Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. This project, based on the Scintilla edit component, written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program. Notepad++ supports the following languages: C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, javascript, RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS source files, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python and Lua.

Download: Notepad++ 5.8.6

Homepage: Notepad++

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It's difficult to keep up with the Notepad++ updates.

There were three for last month (November) alone -- 5.8.3, 5.8.4 & 5.8.5.

Though, that doesn't stop Don Ho's Notepad++ from being one of the best editors available.

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Agreed. I love his app and have it on every machine here. Even have it configured as my default editor in Filezilla and for use with several other apps.

I use it for very mild Python programming (I'm a noob) and a little XHTML and CSS - really nice free app. The bin.7z version is simple to install and update.

When I used Windows, I used to use Notepad++. For stuff like HTML, PHP, etc.

Sometime if I am ever on Windows, then I use Notepad++.

It is nice that it has line numbers and syntax highlighting.

Maybe its a bit feature-creep some would say.

On Linux these days, I just use gedit.