TextPad

Textpad is a general purpose editor for plain text files.

Features include:

• Can edit huge files: up to the limits of 32-bit virtual memory.
• Supports Universal Naming Convention (UNC) style names, and long file names with spaces.
• CUA compliant keyboard commands.
• English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish user interfaces.
• Spelling checker with dictionaries in 10 languages.
• Simultaneous edits with up to 2 views per file.
• Warm start feature: restart exactly where you left off.
• Cut, copy and paste clipboard capabilities.
• Text can be case shifted and block indented, and characters, words and lines can be transposed.
• Word-wrapped at the margin, or at a specified column.
• Split text into separate lines where wrapping occurs, or lines can be intelligently joined, preserving paragraphs.
• OLE2 drag and drop editing for copying and moving text between documents.
• Unlimited undo/redo capability.
• Block (column) selection mode.
• Visible display of tabs and spaces.
• A keystroke macro recorder, with up to 16 active macros.
• Sorting, using up to 3 keys.
• Text can be automatically aligned and indented, relative to the previous line, to aid block indentation.
• In-context menu.
• The cursor can be constrained to the text, or can be positioned freely in the document view.
• Toolbar with fly-by usage hints.
• Active status bar.
• Search/replace engine using UNIX-style regular expressions: files in a directory tree can be searched, and text can be replaced in all open documents at once.
• Incremental search toolbar for literal text.
• Visible bookmarks can be placed on individual lines, and on all occurrences of a search pattern.
• Built in file manager for fast file copying, renaming, deleting etc.
• Print previewing, and printing with customizable headers/footers and page breaks.
• Viewer for binary files using a hexadecimal display format.
• Built in file comparison utility, and up to 16 user-defined tools with argument macros.
• Hypertext links from file search and user tool output to the relevant source line.
• DDE interface to other tools, such as MS Visual C++.
• Detects file modification and prompts you to reopen it.
• Edit 16-bit Unicode, UTF-8 and 8-bit text files with single and double byte characters.
• DOS, UNIX, Macintosh, Netscape and mixed end of line characters are supported.
• Supports ANSI (Windows) or OEM (DOS) code sets.
• Single MDI window with up to 4 views for each document.
• Full range of fonts installed in MS Windows.
• Up to 32 tab stops can be defined, along with a default tab spacing, and an indent size.
• Up to 16 (user configurable) most recently used files are listed on the File menu.
• Up to 64 user-defined commands can be added to the Tools menu.
• Up to 64 keystroke macros can be added to the Macros menu.