NotepadTabs (DotNET text editor)

[Midas]

NotepadTabs (http://www.notepadtabs.com/) is yet another minimalist ribbon sporting text editor with a few nifty features added, like URL detection and floatable document windows.

NotepadTabs comes in a zip archive containing a setup executable and a MSI file -- the MSI can easily be (Uni)extracted to yield the corresponding program files.

DotNET requirement is only v2.0, but sadly NotepadTabs is not natively portable (although that could be solved with yaP).

Settings are saved to 'HKCU\Software\MT Software', plus it also created an (empty?) folder at '%APPDATA%\MT Software'.

• [With] NotepadTabs [you can] view multiple text files in a single Notepad. Easily switch from one file to another and allowing [sic] you to make a group of text files to work on large projects.

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NotepadTabs zipped intaller for the latest release (currently v4.0.0) can be downloaded from http://www.notepadtabs.com/.

[smaragdus]

I am always interested in note pads in particular and in text processing software in general but this one is uglier than a sin so I was discouraged to test it.

[webfork]

I like the multiple notes in one interface like that, but I'm reluctant to test further until there's a portable version. Thanks for posting.

[Midas]

I'm reluctant to test further until there's a portable version

• I find that might be unlikely -- the homepage is scarce and the file and copyright dates of the current version executable date back to 2013...
  
  Meanwhile, here is the configuration for a yaP launcher:
  

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    ; configuration file for yaP v0.7.5 (http://rolandtoth.hu/yaP/)
    ; application name: NotepadTabs
    ; version: v4.0.0
    ; website: www.NotepadTabs.com
    
    [GENERAL]
    !dotnet = 2.0
    application = App\NotepadTabs.exe
    
    ; commandline = 
    ; workdir = 
    
    [BEFORE]
    dir = %APPDATA%\MT Software\NotepadTabs
    regkey = HKCU\Software\MT Software
    
    ; dir = %Appdata%\Dir
    ; file = %Appdata%\Dir\File.ini
    ; regkey = HKCU\Software\RegKey
    
    [AFTER]
    -dir = %APPDATA%\MT Software
    
    ...

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  BTW, I stated above that NotepadTabs does URL activation -- but it needs clarifying that email addresses require a "mailto:" prefix for activation...

[webfork]

I'm reluctant to test further until there's a portable version

• I find that might be unlikely -- the homepage is scarce and the file and copyright dates of the current version executable date back to 2013

Ah dang. I might have to test this out in it's current state and maybe see if there's feature suggestions I could for other programs using this as a reference. That multi-window view I think could be really strong in another editor.