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Revision as of 15:56, 7 November 2006
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TED Notepad is a freeware editor for true plain-text. It looks like the original Windows Notepad, but provides many features and tools for quick, easy and advanced editing. The light-weight application fits on a floppy or USB and loads instantly with no installation required. Offers many text-processing functions and tools, many hotkeys and clipboards. You will find several inovative features too. TED Notepad is designed especially for daily writing of plain-text documents and lists. Creating of scripts and html-like files is a joy as well.
Briefing
Because TED Notepad supports only very basic formatting, you cannot accidentally save special formatting in documents, that need to remain pure-text. This is especially useful, when creating html/php Web pages, because no special characters/formatting may appear in a html/php Web page source code.
Quite extensive set of features covers entire MS Notepad, Metapad or Win32Pad and includes:
- Enhanced searching and replacing; second search;
- Plenty of hotkeys and some extra clipboards;
- Several kinds of word and phrase completion;
- All unicode characters and bi-directional support;
- Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac file types;
- Text auto-indentation;
- Extensive text statistics;
- Recent and Favourites menu;
- Relative and selective Go to jumping;
- and many, many other timesavers.
Variety of text tools covers most of the text-based functions including:
- All types of case conversions;
- Advanced text replacing and character translating;
- Line indentation, unindentation, closing and tabifying;
- Columns cutting and numbers adding;
- HTML/XML Tags inserting;
- Reversing of text, lines and words;
- Full-scale line sorting;
- Searching for line duplicates;
- Word wrapping commiting and unwrapping;
- File inclusion and exclusion;
- and Filters Architecture for any user-defined plugins.
Development
TED Notepad was designed to completely replace the popular Windows Notepad in every-every way. Besides that, it has been covered by a variety of text tools, functions, features, clipboards and hotkeys, optimized to the highest performance; while keeping the intuitive conservative user interface. It was developed and improved with all the know-how that I gained during all those studies and it is completely free. If you want to show your support, please, donate to this project or just tell your friends. The more people like it, the more motivation there is to improve.
The application was developed at the Labs of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague; written in pure ANSI C language (no MFC, no C++, no Borland), using the system API functions, compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0. Instead of other Notepad replacements, TED was developed to be the most stable and as fast as possible program. Without wizards, objects and toolbars; but with help and support of the other students there; I think it is now becoming what it ought to be.
Future
I have made this project mostly because the Windows Notepad was not enough for me. Now I am sure you still have a lot of ideas, how to enhance the Notepad and still cherish the fame of a monkey application. So please write me about it! I hope: It's all about communication, the rest is technology...