Notepad saves a file in .txt format. By using Print to PDF and Save As options, you can save it as PDF and HTML in Windows 11/10.

Notepad2 offers syntax highlighting, which makes coding much easier. The one downside to Notepad2 is that it doesn’t support tabs, when it comes to opening multiple files.

Notepad++ is a portable notepad that users like computer programmers will find enormously useful, because it offers something the regular Notepad doesn’t: numbered lines.

In case you missed it, Microsoft resurrected the old XML Notepad last year. The new version, XML Notepad 2007, is a .NET 2.0 application for which source code is available on CodePlex. I find it ...