NoteTab Light 5.7

Publisher's description of NoteTab Light

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NoteTab Light is a versatile free Notepad replacement and a handy HTML editor. Move quickly around stacks of large files with a simple tabbed interface and format your text to your heart's content. Perform system-wide search and replacements. Strip HTML tags. Build libraries of text macros to speed up your work. Avoid tedious cut-and-paste operations - save text clips automatically in Paste Board files. Make the most of NoteTab's options to suit your workstyle.

Version 5.7 improves accessibility, Strip HTML Tags feature, USB key support, PCRE regular expressions engine.

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Editor's review of NoteTab Light

Once you explore the power of NoteTab Light, you may find this text editor beautiful despite its hectic interface. At its core, NoteTab Light is to Windows' Notepad as an iPhone is to a rotary phone. NoteTab Light incorporates top-level tabs similar to most Web browsers, so that you can manage several different projects at once, and it can automatically replace Notepad so that Notepad's icons open NoteTab instead--although not in Windows Vista.

However, it's more than a mere replacement. The left column displays a list of commands, called Clips, that do anything from inserting bits of text to generating code. Each library, the roster of which appears as tabs at the bottom of the screen, contains its own set of clips. The FTP library, for example, lets you create server profiles, connect, upload and download files, and issue various commands. The HTML library auto-completes HTML tags. The publisher's site offers many user-created libraries, or you can make your own. You can create your own clips by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2.

Several of the clips, including the Tidy HTML clip and the TopStyle library, require secondary freeware apps to support them, but NoteTab will direct you to their Web pages if it finds them missing. NoteTab Light isn't a tool for casual users, but power users and programmers should find plenty to love.

User reviews of NoteTab Light

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  NoteTab Light

  My Favorite Text Editor

  by: kmich411 on 30-Jul-2008 08:35:11 PM

  Pros: I've tried all of the major Text Editor options and keep coming back to NoteTab. It's simple if you want it to be; robust if need it to be. It's tabbed and you can search across tabs. Low memory usage. Easy to associate with any file type you want.

  Cons: I honestly can't think of anything I dislike about NoteTab Light.

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  NoteTab Light

  HTML wonder-tool - I never use anything else

  by: exception_al on 03-Aug-2008 03:05:45 AM

  Pros: Easy to save templates - own clipbooks simple to construct - large changes, often across many files, made easy - rarely anything difficult to understand - beats the pants off DreamWeaver for HTML development; you can have all your files available whilst you work.

  Cons: Some complex undo's not possible whilst others are.

  I would occasionally like to visualise invisible characters - paragraph, new line, etc (probably impossible in a text-based editor)

  (These are only tiny niggles, easily surmountable.)

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  NoteTab Light

  Truly powerful windows text editor

  by: on 24-Jul-2008 12:56:10 PM

  Pros: This is a remarkably feature-rich and highly reliable text editor. It is an excellent replacement for notepad and can do much more. I believe that there are better programmer's editors and perhaps better HTML and XML editors, but as a general purpose Windows oriented text editor, this one is the most impressive I've seen.

  Cons: One niggling point - I liked the old print page setup better. It allowed more font size choices and could be invoked directly from the print dialog box.

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  NoteTab Light

  Excelente

  by: on 31-Jul-2008 05:27:31 PM

  Pros: Un editor verdaderamente poderoso. Automatizar procesos de programación es fácil y permite tareas inimaginables para otros editores de texto. Es mi mano derecha en programación de HTML

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  NoteTab Light

  Great, except for product taking over Notepad in Vista

  by: pugboy75 on 30-Jul-2008 06:21:20 PM

  Pros: Very small and light.
  Great, and highly useful, editing tools.
  Wonderful customization options.
  Has the option to remember ever "Tab" (text file open) when you close the program - think Firefox.

  Cons: No matter what I try, NoteTab Light does not "take over" the file association rights from Notepad in Vista. I even manually changed .txt files to open in NoteTab and it still doesn't work right.

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