Notepad 2 [freeware]

[Tami]

The Story so far...

A few years ago, I found myself writing my first PHP projects using metapad. When I was looking around for text editors with syntax highlighting, I have come across the Scintilla source code editing component. I was very much impressed by this project, so I decided to create my own Scintilla-based text editor.

The result is [url=\"http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html\"][b]Notepad2[/b][/url], a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry.
New in Version 2.0.x

The most important changes in Notepad2 2.0.x compared with version 1.0.12 include support for ini-file storage of the program settings, modeless find and replace dialogs, multiline find and replace operations (using backslash expressions), optional file change notification, and many more.

There's also some regressions, i.e. ANSI code page support has been reduced to the system default, the bookmarks feature has been removed, a few syntax schemes have been dropped, and Notepad2 does no longer run on Windows 9x. If you need any of these features, you'll have to stick to Notepad2 version 1.0.12.

The full details of the change log can be found in the Notepad2 Readme File

[NightStorm]

Okay, I am really liking this program. Especially the code highlighting, HTML/XML code addition (you highlight a line or paragraph, and tell it what code you want it enclosed in) and configurable line wrapping (configurable, meaning you can tell it how many spaces to indent the line wrap).
I haven't used it much with php yet, but it makes parsing server and IRC logs SOOOO much easier. < /geek moment>
Of course, I couldn't just overwrite the actual Windows notepad.exe with this one (bloody File Protection) so I had to go through and change all the system shortcuts instead. This one is definately replacing the system default one though, one way or another.