TextPad
 by Ian Cook

TextPad is the most powerful, easy to use text editor that we have ever ran across. It's one of those programs that after you've used for awhile, you won't want to use a computer that doesn't have it. Two time winner of it's class for the Ziff-Davis shareware awards, it's the most powerful text editor around. Here's a short list of our favorite features:

  • Huge files can be edited (up to the limits of virtual memory for the 32-bit edition).
  • An "HTML recognizing" spell checker with dictionaries in 10 languages.
  • Multiple files can be simultaneously edited, with up to 2 views per file.
  • Warm Start feature lets you restart exactly where you left off.
  • In addition to the usual cut, copy and paste capabilities, selected text can be case shifted and block indented, and characters, words and lines can be transposed. Cut and copied text can be appended to the clipboard, as well as replacing its contents.
  • Text can be automatically word-wrapped at the margin, or at a specified column, if it does not fit on a line. In this mode, text can be split into separate lines where wrapping occurs, or lines can be intelligently joined, preserving paragraphs.
  • Unlimited undo/redo capability.
  • Block (column) selection mode, and visible display of tabs and spaces.
  • Text can be automatically aligned and indented, relative to the previous line, to aid block indentation.
  • A powerful search/replace engine using UNIX-style regular expressions, with the power of editor macros. Sets of files in a directory tree can be searched, and text can be replaced in all open documents at once.
  • Visible bookmarks can be placed on individual lines, and on all occurrences of a search pattern. This is great for tracking where keywords are in a page.
  • Print previewing, and printing with customizable headers/footers and page breaks. ...

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