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AkelPad

A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast.

Free Open Source
Windows
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A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages.

Features

* Single window (SDI), multi-window (MDI) and pseudo multi-window modes (PMDI);
* Editing of files, which size is more than 64K (generally speaking, size isn't theoretically limited);
* Full support of Unicode strings on Unicode systems (NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Seven);
* Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-32BE);
* Support of any codepage installed in the system;
* Support of DOS/Windows, Unix and Mac newline formats;
* Preview file open;
* Correct pseudographics displaying;
* Column text selection;
* Multi-level undo;
* Fast search/replace text strings;
* Remember file codepage and caret position;
* Printing of a document and print preview;
* Support of language modules;
* Plugins support (syntax highlighting, folding, auto-completion, scripts execution, keyboard macros and much more). ... More Info »

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MySoft and win32

Link to official AkelPad site

Official Website

Features

Code format coloring Portable Add a feature

Category

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code-format-coloring languages-min-20 liberkey notepad portable text-editor

AkelPad was added by shamilbi in May 2009 and the latest update was made in Aug 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2018 There is a history of all activites on AkelPad in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on AkelPad or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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AkelPad Comments

Best Notepad alternative

Comment by astral_cyborg

about AkelPad · Sep 2016 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

Same GUI with Notepad, but much more options, plugins and tab support. Setup has the ability to replace the Windows Notepad without deleting it of course.

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Comment by dgemu12

about AkelPad · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Small lightweight and portable, can use add-ons to further usefulness.

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