EditPad
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| EditPad | |
 EditPad Pro on Windows XP |
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| Maintainer: | Just Great Software, Inc. |
| Stable release: | 6.1.2 (October 27, 2006) [+/-] |
| Preview release: | None () [+/-] |
| OS: | Windows, GNU/Linux |
| Use: | Text editor |
| License: | Proprietary |
| Website: | www.editpadpro.com |
EditPad is a text editor and source code editor for Windows and Linux, developed since 1996 by Jan Goyvaerts. EditPad has a look and interface similar to that of Notepad, but with much extended functionality. Like Notepad, EditPad has been designed to be small and quick.
There are two editions of EditPad:
- EditPad Lite. Freeware (for non-commercial usage only.)
- EditPad Pro. Shareware ($49.95 after a 30-day evaluation period.) Comes with various extra features.
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[edit] Features
EditPad Lite has all of the features Notepad has, with many additions. Some of its features are:
- Opens files of unlimited size
- Can open any number of files simultaneously, with a tabbed interface
- Search and replace, with many additional flags
- Supports national alphabets (Cyrillics, Greek, Turkish etc.) even on old versions of Windows
- Unlimited undo and redo
- Customized print settings (portrait/landscape mode, margins, fonts etc.)
- Performs conversions between different formats
- between ANSI, OEM, and Unicode
- between uppercase, lowercase and first letter caps
- between DOS/Windows (CR+LF), Unix (CR) and Mac (LF) formats
- ROT13
- Optional autoindent and line numbering. This option is set for each filetype individually.
- Can indent parts of the file
- Minimizes to system tray
For text and HTML files, URLs are displayed in blue and can be clicked to open them with the default browser.
EditPad Pro has the features of EditPad Lite, plus many additional ones:
- Syntax highlighting
- Regular expressions
- Spell checker
- Document comparison with a number of output options (similar to diff)
- Email support
- Tools for opening many documents at once (projects, etc.)
- Hexadecimal editor for binary files
- User can write scripts
- Sort lines
- Bookmarks
- Clip collection (text and code snippets)
[edit] Tips
If a national alphabet does not display correctly, the problem can be solved by choosing Options|Font and selecting the correct Script.
[edit] Criticism from users
- EditPad Lite does not support regular expressions. This is unusual for a modern freeware text editor. (As for August 2, 2006, 22 of the 24 other free or freeware editors for MS Windows taken from the Comparison of text editors page, support regular expressions. Only Metapad and TED Notepad do not.)
- The keyboard shortcut for Redo is coded to be Ctrl-R, whereas many Windows applications (such as Microsoft Word) use Ctrl-Y. Ctrl-Y in EditPad is instead used for "delete line," although the keyboard shortcuts can be redefined in EditPad Pro (but not Lite).
