TED Notepad

Powerful text editor with native Grep, Sort, Cut, Unique, RegEx, Shuffle, Tr, Reverse, etc..

Good at editing huge files: latest version can easily work with 700MB if needed. And the newest 64-bit version (currently in testing and soon to be released) will be able to edit much larger files. The secret is in a special tree text storage architecture designed for massive amounts of text.

This notepad alternative offers 435 text-processing functions, innovative features and timesaving tools. All of them on hotkeys; all designed for quick and advanced editing. It is small, portable and loads instantly with no installation required.

Like a jack-of-all-trades in a fast notepad replacement. Gazillion of handy tools, enhancements and features. You'll never learn them all. Don't type, ted-it!

Free download: TED Notepad.

Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, etc.

End User License Agreement. List of TED Notepad features.

Current version 6.3.1. Dec 1, 2021. ChangeLog. FAQ.

How to replace notepad on Windows?

freeware all donations are welcome innovative new ideas put to good use reliable always tested with huge files

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Don't type, ted-it! What does that mean?

TED Notepad is a free plain-text editor and notepad alternative. A neat KISS interface, stuffed with four tons of features, settings and text-transforming tools, waiting on hotkeys and mouse clicks to get useful. It stays out of your way and helps you to work on what's important, bringing your typing, text-working or even coding to the next level:

Take a look at the full list of all features! There really is 435 of them.
Grep, Sort, Cut, Unique, RegEx, Shuffle, Tr, you name it..
Serious search & replace with regular expressions
Several rather innovative auto-completions
Intelligent clipboarding, swapping and moving text
All convenient text-editor features included, of course
Even more features and settings
Not a believer? See the Awards

As it is, TED Notepad is intended for advanced users with non-trivial demands and tasks. To discover its true power, you might need to learn a thing or two. Because once you do, you won't type, you'll just ted-it..

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Common text editor features

The list of usual text editor features is rather boring, all text editors got them, so just to be complete, none of these are missing:

Text coloring, URL detection
Line numbers, Line lengths
Visible newlines, tabs, spaces
Multi-level Undo and Redo
Favourites and Recent files
Portable INI file settings
Auto-recognition of UTF-8 and UNICODE files
Tab/Newline searching, Regular expressions
User-defined font/background colors
Outside file modifications
Auto-save, recovery and backups of files
Template file for new documents
Stay on Top, Fullscreen, Info-rich Statusbar
Drag and Drop, Copy and Paste via mouse
Plus a ton of text-transforming functions

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Jack-of-all-trades for your text and code

Lower Case
Upper Case
Case Inversion
Word Capitals
First Capital
Up to Sentences
Random Case
Fun Case
Indent Lines
Unindent Lines
Quote Lines
UnQuote Lines
Shift Lines Left
Close Lines
Unclose Lines
Shift Lines Right
Trim Tail Spaces
Trim Empty Lines
Tabify Indentation
UnTabify Indentation
Remove Empty Lines
Collapse Empty Lines
Unique Lines
Find Duplicate Lines
Cut
Columnize
Add line numbers
Grep
Filter by Pattern
Keep matching lines
Remove matching lines
Tr
Translate Characters
Escapes and Ranges
Replace
Extended Replace
Regular Expressions
Mimic case replace
Extract Words
Enclose Selection
XML/HTML Tag
Reverse Text
Reverse Order of Lines
Reverse Order of Words
Reverse Order of Words on Each Line
Reverse Each Word
Reverse Each Line
Sort Lines
Sorting Keys
Sort Naturally as Numbers
Shuffle Lines
Selection Statistics
Document Statistics
Statistics
Number of Characters/Letters/Spaces
Number of Words/Lines/Paragraphs/Sentences
Average/Minimum/Maximum Line Lengths
Commit Word-Wrap
Unwrap Paragraphs
Unwrap Lines
Compare Strings
External Viewers
External Filters
Repeat Last Tool
Search and Last Tool
..and a lot more..

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More or less clipboarding?

First of all, why would you even want to use the clipboard, when you can achieve the same with inserting the Recently Deleted and Recently Inserted text? But if you do need to clipboard, there is plenty of it..

Copy via mouse while selecting text. This is a well known feature from ssh terminals. Just hold down the ctrl-key and select text using the mouse (the use of the ctrl-key is optional, actually).

Paste via mouse is just as easy. Again hold down the ctrl-key and simply right-click the mouse (the ctrl-key being optional). You can even select some text via the right-click before pasting, to replace it, or to Swap it with the clipboard via the Shift-key.

Cut/Copy Append can come quite handy to build up longer text as a collection buffer.

Auto-selection is always ready to select the current word, line, paragraph or document for you, if you try to copy to clipboard with no selection. Just turn it on in the Settings, and choose your level.

Mimic case on paste is a killer feature. Turn it on in Settings to see if it fits your needs.

Swap clipboard feature provides an addictive solution to moving phrases around: It niftily swaps the content of the clipboard and the current selection.

9 extra permanent clipboards can conveniently hold phrases you type often, saving the main system clipboard for other use. What's even better is that these phrases are remembered even if you shut down the computer.

/v Paste command line parameter gets you started with clipboard contents right after opening.

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Enhanced searching'n'replacing

Search is run from a nifty compact Search bar, which can optionally auto-hide after successfull matches. Though Find Selected and Find Later features offer a much quicker way to start a search. You can also choose to remember the current searches between sessions. Search over multiple lines is a must have!

Fancy Select to Next feature helps you to quickly select any text up to the next occurrence of the searched phrase. Or the one after that.

Secondary search is also available, if you'd like to search for two things at the same time.

Search and Last Tool, definitely innovative concept, allows you to transform matching text with any of the gazillion of text-processing tools TED Notepad offers. You can change character case of matching phrases; or reverse found words; or sort matching lines; you can even run the Replace tool from within the Search and Replace loop, or run one of your own user-defined filters! Now isn't that a killer feature? :)

Learn how to write a Regular Expression in notepad, also called RegExp or RegEx. Use back-references in replace patterns, or employ the Search and Last Tool concept to transform the matches. With perl-like regular expressions, there seems to be no limit in what you can achieve with such combination.

The Search bar is quite hotkey-stuffed. Try different combinations of Ctrl and Shift with Enter and F3 keys. Or would you rather see the documentation?

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Several innovative auto-completions

Word auto-completion, the usual, is based on dictionary of the current document. There is no point in creating big user-specific dictionaries and then browse through all the possible words. It's even better the other way around, because while the list of document words is usually small, TED Notepad can effectively auto-expand words to common continuation before it bothers you with dialogs and lists of all plausible suggestions.

Line auto-completion, a bit innovative, is based on lines of the current document. This feature offers you to auto-complete beginnings of frequent lines, including indentation, punctuation and other characters. If you are creating lists or source code, your lines often begin the same and line auto-completion can ease the usual copy-pasting practice. Try it out on source code — it's amazing how much can be auto-completed based on indentation.

Copying Return is definitely the quickest way to duplicate lines, especially if you want to duplicate portions of lines. Try it on when coding CSS files — that's my favourite.

HTML/XML Tag, a must-have for webmasters and XML coders, helps completing those < angle brackets > and closing tags.