Small, fast and free text editor. UTF-8 support and syntax highlighting.

The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills! Notepad2 tries to follow this principle, it's a small, fast and free text editor but with syntax highlighting and UTF-8 support.

Features:

• Customizable syntax highlighting:
  - HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, CSS, Perl/CGI
  - C/C++, C#, Java, VB, Pascal, Assembler, SQL, Python, NSIS
  - INI, REG, INF, BAT, DIFF
• Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2
• Basic regular expression search and replace
• Useful word, line and block editing shortcuts
• Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
• Brace matching, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
• Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files
• Open shell links
• Mostly adjustable

 
Real handy tool. Makes editing of text files / html / php / program code a lot simpler.