Voor het bewerken van simpele tekst bestanden op het Windows-platform is notepad voldoende. Echter wie wat meer functionaliteiten wil moet al gauw een ander pakket zoeken. EditPad is een perfecte oplossing en versie 5.0 is sinds een paar dagen beschikbaar. Onze submitter heeft de lijst met features wat ingekort tot de volgende punten:
- You can open as many files at a time as you want.
- EditPad does not impose a limit on the size of files you can open and edit with it. Also, the maximum length of a single line is not limited.
- Unlimited undo and redo. You can even undo changes after saving them, as long as you did not close the file.
- If you run EditPad again when there is already an instance running, the file(s) you wish to edit will be opened by the existing EditPad window.
- Block functions: horizontal and vertical blocks supported.
- You can specify many print settings: font, margins, headers/footers, etc. and immediately see the effects in the print preview.
- Reopen menu that lists the last 16 files opened.
- EditPad puts an icon in the system tray that remains visible, even if EditPad is closed.
- EditPad fully supports double byte character systems (DBCS) so you can edit texts written in Far East languages, such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
- Many settings such as word wrap, line numbering and auto indent can be made for each file type individually.
- EditPad reads and writes UNIX (LF only) and Mac (CR only) text files (in addition to DOS/Win CR+LF files, of course).
- ROT-13 standard used on the Usenet for making (possibly) offensive texts illegible.
- Uppercase, lowercase, invert case and initial caps conversion
- ANSI <=> OEM (DOS ASCII) conversion allowing you to continue using old files created under DOS.
- ANSI <=> Unicode conversion (UCS-2 and UTF-8 )