TextPad
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 Screenshot of TextPad |
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| Developer: | Helios Software Solutions |
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| Latest release: | 5.0 / March 3, 2007 |
| OS: | Microsoft Windows |
| Use: | Text editor |
| License: | Proprietary |
| Website: | www.textpad.com |
TextPad is a popular text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems.
First released in 1992, this software is currently in its fifth major version. It is produced by Helios Software Solutions. Version 5 was released on 3 March 2007.
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[edit] Key features
These include:
- the ability to maintain block indents
- automatic code indentation (see indent style)
- regular expression based search and replace, including multiline regex
- macro recording feature to facilitate complex text transformations and data processing.
- macro feature supports multiple regex searches (and replacements) within a macro
- syntax highlighting (extendable to many different languages)
- ability to call external programs (such as compilers)
- regex matching can be used to jump to a line number in a file given in the output from external programs (e.g. to locate the cause of a compiler error)
- large file support
- support for editing multiple files, with tabbed document selection
- block select mode
- synchronized scrolling of multiple files
- clip libraries - snippet management for reusable portions of text to insert into documents
As of version 5.0, TextPad is not Unicode compatible [1], even though it offers UTF-8 and UTF-16 as encodings in which files can be loaded and saved. TextPad 4.7.3 was the last version that could be installed in Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows ME.
[edit] Clip Library
The Clip Library is a TextPad sidebar that allows users to store small items persistently, and then use them easily. This is done by double clicking clip names in the Clip Library sidebar. In other editors such as Komodo, a clip library is known as 'snippets'.
TextPad comes with a number of pre-defined clip libraries, including ANSI chracters, HTML characters and HTML tags. A very useful clip library is the Clipboard History. This is a list of previous Clipboard contents. So even though the standard Windows Clipboard can only hold one piece of information, the TextPad Clipboard History Clip Library can access a whole history of entries. See also clipboard managers.
You can also create your own new clip libraries.
[edit] TextPad 5.0
In 2005, Helios stated on the TextPad forums [2] that the next version of TextPad was under development. TextPad 5.0 was released on 2007-03-03 and includes support for Windows Vista.
[edit] WildEdit
Helios program WildEdit is an interactive tool for power users to make the same changes to a set of text files in a folder hierarchy.
Full-featured trial versions of TextPad and WildEdit are available for evaluation, but neither program is advertised as shareware.
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