TextPad
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| Developer(s) | Helios Software Solutions |
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| Stable release |
7.6.3
8.1.1 / December 7, 2016 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Size | ~6.0 MB |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | textpad |
TextPad is a text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. It is produced by Helios Software Solutions.
First released in 1992, TextPad is currently in its eighth major version. Of the commonly used text editors for Microsoft Windows, it was one of the earliest and in particular one of the first to use a shareware-type business model.
Key features include:
The Clip Library is a TextPad sidebar that allows users to store small items persistently, and then use them easily. This is done by double clicking clip names in the Clip Library sidebar. In other editors such as Komodo, a clip library is known as "snippets".
TextPad comes with a number of pre-defined clip libraries, including ANSI characters, HTML characters and HTML tags. A very useful clip library is the Clipboard History. This is a list of previous Clipboard contents. So even though the standard Windows Clipboard can only hold one piece of information, the TextPad Clipboard History Clip Library can access a whole history of entries. See also clipboard managers.
You can create your own new clip libraries, and there are many clip libraries available.
Helios's program WildEdit is an interactive tool for power users to make the same changes to a set of text files in a folder hierarchy.
TextPad and WildEdit are similar to shareware software in that full-featured versions can be downloaded for free and used for an indefinite trial period. Users who pay for the product receive a license code that registers the software. However neither program is advertised as shareware and users are not encouraged to share copies with one another.
TextPad has received generally favorable professional reviews. Mike Williams of PC Advisor calls it "an excellent Notepad replacement with a stack of essential features." Download.com described it as an affordable editor suited for coding, "neither the most powerful nor most expensive shareware text tool, though many users will find it more than meets their needs at a fraction of the cost of similar tools."
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