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{{Infobox_Software
| name = TED Notepad
| screenshot = [[Image:Tednpad.jpg|250px]]
| caption = TED Notepad 5.2.1
| developer = Juraj Simlovic
| latest_release_version = 5.3.1
| latest_release_date = April 18, 2007
| operating_system = [[Microsoft Windows]]
| genre = [[Text editor]]
| license = Freeware
| website = http://jsimlo.sk/notepad
}}
'''TED Notepad''' is a [[freeware]] [[text editor]] for [[Microsoft Windows]]. The software has been developed by Juraj Simlovic since 2001, originally as a school project. It has a similar cosmetic look to [[Notepad]], but provides more features, especially for advanced [[plain-text]] editing. The application is [[Portable application|portable]] and fits on a [[USB flash drive]] and does not require an installation. You can find several innovative features too, like a second search or a line completion.

Unlike many other [[List of text editors|similar applications]], TED Notepad really supports [[Unicode]] and [[UTF-8]] encodings, which means you can write Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Bulgarian and Arabic characters in a single file. It supports [[Bi-directional text|bi-directional]] editing as well, which is also quite rare among [[List of text editors|others]]. Practically transparent support for Unix and Mac newlines is also very comfortable. One does not have to wonder about files from other platforms.

One unusual and innovative feature is a ''second search'', which allows a user to search for two things at the same time. With a feature that selects the text along searching (text between the actual position and the next occurrence is selected), this represents an easy/quick way to select blocks of text that are enclosed with specific phrases, e.g. paragraphs in HTML.

Another innovative feature is a [[line completion]]. Along the standard [[word completion]], based on a dictionary of the actual document, TED Notepad provides a way to complete ''words'' also according to similar lines. In comparison to the word completion, the line completion is capable of completing punctuation, special characters and code operators. Therefore, completing source code by similar lines can be sometimes quicker than a completing by words, especially on lines with many operators and braces.

==Text tools==

The most visible characteristic of the editor is the amount of text tools it offers. Starting with basic tools for letter case conversions and conversions of newlines between platforms, one can also find tools for reversing text, lines or words. The tools menu also does not lack tools for enhanced replacing, unwrapping (joining) lines of paragraphs, committing actual [[word wrap]]ping, tools that (un)indent or (un)tabify text, tools for including and excluding files, inserting date and time or actual file name.

The application offers a dialog for sorting lines that is probably the most exhaustive out there. Unusual unique lines tool provides a method to exclude duplicate lines or to count them. Translate characters tool resembles a converter between character sets and a very simple cryptographic tool. Cutting of columns and adding numbers to them repays the missing block selections. At the end of the tour, there are extensive text statistics that calculate about 12 different things about text.

The author of the software also added a support for user defined text plugins. Its manual describes how to write a text tool of your own and how to launch it from the main application.

==Other features==

Other practical features may include:

* Favorite Esc key exit.
* Many hotkeys.
* Several internal clipboards for usual cliché.
* File size limited only by actual memory available.
* Word completion, based on the actual file dictionary - the words are offered according to words already typed.
* Copy word/line above that quickly inserts words typed directly above - very handy for writing lists, where each line starts with the same/similar words.
* Favorite files menu.
* Auto indentation and Tabs as Spaces.
* Minimize to System tray and stay on top.

==Awards and reviews==

* ''"Pricelessware"'' award from alt.comp.freeware participants in 2007<ref>[http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2007/PL2007TEXT.php#3055-PW Pricelessware 2007 TEXT]</ref>.
* ''"Top 10 Freeware"'' awards from editors of Freeware-Guide.com in March 2006<ref>[http://www.freeware-guide.com/month/03-06.html Top 10 Freeware - March 2006]</ref>, June 2006<ref>[http://www.freeware-guide.com/month/06-06.html Top 10 Freeware - June 2006]</ref>, July 2006<ref>[http://www.freeware-guide.com/month/07-06.html Top 10 Freeware - July 2006]</ref> and November 2006<ref>[http://www.freeware-guide.com/month/11-06.html Top 10 Freeware - November 2006]</ref>.
* ''"6/6 ranking"'' and ''"100% Virus & Spyware Clean"'' award from editors of NoNags.com<ref>[http://www.nonags.com/nonags/texted32.html#TedNPad NONAGS Text Editors - Freeware]</ref>.
* ''"100% clean software"'' award from Softpedia.com reporting no adware, spyware or viruses present<ref>[http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Text-editors/TED-Notepad.shtml Download TED Notepad 5.3.1 - TED Notepad is a light-weight plain-text editor with many hotkeys, clipboards and inovative features - Softpedia]</ref>.
* Multiple reviews by editors of IDG media in November 2006<ref>http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.81013</ref> and January 2007<ref>[http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.90607 Ted vinner på knockout - IDG.se]</ref>.
* Review by editors of Svet Kompjutera in December 2006<ref>[http://www.sk.co.yu/2006/12/skpd08.html SVET KOMPJUTERA - PD KUTAK - TED Notepad 5.0.1]</ref>.


==April Fools' hoax==

On April 1, 2007, Juraj Simlovic pulled an April Fools' hoax on the official web-page of the project. He claimed that [[Microsoft]] was going to acquire all TED Notepad sources and copyrights for $701.556, which was the current size of the source code (in bytes). The author, would no longer hold the right to develop and further distribute the program or its portions.<ref>[http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/fools.php TED Notepad - An expanding Notepad replacement]</ref>

According to the report, which was added later to the same site, the hoax took its price in visit count and visit-to-download rate.

==See also==

*[[List of text editors]]
*[[Comparison of text editors]]

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/ TED Notepad - An expanding Notepad replacement]
*[http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/manual/ TED Notepad manual and wiki]

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