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Notepad vs Notepad++
This article shows the difference between Notepad and Notepad++ (Notepad Plus).
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Notepad is a basic text editing program and it is most commonly used to view or edit text files. A text file is a file type typically identified by the .txt file name extension.
Open Notepad by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Programs, clicking Accessories, and then clicking Notepad.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. It runs in the MS Windows environment.
Based on a very powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. Its use is governed by GPL Licence.
Notepad++ supports syntax highlighting for ASP, Ada, ASCII art, Assembly, AutoIt (Limited support for AutoHotKey), BAT, C, C#, C++, Caml, CSS, doxygen, FORTRAN, HTML, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, KiXtart, Lisp, Lua, makefile, Matlab, Objective-C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Unix Shell Script, Smalltalk, SQL, Tcl, TeX, Verilog, VHDL, VB/VBScript, and XML.
Notepad (Microsoft Windows)
Notepad is a basic text editing program and it is most commonly used to view or edit text files. A text file is a file type typically identified by the .txt file name extension.
Open Notepad by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Programs, clicking Accessories, and then clicking Notepad.
Notepad++ (Donho)
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. It runs in the MS Windows environment.
Based on a very powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. Its use is governed by GPL Licence.
Notepad++ supports syntax highlighting for ASP, Ada, ASCII art, Assembly, AutoIt (Limited support for AutoHotKey), BAT, C, C#, C++, Caml, CSS, doxygen, FORTRAN, HTML, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, KiXtart, Lisp, Lua, makefile, Matlab, Objective-C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Unix Shell Script, Smalltalk, SQL, Tcl, TeX, Verilog, VHDL, VB/VBScript, and XML.
Notepad vs Notepad++
| Software name | Creator | Programming language used | Cost | Software license |
| Notepad | Microsoft | - | Bundled with Microsoft Windows | Proprietary |
| Notepad++ | Donho | C++ | Free | GPL |
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