Text Utilities

Notepad2

• No installation and does not touch the registry, saves all setting to a .ini file
  
• Based on scintilla editing component
  
• Zooming of text, Syntax highlighting, auto tag closing for HTML and XML
  
• Transparent mode is one of its unique features
  

Notepad++

• No installation and doesn't touch the registry, saves all setting in .ini file
  
• Based on scintilla editing component
  
• Zooming of text, Syntax highlighting, auto tag closing for HTML and XML
  
• Addons available for spell-checking, HTML page validation, Integrated explorer, File comparator, execution of file from editor, Function list, Hex editor...so many
  

Textpad

• Not a freeware
  
• Comes with more options than mentioned above
  
• But when it comes to opening/editing/searching big files, textpad prevails over rest
  
• Capable of searching files using reg-exs and within folders recursively