Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on September 28, 2007 by CyberNet.

I can’t believe that I’m actually saying this, but I may have stumbled across a text editor that is better than Notepad++! In yesterday’s Daily Downloads I included a free program called PSPad, which sounded like a nice text and code editor. The reason that I had come across it is that they recently released a new Beta version of the software, and so I decided to try it out.

It had the features that I was already familiar with in Notepad++, such as syntax highlighting, but it also had some more unique things. One of the things I quickly fell in love with was the built-in FTP connection manager which would let me browse a remote FTP, open files, edit them, and then save the changes. All of that is done from within PSPad, and I found that to be tremendously useful.

Another thing that I liked was the more advances syntax highlighting that it includes. For example, when you’re in an HTML file and you place your cursor in the middle of a tag, the matching open/close tag is highlighted. I do quite a bit HTML development, and I have quickly become accustomed to this new feature.

Here’s a list of other things that PSPad has to offer:

• Manage projects
• FTP client – edit files directly from the web (stores login information, too)
• Text difference with color-coded differences highlighted
• Syntax highlighting according to file type
• Auto correction
• Intelligent internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla
• integrated TiDy library for formatting and checking HTML code, conversion to CSS, XML, XHTML
• Reformat and compress HTML code, tag character case change
• ASCII chart with HTML entities
• Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development
• Spell checker
• Matching bracket highlighting

There are also some PSPad extensions available to add more features, syntax highlighting for obscure languages, and many other things. Even if you are content with Notepad++ or another text editor I think you should give this a whirl…remember, it doesn’t cost a dime!

PSPad Homepage

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This article was written on July 25, 2012 by CyberNet.

As many of you know I am always on the lookout for a good Notepad replacement, and generally I tend to always fall back to using Notepad++. It’s a solid application with a lot of great tools, but in some aspects Notepad++ is a big departure from the simplicity that the built-in Windows Notepad offers. If you feel the same way the free and portable TED Notepad may be more along the lines of what you’re looking for.

What really makes TED Notepad awesome is that it continues to stay as far away as possible from using sidebars, toolbars, and other graphical non-sense that would otherwise make the app start to feel like WordPad more so than Notepad. It doesn’t lack in features though. There are dozens of different text manipulation actions that can be performed, advanced find and replace with regular expression support, advanced auto-completion based on the content of the document, and it’s littered with more keyboard shortcuts than you could possibly remember.

I’ve had TED Notepad on my machine for a few weeks now, and while I do still switch over to Notepad++ occasionally TED Notepad has been standing strong as my primary Notepad replacement.

TED Notepad Homepage (Windows only; Freeware)

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