Wow, I’m caught between them.  I just love the multiple tab interface and being able to split windows in Notepad++. But to close a tab you have to go up and click an item in the left hand part of the toolbar, as opposed to the de-facto standard of having the tab close button to the right of the tabs.  So half the time I end up closing the whole app down on accident. The non-standard search and replace window also throws me sometimes.

Notepad2 is definitely a prettier application with most of the same functionality, just packaged a little bit better.  Unfortunately there are no tabs and no way to split the a window.

I suppose I’ll just have to live with Notepad++ for now.  It’s a great application, it just needs a little gui work.