Notepad3 VS notepad2

Compare Notepad3 vs notepad2 and see what are their differences.

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: (by rizonesoft)

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. (by zufuliu)
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Notepad3 notepad2
9 7
4,638 2,263
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9.6 9.5
10 days ago 5 days ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Notepad3

Posts with mentions or reviews of Notepad3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-07.

notepad2

Posts with mentions or reviews of notepad2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Notepad3 and notepad2 you can also consider the following projects:

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

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+)

simdjson - Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second : used by Facebook/Meta Velox, the Node.js runtime, ClickHouse, WatermelonDB, Apache Doris, Milvus, StarRocks

notepad-plus-plus - Notepad++ official repository

deepC - vendor independent TinyML deep learning library, compiler and inference framework microcomputers and micro-controllers

winget-pkgs - The Microsoft community Windows Package Manager manifest repository

macvim - Vim - the text editor - for macOS

how-to-exit-vim - Below are some simple methods for exiting vim.

textadept - Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers.