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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: June 04, 2004
- Total Downloads: 340,344
- Downloads last week: 357
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 334 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Once you explore the power of NoteTab Light, you may find this text editor beautiful despite its off-putting interface. The left-hand 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 buttons 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 and edit them easily.
The Tidy HTML clip (in the HTML and Utilities libraries) incorporates the free download HTML Tidy, available on Download.com. While the TopStyle library similarly requires a CSS editor of that name, we couldn't get it to work. NoteTab Light isn't a tool for casual users, but power users and programmers should find plenty to love.
Publisher's description
From Fookes Software :NoteTab Light is a free Notepad replacement and HTML editor. Move quickly around large files with a tabbed interface, and format your text. Write with the font of your choice, fixed width or proportional. If you need to cut and paste chunks from a pile of files, you can set up a Paste Board file to save text clips automatically. Strip HTML tags from your files. Call up complete document statistics instantly. Use system-wide search and replace tools. Speed up your work with text macros; you can use them as shortcuts, or even to auto-replace recurring typos. Sample macro libraries are supplied, and you can easily build your own.
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User reviews of NoteTab Light 4.95
- Average user rating: 4.6 stars out of 334 votes
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: NoteTab Light 4.95
Pros: Tons of built-in resources, formatting for languages, extensibility, and speed make this a must-have editor for the programmer who rejects IDEs but wants something more powerful than Notebook.
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Version: NoteTab Light 4.95
Pros: Never use other note pad again!
Cons: looks busy at 1st....but it is simple once you spend some time with it !
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Version: NoteTab Light 4.95
Pros: Many features.
Cons: Cannot read or write files whose name contains Unicode.
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8 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: NoteTab Light 4.95
Pros: I'm looking for a NotePad alternative, and this one has a lot of features at your fingertips...
Cons: The free version does NOT give you line numbers, which is the #1 reason to use a NotePad replacement. It generally lacks basic ease of use. For example, it tabs opened documents, but there's no X to close each tab. It does not color-code anything, not even CSS, XML or HTML. The "macro" features may be nice, but you would only use a few of them in very rare cases -- they really just takes up screen space.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: NoteTab Light 4.95
Pros: Great notepad replacement and it's free! I would love to see an update to this program.
Cons: hasn't been updated since 2004
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