Freeze 'n' Breeze

When Microsoft release its new OS every time there are couple of application which are most used by the people never changes or improves (Any Guess !!!). Yup! Its Paint and Notepad which people uses in day to day life. With respect to performance it sucks! Try loading a 15MB file in a notepad and check out its performance .

where as Notepad++ is a free (free as in “free speech”, but also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

In My case i need to load an 100MB file where it loads in a couple of second and the searching speed is excellent.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

This project is mature. However, as you can see it’s a one-man-project, there are still some bugs and missing features. If you have any question or suggestion about this project, please post them on the forums.

Here are the features of Notepad++ :

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
WYSIWYG
User Defined Syntax Highlighting
Auto-completion
Multi-Document
Multi-View
Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported
Dynamic position of Views
File Status Auto-detection
Zoom in and zoom out
Multi-Language environment supported
Bookmark
Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
Macro recording and playback

Source :http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

For MS Paint Alternative ,wait till the next post.