BowPad v2.9.3 Updated
Ennovy on 8 Dec 2024 Change history
- 5MB (uncompressed)
- Released on 18 Nov 2024
- Suggested by Midas
BowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting for over 100 file types and languages. The program's feature set is extendable with plugins written in jscript or vbscript.
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| Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | GNU GPLv3 |
| How to extract: | Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch BowPad.exe. |
| What's new? | See: https://tools.stefankueng.com/BowPad_history.html |
7 comments on BowPad
smaragdus
2016-11-22 20:02
I have never seen a text editor as ugly as this one, compared to BowPad, even DocPad (http://www.gammadyne.com/docpad.htm) is a beauty.
v2.2.5
MIKLO
2016-08-25 12:31
@Midas good point :) I've tested this for awhile(x64) and I found useful and easy to use..... works 4ME.
MIKLO
v2.2.3
Midas
2015-03-02 02:46
@Ganamyde: please be so kind as to list additional offerings of 64-bit text editors (other than EditPad Lite and AkelPad, which already have database entries).
v2.0.17
Hi,
I am not connected to this project - but this ugly duckling is transforming into a beautiful swan.
"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2c4a07b3-cdb2-4112-a74f-0a0f95004524"
Strong support for the keyboard, and a command palette, means BowPad now offers exceptional functionality for a single 5MB executable. As of version 2.9.3.3092:
- Minimise ribbon to a small customisable toolbar
- Multiple document tabs
- Folding
- Dark Mode
- Live Spell Checking
- Tree-view explorer view
- Abbreviations
- Autocomplete from contents
- Clipboard history
- Goto last edit
- Auto-indent tabs or spaces
- Soft wrapping
- Drag and drop editing
- Open selected filename
- Open URL
- Regular Expression find/replace
- Find in files
- Custom Keyboard shortcuts
- Bookmarks
- Save/restore sessions
- Quick launcher to call tools
- Tail -F mode
- Plugins using vb or JScript
There are things I don't like:
- Busy status bar cannot be hidden
- Bold font on Tabs
- Minor issues assigning keyboard shortcuts
- Powerful, but non-standard find/replace
- No incremental find
The metamorphosis continues, perhaps it's worth another look.
Kind Regards Gavin Holt
v2.9.2