TextPad® is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory, and it will work with the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows® 2000, Server 2003, XP and Vista. TextPad has been implemented according to the Windows XP user interface guidelines, so great attention has been paid to making it easy for both beginners and experienced users. In-context help is available for all commands, and in-context menus pop-up with the right mouse button. The Windows multiple document interface allows multiple files to be edited simultaneously, with up to 2 views on each file. Text can be dragged and dropped between files. In addition to the usual cut and paste capabilities, you can correct the most common typing errors with commands to change case, and transpose words, characters and lines. Other commands let you indent blocks of text, split or join lines, and insert whole files. Any change can be undone or redone, right back to the first one made. Visible bookmarks can be put on lines, and edit commands can be applied to lines with bookmarks. Frequently used combinations of commands can be saved as keystroke macros, and the spelling checker has dictionaries for 10 languages. It also has a customizable tools menu, and integral file compare and search commands, with hypertext jumps from the matched text to the corresponding line in the source file (ideal for integrating compilers).
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TextPad is my main source/text editor on the PC. The settings available by file type is awesome. It's compact and reliable.
TextPad is a good free text editor that is very extensible. I like the syntax coloring downloads that are available.
I love this text editor, Macros, regex replace, block select mode, What else do I need?
Textpad is one text editor I frequently use for some quick, lightweight Java development. Its quick to load up, has nice syntax highlighting for Java/XML/Properties files etc. Its block-select feature is also something I use quite a lot. All in all a nice, customizable text editor.
Great text editing software, just needs 'slicking up' a bit for the 21st century...
Use it for my everyday non-ide text work. It's blazingly fast, starts up as quick as Notepad and can handle big (like REALLY BIG) files. Lacks some features like FTP, code folding etc. and that seems to be some kind of rule or policy of the vendor. However, don't want to miss it.
One of the better text editors for Windows, which isn't really saying too much. Poor Unicode support (doesn't do autodetection the way Notepad does, for example) and macros not being editable once they've been recorded are my two major gripes. Textmate on the Mac is a far better editor (except for Textmate's own poor Unicode support).
It may not be the best text editor in the market especially with the advent of free open source tools like Notepad++ which are full of features but for one reason or another, I have never been able to part with TextPad and that has been happening from last 9 years. Probably the oldest tool that I have stuck with. Its reliable, simple, fast and gets all my jobs done with its minimalistic feature set. I just love this text editor.
Evalware - HTML Editor etc. Its ok.. Not the best but ok..
Still one of the fasted editors around for large files. Custom syntax files made my live easier and regexp search/replace still saves the day on occassion. For my day to day coding, the lack of UTF-8 support and code completion forces me to use something else.
I think that when TextPad would be made opensource it might survive, but at the moment I doubt it will.
I use it as a swift IDE for java and C++.I 've try many code-edit tools, such as ultraedit, nopad++, but I have to say this one is the best one among them.
Yes, there may be nicer code/text editors out there, but Textpad is invaluable to us for inspecting our log files, which roll over at 1GB. The Find-in-Files search allows rapid location of needles in haystacks, and the tabs keep open files in one place. Sophisticated searching with bookmarking allows us to pull out all the logging for a particular thread. Lately I've been finding handy for Wiki-ising documents too.
better open source tool here:
http://wakoopa.com/software/notepadplusplus
I use it for JAVA coding. Its really great!!
I've only started using it recently for editing of huge files and I find it very handy. I don't use it for coding (why would I?)