TED Notepad is a free light-weight notepad alternative.
It offers 312 text-processing functions, innovative features and timesaving tools. All of them on hotkeys; all designed for quick and advanced editing. It is portable and loads instantly with no installation required.
Get ready for a swiss-army-knife notepad alternative for free: small and simple, yet full of ready features, combinations, enhancements and tools. You'll never learn them all. Don't type, ted-it!
TED Notepad is chrome-less non-bloated free and plain-text editor. No showy toolbars, no sidebars, none of the fancy-looking gadgets. But a simple, neat and KISS interface, stuffed with variety of features, settings and text-transforming tools, waiting on hotkeys and mouse clicks to get useful. It stays out of your way and thus helps you to work on what's important, bringing your typing, text-working or even coding to the next level:
As it is, TED Notepad is particularly targeted to advanced notepad users with non-trivial demands and tasks. To discover its true power, you might need to learn a thing or two. Once you do, you won't type, "you'll just ted-it"..
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:
Word auto-completion 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.
More innovative line auto-completion 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.
Webmasters and XML coders may find useful the HTML/XML Tag generator. It helps completing < angle brackets > and closing tags quite quickly. And it never bothers you with so-much-clever wizzzards.
First of all, why would you use the clipboard, when you can often do the same with Recently Deleted and Recently Inserted features? Well, if you do need to clipboard, there is plenty of enhancements..
Auto-copy to clipboard while selecting with mouse. This is a well known feature from putty. Just hold down the ctrl-key and use the mouse! And the use of the ctrl-key is optional.
Of course, you can Paste with mouse as well. Again hold down the ctrl-key and right-click the mouse! The ctrl-key is again optional.
The editor can auto-select 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.
Upon pasting, the editor can mimic case of the text being replaced. Turn it on in the Settings to see if it fits your needs.
Addictive Swap clipboard feature provides a solution to moving phrases around: It niftily swaps the content of the clipboard and the actual selection.
9 permanent clipboards can hold phrases you type often, saving the main system clipboard for other use. What's even better is that these phrases are being remembered even when you shut down the computer.
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.
Innovative Second search is also available, if you'd like to search for two things at the same time.
Definitely innovative is the Search and Last Tool concept, which allows you to transform matching text with tools. You can change character case of matching phrases; or reverse specific words; or sort matching lines; or perform any other available tool, including user-defined filters! Doesn't it sound like 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?
