand lines, and a full IDE takes a pile of installs and a slow start just to open one file. Notepad4 takes a different road: a Scintilla based text editor for Windows whose archive is barely over a megabyte, runs straight after unzipping, and still carries syntax highlighting, code folding and auto completion for the work you actually do.
It continues the classic Notepad2 with extra features on top: bookmarks, marking every occurrence of a selected word with a match count, color value call tips, and Base64 encoding and decoding. The language list is long, from C/C++ and Python to batch files, CMake and config formats, each with its own highlighting and API hints. A small file browser plugin called matepath ships alongside, and the release page offers x64, AVX2 and ARM64 builds plus localized and HD variants for high DPI screens.
Highlighting and folding: dozens of programming languages and document formats, auto closing of brackets and quotes, and folded blocks that can be previewed on hover
Enhanced auto completion: completes words and function names, offers context based suggestions for some languages and keeps indentation in step
Bookmarks and word marking: bookmark key lines and jump between them, or select a word to mark every occurrence with a count
Color preview: hover over a color value to see the actual color, and click the call tip to open the color dialog
Base64 encode and decode: transform the selected text in place without pasting it into a web tool
Light and portable: a single executable after unzipping with settings kept in an ini next to it, so it rides on a USB drive
Many builds and languages: x64, AVX2, AVX512 and ARM64 builds, Simplified and Traditional Chinese among the UI languages, under the BSD 3-Clause license
It continues the classic Notepad2 with extra features on top: bookmarks, marking every occurrence of a selected word with a match count, color value call tips, and Base64 encoding and decoding. The language list is long, from C/C++ and Python to batch files, CMake and config formats, each with its own highlighting and API hints. A small file browser plugin called matepath ships alongside, and the release page offers x64, AVX2 and ARM64 builds plus localized and HD variants for high DPI screens.
Features
Highlighting and folding: dozens of programming languages and document formats, auto closing of brackets and quotes, and folded blocks that can be previewed on hover
Enhanced auto completion: completes words and function names, offers context based suggestions for some languages and keeps indentation in step
Bookmarks and word marking: bookmark key lines and jump between them, or select a word to mark every occurrence with a count
Color preview: hover over a color value to see the actual color, and click the call tip to open the color dialog
Base64 encode and decode: transform the selected text in place without pasting it into a web tool
Light and portable: a single executable after unzipping with settings kept in an ini next to it, so it rides on a USB drive
Many builds and languages: x64, AVX2, AVX512 and ARM64 builds, Simplified and Traditional Chinese among the UI languages, under the BSD 3-Clause license
