TextPad
TextPad is a text editor for Microsoft Windows developed by Helios Software Solutions. It is currently in its ninth major version. TextPad was initially released in 1992 as shareware, with users requested to pay a registration fee to support future development. As of 1996 the company was an associate member of the Association of Shareware Professionals. By 1998 the company was pointing out that the editor was "shareware " and payment was necessary to continue to use it.
Features
Key features include:- The ability to maintain block indents
- Automatic code indentation
- Regular expression based search and replace, including multiline regex
- Block selection and editing
- Macro recording feature to facilitate complex text transformations and data processing.
- * Macro feature supports multiple regex searches within a macro
- Syntax highlighting
- Ability to call external programs
- * Regex matching can be used to jump to a line number in a file given in the output from external programs
- * Automatic integration with Java JDK, if JDK is already on the machine
- Large file support
- Support for editing multiple files, with tabbed document selection
- Block select mode
- Synchronized scrolling of multiple files
- Clip libraries – snippet management for reusable portions of text to insert into documents
- Clipboard history – Allowing TextPad to function as a multiple clipboard tool
- Bookmarking of lines, therefore allowing users to copy specific lines, and then paste them to another document.
- Multi-lingual support: User interface is available in seven languages with spelling dictionaries available in ten languages.
Clip Library
The Clip Library is a TextPad sidebar that allows users to store small items persistently, and then use them easily. In other editors such as Komodo, a clip library is known as "snippets".There are clip libraries available.