DocPad
DocPad is a free alternative to Notepad.
Although it fills the same role, plain text editing, it offers an arsenal of time-saving tools:
block indent/unindent, bookmarking, case conversion, customizable toolbar, encoding conversion, file history, jump to line/offset, keyboard macros, print preview, search and replace, skinnable interface, spell checking, statistics, variable pitch font, and much more.
It also includes a built-in calculator, calendar, and character map.
Features
- Alphabetization of paragraphs
- Block indention and unindention
- Bookmark
- Calculator, calendar, and character map tools
- Convert various encodings including Base-64, Quoted-Printable, UTF-7, etc.
- Convert to lower/upper/title/sentence case
- Cut, copy, and paste
- File type association tool
- File drag & drop
- Help file
- Jump to line/character
- Keyboard macros (unlimited in size and number)
- Normalize spaces
- Print and Print Preview (user can adjust margins, font, page numbering).
- Recent file history
- Search and replace, including case-insensitive, whole-word, and wildcard searches.
- Selectable character set
- Skinnable user interface
- Spell checking
- Statistics on characters, words, lines, and paragraphs
- Text drag & drop
- Toolbar, Status Bar
- Trim trailing spaces from lines
- Undo up to 100 changes
- Variable-pitch fonts support
- Word wrap
And it's free!
Download
Click the button below to download DocPad version
9.0, released July 26th, 2010.
Notes:
Notes:
- The download is a self-contained executable installer. Simply open the file to begin installation.
- The download is approximately 5 MB and installation will use approximately 8 MB of hard disk space.
- If you prefer to download the installer inside of a .zip file, click here.
- To update an existing installation, simply install the new version over the old one.
Requirements
Any computer with Windows® 95, 98, NT4, 2000, ME, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, or 7
can run DocPad.
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