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.
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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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webfork
on 2018-03-15 21:09
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ripu: it has encryption+master password, more encoding options, more visual customizations, and lots of small updates/fixes. I haven't tested stealth status. |
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.
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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 |
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Ennovy
on 2021-10-10 15:36
oct 2, 2021 version 6.3 Release Candidate
Cornflower
on 2021-12-01 07:17
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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 |
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...:-(
Midas
on 2021-08-03 07:38
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The former program's webpage (see below) is very outdated. Linked to Github. |
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.
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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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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.
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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
zorro
on 2018-01-08 05:40
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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. |
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.
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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].
smaragdus
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@Midas |
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.
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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
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Programmer's Notepad is unfortunately not stealth: |
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.
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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: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | Notepad++, EditPad Lite |
What's new? |
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__philippe
on 2015-06-04 09:04
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Akelpad v4.9.4 released 03-JUN-2015 : |
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.
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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. |
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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
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MadEdit-mod, a fork of the original MadEdit is still seeing updated -- check forum topic for more info (click talk balloons icon above). |
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.
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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? |
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robzuc
on 2015-12-16 09:31
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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. |