notepad2 vs Notepad2e

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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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)

Notepad C++ Scintilla Windows

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notepad2		Notepad2e
	Project
7	Mentions	2
2,263	Stars	360
-	Growth	-
9.5	Activity	7.7
3 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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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.

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.

Buffer Overflows in Notepad++
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2023

My search for "notepad2" came up with https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2, which sees routine changes: https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2/commits/main
Quick, Invisible Note Taking ?
2 projects | /r/NoteTaking | 26 Apr 2023

Notepad2: https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2 (set it to minimize to system tray and autosave your file)
There's anyway to get the notepad from w11 on w10?
2 projects | /r/Windows10 | 22 Aug 2022
Notepad Next
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2022

There have been a series of forks, for example: https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2
They seem to add a lot of features, though ... I'd be interested to find a more minimal one, which mostly just updates language syntaxes and OS support, and the thankless minor bug squashing ...
3 things I don't like about the new Paint
1 project | /r/Windows11 | 13 Dec 2021
Is Notepad2 a dead project?
3 projects | /r/software | 27 May 2021
Still the least practical Find dialog of them all
1 project | /r/Windows10 | 6 Feb 2021

I use https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing notepad2 and Notepad2e 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:

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

BowPad - A simple and fast text editor with a ribbon UI

macvim - Vim - the text editor - for macOS

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.

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

geany-jedi-complete - a Geany plugin to provide code completion (Python) using jedi