- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (Nag screen); $29.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 21, 2007
- Total Downloads: 1,068,045
- Downloads last week: 1,337
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 60 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on December 09, 2008
When Word is too much and Notepad isn't enough, you might want to give TextPad a look. The text tool requires little drive space, but comes with a surprising array of unique features that are especially useful for programming tasks. A group of simple formatting tools such as indenting, line numbering, character transposing, and condition-based word wrapping help keep code in order. It offers excellent customization features, letting you create formatting and code coloring specific to whatever language you're programming in. Those looking for a robust tool for low-end desktop publishing will be disappointed, however. TextPad works best for programmers and other people who need a full-featured tool for plain text.
Publisher's description
From Helios Software Solutions :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.
What's new in this version:
Version 5.03 includes unspecified updates.
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User reviews of TextPad 5.03
- Average user rating: 4.6 stars out of 60 votes
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Version: TextPad 5.03
Pros: Ease of use; user friendly screens
Cons: Find and replace is not as straightforward as it could be.
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Version: TextPad 5.03
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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Version: TextPad 5.03
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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Version: TextPad 5.03
"Solid Light-Weight Text Editor"
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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Version: TextPad 5.03
Pros: A good upgrade from Notepad / Wordpad
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