Notepad2e vs BowPad

Notepad2e

Word highlighting, simultaneous editing, split views, math evaluation, un/grep, comment reformatting, UAC elevation, complete regexps (PCRE), Lua lexers, DPI awareness and more (XP+) (by ProgerXP)

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BowPad

A simple and fast text editor with a ribbon UI (by stefankueng)

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Notepad2e		BowPad
	Project
2	Mentions	3
360	Stars	574
-	Growth	-
7.7	Activity	7.4
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	24 days ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Notepad2e

Posts with mentions or reviews of Notepad2e. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-27.

Notepad2e
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2023
Is Notepad2 a dead project?
3 projects | /r/software | 27 May 2021

BowPad

Posts with mentions or reviews of BowPad. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-10.

asking for tips
2 projects | /r/software | 10 Apr 2023

You'll also need a text editor with syntax coloring. I use Bowpad but there are dozens out there.
Free Creative Software and Resources!
2 projects | /r/software | 31 Mar 2023

Bowpad is a nice code editor
BowPad: A native Windows text editor with a ribbon UI
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Notepad2e and BowPad you can also consider the following projects:

Notepad3 - Notepad like text editor based on the Scintilla source code. Notepad3 based on code from Notepad2 and MiniPath on code from metapath. Download Notepad3:

notepad-plus-plus - Notepad++ official repository

notepad2 - Notepad2-zufuliu is a light-weight Scintilla based text editor for Windows with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin metapath-zufuliu.

NotepadNext - A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++

HMT - HMT is a multi-text editor which provides you to interact with HMTL, Markdown, Inline and Internal CSS with a one-click preview system...😲😲😲

OpenRCT2 - An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 🎢

Cocos2d - Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.

processing - Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)