Notepad++ is a free source code editor which includes support for several programming languages.

This utility is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. It can also be utilized as a regular text editor making it a well-rounded app.

Notepad++ includes features like WYSIWYG, user-defined syntax highlighting, multi-document tabs, regular expression search/replace, drag n' drop, a dynamic position of views, file status auto-detection, brace and indent guideline highlighting, bookmarking and macro recording/playback.