Notepad

n. pad of writing paper

n. very basic text editor program (manufactured by Microsoft)

Notepad is a simple text editor included with all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0 in 1985.
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Notepad+ is a text editor for Windows PC systems intended as a replacement for the default Notepad editor. It was developed by Rogier Meurs of RogSoft and first released in 1996. At that time Notepad on Windows 95 was very limited in its facilities and could only open files up to 64 kibibytes. Notepad+ removed that limitation and added many new features.
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Notepad++ is a free source code editor that supports several programming languages running under the Windows environment. The project is hosted on SourceForge.net, from where it has been downloaded over five million times.This project, based on the Scintilla editor component, is written in C++ with pure Win32 API calls and uses STL. Notepad++ is free software released under the GNU General Public License. The aim of Notepad++ is to offer a slim and efficient binary with a totally customizable GUI.
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Noun
1. a pad of paper for keeping notes
(hypernym) pad, pad of paper, tablet
(hyponym) scratch pad, scratch paper, scribbling block

<text, tool> The very basic text editor supplied with Microsoft Windows.
(1998-01-05)

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