Each line of text is numbered while hitting the CTRL key along with scrolling with the mouse wheel allows you to zoom into text. Comparing text between different documents is therefore a simple job and done easily by switching between tabs.

Notepad++ features a tabbed layout, which makes it ideal for working with multiple open files at the same time. It is excellent for both writing text and editing different types of code such as HTML, PHP or C. Notepad++ is an excellent text and code editor which is distributed completely free of charge both as freeware and as an open source product.