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PlainEdit for Windows

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PlainEdit is a portable text editor for ANSI and ASCII files. It provides syntax highlighting, extensive text conversion tools, and plugin support. The app runs from USB drives and supports multi-user environments.

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  • Pros

    • Syntax highlighting for common web and scripting languages
    • Supports extensibility through a plug-in architecture
    • Fully portable for use on USB sticks
    • Features user-defined templates for faster file creation
    • Built-in functions for text conversion and encoding

  • Cons

    • Lacks native support for Unicode or UTF-8 files
    • No integrated project or file tree management
    • Does not offer intelligent code completion or linting
    • No built-in version control system integration
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PlainEdit for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
1.4
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
122
Downloads Last Week
0
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Developer’s Description

By Gaijin.at
Edit text for ANSI and ASCII files.

PlainEdit is a text editor for ANSI and ASCII files. Syntax highlighting is supported for the most common Web, script and programming languages. Many functions for text conversion, formatting, decoding and encoding are included.

The most important features are:

Many text conversion function

Simple switching between ANSI (Windows) or ASCII (DOS) editing mode

Syntax highlighting for the most common Web, script and programming languages

Automatically replace special characters to HTML encoding

Incremental text search (forward and backward)

User defined template for fast file creation and editing

Page setup (margins, headers and footers) and a print preview

Insert document and content templates

PlainEdit can be extended with plug-ins

PlainEdit runs in multi user environments as well on USB sticks.

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