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Programmer’s Notepad, simply powerful text editor

June 21, 2007 at 8:14 pm · Filed under tools

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Programmer’s Notepad is for people who don’t prefer to code in either large IDE’s or just windows Notepad. Programmer’s Notepad is handy tool and good replacement for Notepad users. Programmer’s Notepad comes with lot of enriched features and is highly customizable.

Programmer’s NotepadI have to agree that I’m one among the people who extensively use Windows Notepad either to take notes or little debugging / code editing etc. Windows Notepad can’t be much efficient choice when it comes to coding / debugging. Notepad does lack features that will increase the productivity of programmer / debugger.

Consider a case where you’re trying to fix an error in multi-nested loop. Notepad does fail here and it would consume few extra time than the time intended if we use good productivity tool. One among such tool is Programmer’s Notepad. It would increase your productivity by reducing the time taken.

PNotepad’s Code Folding feature comes in handy here. Code Folding is a feature that allows user to selectively display and hide section of currently edited file. The section can be either a fragment of code or function etc. This feature is available in most powerful text editor and IDE’s

See the screen shot below with code folding done for function second_page(). Also have a look at Text Clips in notepad area.

Programmer’s Notepad Screenshot

Programmer’s Notepad offers syntax highlighting for wide range of programming and markup language. Also it has Text-clips option to insert the predefined code-snippets for various languages. Programmer’s Notepad also has a simple project management interface to manage the files related to the projects.

Key Features -

  • Code Folding
  • Code / Syntax Highlighting
  • Project Management / Grouping
  • Regular expression search
  • Code Snippets
  • Tabbed multi-file support
  • Bookmarking
  • Export feature
  • Addon Support
  • and lot more…

Programmer’s Notepad is an open source project that is featured in SourceForce Programmer’s Notepad is a free to distribute under GPL license. Thanks to Simon Steele for Programmer’s Notepad

Bottom line, Programmer’s Notepad can’t be a replacement in high-end IDE’s but it can be a good replacement for Windows Notepad.

What is your choice?

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1.

ram said,

June 21, 2007 @ 8:29 pm

It seems to be a nice tool if you don’t have other IDE’s.
I use Dreamweaver 8.0

2.

benedict herold said,

June 21, 2007 @ 9:10 pm

Dreamweaver is good option when it comes to Web development!. Honestly, I can’t afford to pay for its license :-(

3.

Vijay said,

June 22, 2007 @ 1:18 am

Who does pay for license, I wonder? ;)

I use UltraEdit or Notepad2 for editing.

4.

Nirmal said,

June 22, 2007 @ 1:31 am

Looks good with its features. Will try it out as its open source. :-)

5.

Madhur Kapoor said,

June 22, 2007 @ 3:30 am

Good utility man but i prefer Notepad ++ . Have you tried it ?

6.

benedict herold said,

June 22, 2007 @ 8:46 am

Vijay – Agreed! But why do we need to use pirated software when we have alternative free open source available. I always give a thumbs up to Copyleft movement :-)

UltraEdit is feature rich editor. I use them at work :) I have to try Notepad2.

Nirmal – open source is the key again :-) lol

Madhur Kapoor – I haven’t tried yet. But the features seems promising for another notepad replacement.

7.

ram said,

June 22, 2007 @ 10:29 am

I too can’t afford it :-)

8.

Bush Mackel said,

June 23, 2007 @ 8:58 am

I wonder how this compares to Textpad? Anyone else use that?

9.

Shankar Ganesh said,

June 23, 2007 @ 10:02 am

Seems to be a nice tool. Though I’m not a programmer, I’ve tried Notepad++ earlier. Will try this one.. seems to be good.

10.

Speed Linking -3 at Technology Bites said,

June 24, 2007 @ 4:58 am

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11.

sindhu said,

June 24, 2007 @ 4:21 pm

i like notepad++ better.

12.

benedict herold said,

June 24, 2007 @ 9:16 pm

ram – hee. hee :-) BTW, Thanks for the link love!

Bush Mackel – TextPad seems to be good alternative. But TextPad is not a Freeware. I won’t be interested in paying for utility which is meant just for Notepad replacement :-) Do you?

Shankar Ganesh – This is not a tool for hardcore programmer though. It is best for novice user!. Notepad ++ is a good alternative too.

sindhu – Yep… I see lot of thumps up for Notepad ++. I have to give a try! BTW, thanks for stopping by.!

13.

ReviewSaurus said,

June 25, 2007 @ 1:57 am

@ Bush : I’ve used Textpad and it was good

@ Ben : EditPlus is also a nice and powerful editor. However, I’ve fallen in love with MetaPad, it doesn’t have those powerful features as Programmer’s notepad but still it is much better than notepad.

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benedict herold said,

June 25, 2007 @ 7:48 am

Mayank – Metapad is a great find; I fear of falling in love :-) EditPlus is a nice tool but not FREE :-( BTW, I have tried EditPad sometime back it is a great tool but again not FREE :-)

15.

Jake said,

June 25, 2007 @ 10:18 am

wow! this looks real neat… way better n notepad.

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benedict herold said,

June 26, 2007 @ 9:05 pm

Jake – Yes it is. Sure you need to try it. BTW, Thanks for stopping here. hope to see you around.

17.

Abhishek Kumar said,

June 27, 2007 @ 1:09 am

Not better than Notepad ++

18.

Vinod said,

June 27, 2007 @ 2:31 pm

one more to add to pspad and np++. Thanks.

19.

benedict herold said,

June 27, 2007 @ 2:36 pm

Wonderful guys… Good feedbacks so for to create a list. Thanks all :-)

20.

ram said,

June 27, 2007 @ 7:28 pm

Nice Idea, you can create a list with all these tools and publish it.

21.

ReviewSaurus said,

June 27, 2007 @ 9:24 pm

Yup go ahead and create a list, they rock and get maximum votes!

22.

benedict herold said,

June 28, 2007 @ 3:43 pm

I’m going by it. Thanks Ram and Mayank

23.

TechCorner » Top 5 Free Notepad replacements said,

June 30, 2007 @ 7:46 pm

[...] Couple of weeks back I wrote about my favorite notepad alternative and I asked my readers about their favorite too. Thanks to the readers who have given their views about their notepad alternative[...]

24.

TechZilo said,

July 10, 2007 @ 8:41 am

I havent used this – but can you compare this with Notepad++?

I’d like to move to Programmers notepad if it is better.

25.

benedict herold said,

July 10, 2007 @ 11:55 pm

Sumesh – It is more or less similar to Notepad++. But lot of people here seems to prefer Notepad++. My personal favorite is Programmer’s Notepad though :-)

26.

goldcoaster said,

July 31, 2007 @ 1:13 am

I have been using Programmers Notepad for a whil now. I find it great for getting into the xml from blogger templates.

27.

benedict herold said,

July 31, 2007 @ 11:39 am

goldcoaster – I knew there would be lot of people around like me :) BTW, great to have you here and come back!

28.

gmttzy said,

August 20, 2007 @ 2:36 am

Anyways Great site, Keep up the good work!

29.

benedict herold said,

August 25, 2007 @ 9:10 pm

gmttzy – Thank you. hope to see you around!

30.

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October 19, 2007 @ 9:52 am

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31.

Shaunak said,

April 17, 2009 @ 10:51 pm

I use both Notepad++ and PN.

I find Notepad ++ interface to be more refined on the whole. But PN comes bundled with WinAVR and had a menu option for loading HEX files into micros.

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