TextPad
TextPad is a text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. It is produced by Helios Software Solutions.
First released in 1992, TextPad is currently in its eighth major version. Of the commonly used text editors for Microsoft Windows, it was one of the earliest and in particular one of the first to use a shareware-type business model.
Features
Key features include:
The ability to maintain block indents
Automatic code indentation (see indent style)
Regular expression based search and replace, including multiline regex
Macro recording feature to facilitate complex text transformations and data processing.- Macro feature supports multiple regex searches (and replacements) within a macro
Macro feature supports multiple regex searches (and replacements) within a macro
Syntax highlighting (extendable to many different languages)
Ability to call external programs (such as compilers)
- Regex matching can be used to jump to a line number in a file given in the output from external programs (e.g. to locate the cause of a compiler error)
- Automatic integration with Java JDK, if JDK is already on the machine