![]() I probably managed to make a very good choice, even if I do not know what I may have missed in some of the others. The somewhat involved configuration options require at least medium computer literary, but the options are very useful. The configuration option "Send to menu" is convenient, since by invoking it one does not have to edit all one's file associations. After installing, I noticed some further nice facets. ![]() ![]() I chose EditPad Lite to try since it has file tabs and most importantly it supports a lot of different text encodings which is crucial for a European and a user who also has much old DOS text files occasionally to deal with. It took some SnapFiles reading and even Googling to decide which one to try out. The problem with text editors is that there are so many to choose from. The spell checker works together with the syntax. You can easily check the spelling of a single file or even all files currently open. EditPad Pro is just as easy to use as EditPad Lite. Though EditPad Pro has a lot more functionality, it will not get into your way. I wanted something in freeware between my regular, programmable shareware The SemWare Editor and Windows' own Notepad. Everything you can do with Lite, you can do with Pro. And it should be more than enough for you too. Until then though, EditPad is the only text editor for me. (And by 'create''edit''handle' RTF files, obviously I mean bold/italic/underline/strikethrough font types, left/centre/right/fully justified pages, with indenting and image embedding - like all the other features of Wordpad I wish it could also replace). Oh, if only they read the reviews on SnapFiles. Oh, how I wish the dev(s) had thought to make it create/edit RTF files before it was too late. Then I'll drop it faster than an ugly baby and pretend I never loved it really, because I'm fickle, but secretly I'll feel guilty and think "Oh, if only EditPad had been able to handle RTF files too, I'd never have turned away from it. That's what I'm doing until I finally find a portable, tabbed editor with all the strengths of EditPad that also edits RTF files. Don't waste your time, stick with EditPad. The first three are shown here (the last two are the classic Agree to License and installation Complete windows). The person who wrote it tells lies (and makes the baby Jesus cry). You will see another review here, suggesting that another app (Metapad) does edit RTF files. If you use EditPad Lite at home or at school for purposes that don't generate money, you can download the free version of EditPad Lite without any kind of payment or registration.ĭownload: EditPad Lite 7.1.2 | 9.The only thing that prevents me from rating it 5 stars for features is that it doesn't handle RTF (Rich Text Format) files. Powerful search-and-replace with literal search terms and regular expressions that can span multiple lines.ĮditPad Lite is free for personal use only. Unlimited undo and redo for all open files, even after saving.Īutomatic backup and working copies prevent data loss. Tabbed interface for working with many files. EditPad Lite has all the essential features to make text editing a breeze:įull Unicode support, including complex scripts and right-to-left scripts.ĭirect editing of text files using Windows, UNIX, and mac Mac text encodings (code pages) and line breaks. ![]() Use EditPad Lite to easily edit any kind of plain text file. Convert files between any of these encodings. Open and save text files encoded in Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32), any Windows code page, any ISO-8859 code page, and a variety of DOS, Mac, EUC, EBCDIC, and other legacy code pages. EditPad Lite handles DOS/Windows, UNIX/Linux and Macintosh line breaks. Automate much tedious editing with clever use of EditPad Lite's search-and-replace. Quickly find the part of the file you want to edit. EditPad Lite sports one of the most extensive search-and-replace features of any text editor. This allows you to automatically enable coding features when you are editing source code, while enabling other writing features when you are editing other text files. This makes it difficult for us to maintain a shared code base for the Windows and Linux versions of EditPad, as. The reason EditPad 6.x.x is not available for Linux is that our Linux development tool, Borland Kylix, has been discontinued. EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. Unfortunately, the native Linux version of EditPad is no longer available. ![]()
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