notepad2 VS Geany

Compare notepad2 vs Geany and see what are their differences.

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)

Geany

A fast and lightweight IDE (by geany)
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notepad2 Geany
7 90
2,233 2,965
- 1.5%
9.5 9.2
4 days ago about 7 hours ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

Geany

Posts with mentions or reviews of Geany. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-20.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing notepad2 and Geany 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:

thonny - Python IDE for beginners

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor

GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs

KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP

Vim - The official Vim repository

notepadqq - A simple, general-purpose editor for Linux

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+)

notepad-plus-plus - Notepad++ official repository

Nano

Brackets - An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.