# Notepad3 [![Build status](https://img.shields.io/appveyor/ci/rizonesoft/notepad3/master.svg)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rizonesoft/notepad3/branch/master) [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-BSD%203--Clause-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause) [![](https://img.shields.io/badge/Donate-PayPal-blue.svg)](https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=7UGGCSDUZJPFE) Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting. It has a small memory footprint, but is powerful enough to handle most programming jobs. [Download Notepad3 here](https://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/notepad3). > *Notepad3 is based on code from Florian Balmer's Notepad2 and XhmikosR's Notepad2-mod. MiniPath is based on code from Florian Balmer's metapath.* ## Important links! * Download page - https://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/notepad3 * Latest changelog (release notes) - https://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/notepad3/update * Full changelog (all versions/builds) - [Notepad3 - Full Changelog](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/master/Build/Changes.txt) * Documentation - https://www.rizonesoft.com/documents/notepad3 ## Rizonesoft Support * **[GET IN TOUCH](https://www.rizonesoft.com/#contact)** * **Premium Support** - On Rizonesoft, support is free and we will assist you the best we can. Please be patient when contacting us; there are mainly volunteers working on Rizonesoft projects, and time is a precious commodity. ## Changes compared to Flo's official [Notepad2](https://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html) (made in [Notepad2-mod](https://xhmikosr.github.io/notepad2-mod/)): * Code folding * Support for bookmarks * Option to mark all occurrences of a word * Updated Scintilla component * Word auto-completion * Syntax highlighting support for AutoHotkey (AHK), AutoIt3, AviSynth, Bash, CMake, CoffeeScript, Inno Setup, LaTeX, Lua, Markdown, NSIS, Ruby, Tcl, YAML and VHDL scripts. * Improved support for NFO ANSI art * Other various minor changes and tweaks ## Changes compared to the Notepad2-mod fork: * Additional syntax highlighting support for Awk, D, golang, MATLAB * Regular Expression search engine ([Oniguruma](https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma)) * New toolbar icons based on Yusuke Kamiyaman's Fugue Icons (purchased by [Rizonesoft](https://www.rizonesoft.com)) * Hyperlink hotspot highlighting (single-click Open in Browser (Ctrl) / Load in Editor (Alt) * Syntax highlighting support for D Source Script, Go Source Script, JSON, Makefiles, MATLAB, Nim Source Code, Power Shell Script, Resource Script, Shell Script * New program icon and other small cosmetic changes * In-App support for AES-256 Rijndael encryption/decryption of files (incl. external command line tool for batch processing) * Virtual space rectangular selection box (Alt-key down) * High-DPI awareness, including high definition toolbar icons * Undo/Redo preserves selection * File history preserves caret position (optional) and remembers encoding of file * Accelerated word navigation * Preserve caret position of items in file history * Count occurrences of a marked selection or word * Count and mark occurrences of matching search/find expression * Visual Studio style copy/paste current line (no selection) * Insert GUIDs * Dropped support for Windows XP * Other various minor changes, tweaks, and bugfixes ## Supported Operating Systems: * Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and 11 (both 32-bit and 64-bit)
# References Seen on Nsane Forums: [Notepad3 is an advanced text editor...](https://www.nsaneforums.com/topic/382910-guidereview-notepad3-is-an-advanced-text-editor-that-supports-many-programming-languages/), a review of **Notepad3** posted by the moderator [Karston](https://www.nsaneforums.com/profile/12756-karlston/) at [nsane.forums](https://www.nsaneforums.com/). **Notepad3's review**: **[Notepad3 is an advanced text editor that supports many programming languages](https://www.ghacks.net/2020/08/11/notepad3-is-an-advanced-text-editor-that-supports-many-programming-languages/)**.
# **Notepad3 Settings (Notepad3.ini)** ## **`[Notepad3]`** This section can be used to redirect to a settings file which will be used by Notepad3. If a non-elevated user is not allowed to write to the program directory of Notepad3.exe, the side-by-side Notepad3.ini can point to a place where the user is allowed to write their settings, for example: `Notepad3.ini=%APPDATA%\Rizonesoft\Notepad3\Notepad3.ini` or a to have user-specific settings: `Notepad3.ini=%WINDIR%\Notepad3-%USERNAME%.ini` ## **`[Settings]`** These settings are read and written by Notepad3’s user interface. For example, all Menu ? Settings will go here. #### `SettingsVersion=5` #### `Favorites=%APPDATA%\Rizonesoft\Notepad3\Favorites\` ## **`[Settings2]`** This section offers some advanced Notepad3 program settings, and can only be edited manually. Press Ctrl+F7 to open the Notepad3 ini-file. Most changes only take effect upon restarting Notepad3. #### `PreferredLanguageLocaleName=en-US` The default value for the already supported languages is defined by the: “OS language setting”. - The fallback is: “en-US”. ##### Available languages: ``` English/United States (en-US) (internal default) Afrikaans/South Africa (af-ZA) Belarusian/Belarus (be-BY) German/Germany (de-DE) Greek/Greece (el-GR) English/United Kingdom (en-GB) Spanish/Spain (es-ES) French/France (fr-FR) Hindi/India (hi-IN) Hungarian/Hungary (hu-HU) Indonesian/Indonesia (id-ID) Italian/Italy (it-IT) Japanese/Japan (ja-JP) Korean/Korea (ko-KR) Dutch/Netherlands (nl-NL) Polish/Poland (pl-PL) Portuguese/Brazil (pt-BR) Portuguese/Portugal (pt-PT) Russian/Russia (ru/RU) Slovak/Slovakia (sk-SK) Swedish/Sweden (sv-SE) Turkish/Turkey (tr-TR) Vietnamese/Vietnam (vi-VN) Chinese Simplified/China (zh-CN) Chinese Traditional/Taiwan (zh-TW) ``` #### `IMEInteraction=0` #### `DateTimeFormat=` - (-> (Locale dependent short format) #### `DateTimeLongFormat=` - (-> (Locale dependent long format) Specify the short/long date and time formats. This is the format parameter passed to the `strftime()` function. Note that the locale will be set to English (because of the English Visual C++ Run-time Library used by Notepad3). #### `TimeStampRegEx=` - (-> \$Date:[^\$]+\$) (Find-Pattern to Update Stamps) #### `TimeStampFormat=` - (-> \\$Date:[^\\$]+\\$ | $Date: %Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S $ - (-> $Date: %s $) (Print format should fit to TimeStampRegEx) This parameter is used as a regex pattern to match time-stamps which will be updated to current date-time by `Shift+F5`, e.g. `$Date: 2018/04/26 00:52:39 $` - Default `DateTime` formats are: 1. SHORT: `[Settings2] DateTimeFormat=` (empty) - Notepad3's language locale short '