While at PDC a couple weeks ago, I saw some demos where they were showing config files, source code, etc. with a text editor that *looked* like Notepad, but had syntax highlighting, etc. The title bar gave it away - "Notepad2".

A quick google search turns up Notepad2 here.

...and there are a bunch of blogs talking about it, with some interesting ideas on how to use it as a replacement to the standard Windows Notepad. (apparently the Windows OS will "repair" your system and put back the old Notepad if you just replace notepad.exe with a renamed notepad2.exe)

A couple links:
Fritz Onion

from a comment to Fritz's post:
To get it to be a complete replacement of Notepad.exe (removing Windows desire to "repair" your "broken" Notepad)

copy notepad2.exe c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386\notepad.exe
copy notepad2.exe c:\windows\system32\dllcache\notepad.exe
copy notepad2.exe c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe
copy notepad2.exe c:\windows\notepad.exe

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