Notepad3

Rizonesoft · Rizonesoft.Notepad3

Notepad like text editor based on the Scintilla source code.

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.

winget install --id Rizonesoft.Notepad3 --exact --source winget

Latest 7.26.602.1

Release Notes

NEW:

  • Bug-Report and Feature Request issue templates (#5915).
  • Custom coloring non printable characters (#5900).
  • Smart hotkey Ctrl+N and Alt+L in case of existing file under caret/selection (#5895).
  • Open file/folder from selection + bare-path hyperlink hotspots (#5885).
  • Open Containing Folder (sel) and Open File from Selection (#5884).
  • Copy as RTF (Rich-Text-Format) - keeps syntax highlighting (#5881).
  • Open hyperlink in background via Ctrl+Shift+LClick (#5880).
  • Documentation for customizing themes (#5867).
  • AHK v2 Lexer, fixing existing AHK_L lexer (LEX) (#5860).
  • Add HotStringOption to AHK lexer (LEX) (#5860).
  • Option to show non-print characters (#5850).
  • Hex/binary status-bar output modes with click-to-copy and binary literal input (TIN) (#5834).
  • Matching braces (Ctrl+B and with selection Ctrl+Shift+B) inside blocks (#5819).
  • Add homebrew JSON5 lexer (#5796).

CHANGES:

  • TinyExpr++ render logical results as "true"/"false (TIN) (#5914).
  • TinyExpr++ description of single = is parsed as == (TIN) (#5912).
  • Refactor multi-selection expression evaluation logic (#5872).
  • Code-cleanup and hardening (#5863).
  • grepWin, pass target directory on command line instead of via INI (GRE) (#5857).
  • Polish "Page Setup..." dialog (#5834).
  • Extend navigation documentation (#5834).
  • Moving all *.txt files to Docs folder (for Setup, PAF and Portable) (#5811).
  • InfBoxLng for saving files (#5806).
  • Github actions: no build on doc change only (#5798).
  • Extend and cleanup documentation (#5797).
  • Update to Scintilla v5.6.2 , Lexilla v5.4.9 (#5796).
  • Breaking change: drop Regex file extension pattern in favor of usual wildcard (#5793).

FIXES:

  • Incr/decr number handler, support bin, keep hex cases (#5883).
  • Drag&drop files - temp handling (immediate deleted on drop) (#5863).
  • AHK case insensitive (LEX) (#5860).
  • Lexer AHK_L minor issues (LEX) (#5860).
  • Enhance existing homebrew AHK lexer (LEX) (#5860).
  • Small optimization of PCRE2 regEx backward search (PCR) (#5836).
  • Modernize and align Lexilla lib related Style-Lexers definitions (LEX) (#5836).
  • Hardening of JSON5 lexer (#5843).
  • Small correction of factory default position (#5836).
  • Minor fixes for change-history navigation (#5834).
  • Skip paste board minimizing if nothing to paste (#5831).
  • Modern print dialog, fixing minor issues (#5831).
  • Hardening of INI file handling for multi instances workflows (#5810).
  • MRU file history, bookmark, caret pos, selection maintenance (#5810).
  • Find/replace pattern history (#5808).
  • Buffer handling consistency (#5806).
  • Using help dialog of natural size with vertical scroll-bar (#5805).
  • Misleading code-page detection not install in system throws error on file loading (#5802).
  • Multi-line InfoBox issue (#5800).
  • File extension wildcard lexer matching (#5799).
  • Dynamic sizing of InfoboxLng (#5794).
  • ".LOG" feature + enhancements around file-vars + docs (#5791).
  • InfoBoxLng proportional dynamic sizing (#5790).
  • About requester show ARM compilation, missing file path on open non-existent file (#5790).

REMOVED:

  • HTML CSS styling trial artefacts (LEX) (#5860).
  • Readme* from ANSI-Art extension (-> README.md) (#5800).
  • Revert experimental CSS styling for HTML Lexer (#5787).

CHANGES Versions in Tools or Libraries:

  • Update Scintilla (SCI) Library version 5.6.2 (2026-04-29) (#5796).
  • Update Lexilla (LEX) Library version 5.4.9 (2026-04-29) (#5796).
  • Update TinyExpr++ (TIN) version 1.1.0 (2026-01-16) (#5707).
  • Update grepWin (GRE) version 2.1.12.1434 (2025-09-24) (#5635).
  • Update UCHARDET (UCH) encoding detector version 0.0.8 (2022-12-08) (#5562).
  • Update PCR2 (PCR) Regex engine version 10.47 (2025-10-21) (#5559).
  • Update MiniPath (MIN) version 1.0.2.191 (2022-12-13) (#4359).

TRANSLATIONS (MUI):

Installer type: inno

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Details

Homepage
https://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/notepad3/
License
Freeware
Publisher
Rizonesoft
Support
https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/issues
Copyright
Copyright © 2008-2026 Rizonesoft

Tags

codecodingeditingeditorprogramming

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