“Text editing on the move”

If you like Notepad++, you'll love Notepad++ Portable. It keeps the same great functionality of its big brother, but in a new edition specially designed to be stored and used in a USB memory key.

Once installed, the application hardly takes 2 MB of space, so it's suitable even for the smallest removable drives. During our tests, we didn't miss anything from good ol' Notepad++: support for dozens of coding languages and several text file formats, syntax highlighting, ability to open multiple documents simultaneously and lots of extra tools.

The only downside to this great little application, if we're to find any, is the fact that you have to download spelling files apart if you want to use the spellcheck. Apart from that, Notepac++ Portable is probably one of the best text editors available… and you can carry around in your pocket!

Languages:

English

Recent changes in Notepad++ Portable:

Add smart highlighting feature (double click a word to highlight all the same word in the document).
Enhance visual effect of Mark all feature.
Enhance Incremental search dialog docking.
Enhance Incremental search : add Highlight all feature.
Add auto-hide menu feature (IE7 style menu - Alt or F10 to toggle).
Enhance tool bar GUI usability (display a chevron while some tool icons hidden).
Add style transparency feature, right click on color to enable.
Fix the files not opening by DnD bug.
Enhance Find Replace dialog : Add "Extended" option - search (and replace) for tabs(\t), newline(\n\r), and a characters by it's value (\o, \x, \b, \d, \t, \n, \r and \\).
Bug fixed : Find dialog always scrolls text into view now.
Add places bar in save as dialog.
Fix non-recognized relative path bug in command line mode (under Dos prompt).
Add 2 messages for doc monitor plugin.
Fix the transparency bug (in Styler Configurator).
Make search in hidden directory (for Find in files) optional.
Fix the replace bug while replacing nothing.
Fix the F3 searching direction bug.

OS requirements for Notepad++ Portable:

OS: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP

Pros

Support for many coding languages
Lots of extra tools to write and code

Cons

You have to download necessary files for spellcheck

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Notepad++ Portable is the handy Notepad++ text editor packaged as a portable app so you can do your development on the go. It has all the same great features of Notepad++ including support for multiple languages and an extensive plugin system, but there's nothing to install.