TextPad 5.03

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TextPad is a full-featured text editor offering a spelling checker, macros, and powerful formatting and file-storage options. TextPad has been implemented according to the Windows XP user interface guidelines, so great attention has been paid to making it easy for both beginners and experienced users. In-context help is available for all commands, and in-context menus pop up with the right mouse button. The Windows multiple-document interface allows multiple files to be edited simultaneously, with up to two views on each file. Text can be dragged and dropped among files.

In addition to using the usual cut-and-paste capabilities, you can correct the most common typing errors with commands to change case, and you can transpose words, characters, and lines. Other commands let you indent blocks of text, split or join lines, and insert whole files. Any change can be undone or redone, right back to the first change made. Visible bookmarks can be put on lines, and edit commands can be applied to lines with bookmarks.

Frequently used combinations of commands can be saved as keystroke macros, and the spelling checker has dictionaries for 10 languages. It also has a customizable tools menu, and integral file-compare and -search commands, with hypertext jumps from the matched text to the corresponding line in the source file (ideal for integrating compilers). Version 5.03 includes unspecified updates.

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  TextPad

  Excellent text editor

  by: c l edwards on 22-Oct-2007 07:35:35 AM

  Pros: Ease of use; user friendly screens

  Cons: Find and replace is not as straightforward as it could be.

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  TextPad

  Nice one,

  by: corexin on 13-Aug-2008 06:02:13 PM

  Pros: Have been using it since my first IT job, to be honest, can not change to other editor anymore.

  Tried a few times e.g. CrimEditor, EditPlus, after a while find it inconvenient to use, I may stuck with TextPad, but its good, didn't find anything too bad yet.

  F5- Search, as long as get used to it, its OK :)

  Regular Expression is Cool, I can not run regular expression freely on other editro.

  used to use it load 500M text file, no problem, just a bit slow as expected.

  Anyway stuck with the good editor :)

  Cons: F5 - search, why not follow windows standard ????

  F8 - replace???? same issue.

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  TextPad

  my favorite

  by: mike_is_here on 06-Aug-2008 04:20:34 PM

  Pros: once you start with this editor, its hard to change to another.

  Cons: seems to falling a bit behind now; few updates recently; needs a bunch of new features to keep up with today's standards (e.g. unicode)

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  TextPad

  Solid Light-Weight Text Editor

  by: Tyrven on 23-May-2008 07:46:18 PM

  Pros: Small footprint. Reasonably configurable. Popular features: indenting, regex replaces, syntax highlighting, clip libraries, document type specific preferences, etc. Plugins/add-ons for most popular languages (SQL, Java, C#, XML, XSL, XHTML, PHP, JS, CSS, C++, Ruby, etc).

  Cons: No collapsing/grouping of code/markup.

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  TextPad

  Excellent tool

  by: sanojshivan on 13-May-2008 05:38:43 PM

  Pros: A good upgrade from Notepad / Wordpad

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