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Notepad3 v6.23.203.2 Updated

juverax on 6 Feb 2024
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Feb 2023
  • Suggested by webfork

Notepad3 is an feature-rich, accessible replacement for the original Windows Notepad with a variety of text modification tools for both complex text edition and programmers. The program enables code folding, bracket matching, automatic indentation, word auto-completion, character encoding conversion, column selection, multiple undo or redo, and bookmarks.

The program also includes a regular expression-based find and replace individual files and batch operations. It supports filename and content searches with reports and many file filters.

The program is the unofficial successor to the Notepad2 program, built from its source code as well as Scintilla and MiniPath on code from metapath.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP packages {inside the ZIP} and extract x86 or x64 (for 64-bit OS) to a folder of your choice. Launch Notepad3.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Notepad2, Ted Notepad
What's new? See: https://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/notepad3/update/
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ripu on 2018-03-11 11:18

Is it stealth?

ripu on 2018-03-11 11:19

What are its advantages over Notepad2?

webfork on 2018-03-15 21:09

ripu: it has encryption+master password, more encoding options, more visual customizations, and lots of small updates/fixes. I haven't tested stealth status.

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TED Notepad v6.3.1

Ennovy on 1 Dec 2021

TED Notepad is a small and fast text editor intended as a replacement for Windows notepad. The program offers a variety of interface tools including hotkeys for almost every function, ability to minimize to system tray, favorite files menu, and many more. Additionally, up to nine permanent clipboards, advanced searching, auto-completion, bi-directional editing and many text-processing functions.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TedNPad.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: AkelPad
What's new? See:http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/changes.php
Latest comments
ripu on 2018-03-11 11:17

Is it stealth?

Ennovy on 2021-10-10 15:36

oct 2, 2021 version 6.3 Release Candidate
download http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/thankyou.php?getfile=tnp630se_uni.zip
Changelog: http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/changes.php

Cornflower on 2021-12-01 07:17

Note a lot of new functions in 6.3.1 (see changelog). Also, after using beta versions without manual updates, it is good to see the manual is up to date in 6.3.1

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SavageEd2 v0.10.00

Midas on 13 Jan 2022
  • 44KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 22 Sep 2021
  • Suggested by ChemZ

SavageEd2 is a very small and fast Notepad replacement. It can edit files of any size, limited only by memory. It can encrypt text files using AES encryption with 256 bit key (max 32 character password) in .enc format. It has Pattern searching features and written in x86 assembly language (HLA).

Note: SavageEd2 is the replacement for former SavageEd.

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Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder.
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SavageEd.exe.
What's new? Full changelog at https://github.com/Androthi/SavageEd/blob/master/CHANGE_LOG.md.
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IanFromBarrie on 2021-07-05 10:24

Just now (2021-07-05) Google says "this file is infected with a virus. Only the owner can download ..."

__philippe on 2021-07-05 15:11

V*rus Total reported infection ratio (19/74) is indeed a tad too high for comfort...:-(
See also https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=101557#p101557

Midas on 2021-08-03 07:38

The former program's webpage (see below) is very outdated. Linked to Github.

https://sites.google.com/view/androth/home/high-level-assembly#h.p_5VxamhLpaykB

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SynWrite v6.41.2780

Ennovy on 30 Mar 2021
  • 30MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Mar 2021
  • Suggested by Mat030

SynWrite is a powerful tabbed source code and web development editor. This feature-rich program includes syntax highlighting for many languages, code folding, tree structure, project management, FTP/SFTP client, keyboard macros, spell checking, customizable hotkeys etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Mozilla Public License
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Syn.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: AkelPad, Notepad++, RJ TextEd, PSPad
What's new? See: http://www.uvviewsoft.com/synwrite/History.txt
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hamasaki on 2017-08-29 21:34

Download link triggers none portable version.

webfork on 2017-08-31 22:24

@hamasaki: Seems like it's working okay on this side

hamasaki on 2017-09-03 09:48

@webfork: Yes, fine now. Strange, before I got the exe.

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Textosaurus v0.9.13

billon on 16 Dec 2019
  • 40MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 16 Dec 2019
  • Suggested by skunkos

Textosaurus (formerly Textilosaurus) is a Scintilla-based text editor with a configurable, tabbed interface and syntax highlighting. The program includes uploaders, tools for scripting, XML, JSON, MIME and supports a wide variety of text encoding.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: msvcp140.dll, vcruntime140.dll (runtime installer included)
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the 7z package and extract (using a program like PeaExtractor) to a folder of your choice. Launch textosaurus.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Notepad++
What's new? See:
https://github.com/martinrotter/textosaurus/releases
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skunkos on 2018-01-08 04:59

Well, actually, the files from C++ runtime are really, there. Your missing DLLs api-ms-win-crt-runtime-* are indirect system dependencies which are not directly referenced by Textilosaurus binary, it seems these files can be installed with installing this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2999226/update-for-universal-c-runtime-in-windows

So it seems that your operating system is not fully up-to-date. These DLLs cannot be re-distributed with textilosaurus.exe, the only way for me could be to package runtime installers into Textilosaurus installer, but that is not really good because some users install portable Textilosaurus from zip package instead, thus, this is not a solution for them.

What do you think? I thought I could use different toolchain (mingw) to build the app for windows, but unfortunately, it is only available for x86 platform which is bad, since I prefer to deploy x64 binaries.

zorro on 2018-01-08 05:40

Well, you're right - my system is not up to date and I am not able to install the update, because my Win 8.1 is one of those that refused to install the big ("8.2") update. No problem, for most other users Textilosaurus will work fine.

smaragdus on 2018-04-19 18:08

I am glad that the developer switched to a better versioning scheme.

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Atom Portable v1.38.2

webfork on 19 Feb 2022
  • 316MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 31 Aug 2019
  • Suggested by Midas

Atom is a customizable text editor supporting tabs, multiple panes, themes and additional functionality via packages. Intended as an open source alternative to Sublime Text, the program includes syntax highlighting, intelligent find and replace options, and more.

Built using the Electron framework and functional in 64-bit. Portable Atom is a portable version of the program.

NOTE: this project appears to be inactive, which will make it incompatible with some add-on packages.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: MIT
How to extract: Download the self-extracting "online.paf" web downloader EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch AtomPortable.exe.

Alternatively, an offline ZIP download (larger as it includes all available languages) is also available. Extract and launch AtomPortable.exe
Similar/alternative apps: CudaText, Notepad++
What's new? See:
https://github.com/atom/atom/releases
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Midas on 2016-08-26 13:28

I reckon there should be a mention somewhere in the entry's description that Atom is based on (in fact, is like the ur-deployment of) the Electron framework [https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)! Broken URL, please copy excluding the exclamation, paste and amend].

Alextp on 2017-06-12 11:28

Maybe mention in props, that alternative is CudaText.

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Programmer's Notepad v2.4.2

billon on 15 Dec 2016
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Dec 2016
  • Suggested by JMiller

Programmer's Notepad is a powerful text editor targeted at users who work with source code. The program offers a versatile environment, features syntax highlighting for many languages (through plugins called "schemes"), project management, addons, and much more.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: FreeBSD
How to extract: Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch pn.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: AkelPad, Notepad++, PSPad, RJ TextEd
What's new? See:
https://github.com/simonsteele/pn/releases
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nickoftime on 2016-12-18 16:56

I really wish it had a spell check feature. If it did, I would replace all of my text editors with this one. It is fast, stable, and has a small footprint.

zorro on 2019-02-07 11:12

Programmer's Notepad is unfortunately not stealth:
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\pn.exe
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\text\OpenWithList\pn.exe
(no matter what the system integration options look like)

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AkelPad v4.9.8

billon on 28 Oct 2016
  • 554KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 18 Jul 2016
  • Suggested by Fluffy

AkelPad is a plain text editor focused on speed and a small size. The program includes unicode support, available single-document and tabbed interfaces, unlimited file size, and multi-level undo, etc.
Support plugins.

Alternatively, AkelPad Portable portablizes recent files and search history and has both the 32- and 64-bit versions together and chooses the right one. X-AkelPad is also available.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes. If you set Recent Files and Search History to 0 as these are stored in the registry.
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of drive-less absolute path (eg. \docs\personal\work.doc without the drive letter)
License: BSD
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. In AkelPad.exe folder, use a Unicode-aware editor to create AkelPad.ini the following four lines:

    [Options]
    SaveSettings=2
    RecentFiles=0
    SearchStrings=0


  3. Save AkelPad.ini as a Unicode-encoded file
  4. Launch AkelPad.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Notepad++, EditPad Lite
What's new? Added:
  • Flag 128 in the manual parameter "PaintOptions" - unit of vertical scrolling is line (default is pixel).
  • Optional parameter for commands 4103,4106:
    1 - force to use last directory.
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__philippe on 2013-12-08 13:07

Akelpad v 4.8.6 released.

__philippe on 2015-06-04 09:04

Akelpad v4.9.4 released 03-JUN-2015 :
http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/download.php

Scores of plugins updated likewise :
http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/plugins.php

Wolfghost on 2015-06-04 12:10

@__philippe tx updated

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MadEdit v0.2.9.1

webfork on 22 Dec 2015
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 19 Feb 2009
  • Suggested by rexx

MadEdit is a text editor with text/hex/column edit modes. It supports many character encodings, including UTF-8/16/32, BIG5, GBK, S-JIS etc. It also supports regular expression search-and-replace, syntax highlighting (C++, Java, HTML, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and many others), as well as the display of ASCII-Art files.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Launches http://madedit.sourceforge.net/wiki/ (defunct) upon clicking on "Options..."
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the 7zip package and extract (using a program like PeaExtractor) to a folder of your choice. Launch MadEdit.exe.
Latest comments
Checker on 2015-12-14 22:09

Seeing the icon I thought 'bəʊɡɪ bəəs' is back ;)

zorro on 2016-09-28 13:59

Cannot confirm the stealth-entry: I use MadEdit 0.2.9.1 for years now and never encountered this behavior. Nothing launches upon clicking options. It's completely stealth :-)

Midas on 2020-07-12 10:28

MadEdit-mod, a fork of the original MadEdit is still seeing updated -- check forum topic for more info (click talk balloons icon above).

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BDV Notepad v5.2

billon on 29 May 2019

BDV Notepad is a plain text editor with support for themes, unlimited file size, multi-level undo/redo, autosaving, URL-autodetection, lines sorting, case changes, extended find-and-replace options, and more. Intended as a Windows Notepad replacement.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application Folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial. Although the program claims Unicode support, I was unable to get it to display Unicode characters (even with the right font selected), or to save to a file with Unicode characters in its name.
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Notepad.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
Similar/alternative apps: Notepad2
What's new?
  • Several improvements and bug-fixes.
  • New features: Templates, Transliteration and SMS-module.
Latest comments
robzuc on 2015-12-16 09:31

I tried it, but the "unlimited file size" feature wasn't proved: with a 4GB file, apart from its opening slowness, a popup message informed that the file could not be opened.

appsuser on 2019-05-24 14:27

Website changed to http://www.bdvnotepad.com/products/bdv-notepad/

webfork on 2019-05-25 22:37

@appsuser: thanks, billon got that updated

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