AkelPad V4.4.7    Suggested by Fluffy - Updated by Ruby on 30 Aug 2010 370KB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (4727) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (28) - Post comment - Permalink

Posted comments:

 Mark: Really nice little app, ideal for my uses. Full-screen and other plug-ins available at homepage. [2007-03-27 02:52]

 foxcole: I agree this is the perfect solution I was looking for... a lean and fast portable replacement for Notepad but with features that provide improved usability and usefulness. This one is just right. Not too many features, not bloated, works for what I need it to do. [2007-05-27 02:42]

 portable paul: I keep akelpad, AM-notebook, and mempad all on my usb key for notestuff. Have been using them for about 3 months now.
I use mempad about 90% of the time now. Check it out as well. [2007-06-16 13:07]

 tun: It even doesn't have all the features of windows native notepad.

I better find something with native notepad features + other features. [2007-08-06 10:36]

 Local: @tun.

What features are missing?
The only one I can see is the time and date function.

There are plugins available for this too on the website.
It does have many extras [2007-08-09 14:16]

 Tongky: I like the feature of a special character that I use many times, but when I open the document again, all special character become the "?" symbol. How can I fix this? [2007-09-15 21:36]

 tiger: I use this program extensively and enjoy it. I like how it has a preview window when opening a file. Multiple files with tabs. Can't beat it. Small too. [2007-10-06 04:01]

 r: this would be the best notepad replacement if there was a better syntax highlighting plugin (such as the ability to properly display html, php commenting)!

other than that, it is the smallest, most powerful text editor available. [2007-10-10 23:55]

 rowlar: system: win xp, sp2, support for asian language installed:
problems with showing chinese or japanese letters. only a mess. i've changed the codepages and restarted the prog. nothing helped.
any idea? [2007-11-04 10:56]

 pk: a rather interesting feature is "Support of any code page installed in the system".
comes in handy when you need to do some quick conversions on "garbled" text files ;-) [2008-04-23 17:10]

 oliver: Smallest exe size, very fast, tons of features, my default text editor. two thumbs up [2008-04-25 14:12]

 ben: My default text editor too.
No problems with Asian languages. [2008-05-13 18:51]

 meter: Two opposable thumbs up here too. Good balance of speed+clutter vs. features. I use another editor for developing code, but this is my default plain-text editor. [2008-07-06 12:51]

 neu: this is my default text editor as well. The tab really manage clutter on task bar. [2008-07-07 01:44]

 Akel Paduser: An excellent and well configurable text editor. Some of the plugins are very useful extensions, such as Toolbar, ContextMenu, Lineboard, Lines, Autocomplete and others. See the Akelpad forums for tips and trics, some too advanced for me.
I miss one feature which would make it the perfect editor for me: spell checker, for instance a plugin for ASpell (Notepad++ has one). [2008-07-12 06:34]

 Rick: Just a small nit ... Registry entries are created on first run of the program, -before- you have a chance to change the options. You have to manually delete the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Akelsoft key. After the options are set as described here, the key won't be recreated. [2009-01-17 15:05]

 Tonecool: This program is NOT Stealth at all. A lot of new registry values every time i start it on my winXP system even with "Save settings" to "INI File" option set :( [2009-02-09 19:50]

 Danny: Syntax highlighting is a dealbreaker for me. Moving on... [2009-04-07 04:37]

 semiRocket: @meter wrote:
Two opposable thumbs up here too. Good balance of speed+clutter vs. features. I use another editor for developing code, but this is my default plain-text editor.

Same for me.
It's fascinating how fast this thing loads :) [2009-04-23 09:00]

 r: To everyone:

Syntax highlighting is vastly improved! Although they could tweak the colors and font styles, it's much better.

Try the new version and and the new highlight plugin. [2009-05-29 12:18]

 su-th: I can't paste Thai Text from Notepad to graphic applications before. Now, I can do it. I think Akelpad good more Notepad. It's lite and compatible with Saru Revowel 2 to edit Thai Language Text to paste to Adobe Applications.

Thx. to Shengalts and Alexey [2009-06-04 22:18]

 ck: I love this one. Very basic and fast, great for my note taking activities. I downloaded the classic english version: only 18KB. [2009-07-31 10:57]

 antonbrk: One of the very, very best replacements for notepad. Been using it for many years (hard to keep up with its very frequent updating!). Writing this to point Akelpad can do column selection. Utter gem of a program. Tiny size, fully portable, lightly fast search and replace, elegant interface, many extras via plugins. Did I mention Akelpad does column selection (alt+leftclick, same as Word)? [2010-02-17 06:21]

 Portable Paul: FYI: tabs don't show up unless you enable options|window mode|multi window(MDI). eluded me for awhile. [2010-02-17 08:58]

 freakazoid: Looks like Akelpad has code folding now! Going to check it out. [2010-03-17 20:01]

 David Dollevoet: Akel Pad is outstanding -- my default text editor. Multi-file capable, yet efficiently small. [2010-05-25 23:21]

 Giorgio Bordignon: Does anyone overlap akelpad ? It's always on top ! no frame can hide it ! [2010-06-29 12:42]

 Guest: Giorgio Bordignon: uncheck "Menu\View\Always on top" [2010-07-02 09:32]

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