Mar 8, 2023 · Each time I create a new file in Notepad2, the encoding is ANSI (1252). I'd like instead to have UTF-8 as default. Is there a way to get this ?

Mar 9, 2023 · A related question is How to set Notepad2 to use UTF-8 instead of ANSI, but that question is about default character encoding rather than the default newline type.

I use Notepad2. I love Notepad2. How do I replace Notepad with Notepad2 in Windows 7, so I never use the old version of Notepad again?

Apr 9, 2017 · I tried Notepad2's 'Replace Text' function, but I don't know what to put in the 'Replace with' field. The OS I'm using is Windows 7.

They're both freeware or open source so why don't you download and install them both and try them out to see which one you like the best. I'm using Notepad++ myself, but that's purely because someone recommended it to me. If they'd recommended Notepad2 then …

Nov 26, 2015 · Normally I'd do a search and replace for "\\n" but that doesn't seem to work. I think it might by ^(something) but can't remember what. Note this is question is directed at Notepad, not Notepad++...

I love Notepad2, but the one thing that is starting to make me want to ditch it is the horizontal scrolling quirk that prevents you from using the scrollbar to scroll all the way out to the right in text files with very long lines.

Consider the scenario where you have a specific string that you want to find-and-replace. You want to replace it with a new string that contains a newline character (or character sequence). abc123

Oct 24, 2017 · How do I get it to spell check all-caps words? I know it prolly doesn't check them (hopefully just by default), cuz it assumes they're acronyms, but I use all all-caps to emphasize words in text that has no italics, bold or underline font effects (like most sm posts / replies and of course "plain text", the latter being precisely the type of text for which Notepad++ is an editor)

Notepad2, by default, doesn't recognize multiple lines, so it ends up removing almost the entire text. I could craft my own harrowing regex string to look for newline characters, but I am looking for a simpler approach.