TED Notepad Release (ver. 5.0.1)

[jsimlo]

Hi

A new version of TED Notepad has been released.
You can find it at its homepage at http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/
Thank you for your review.

jsimlo

What's new in version 5.0.1:

+ Added: Secondary search.
+ Added: Copy Similar Line.
+ Added: Copy Word Above.
+ Added: Cut Columns tool.
+ Added: Find Selected.
+ Added: Both searches are being saved, along with other settings.
+ Added: Full support of storing the settings in a portable INI file.
+ Added: Full support for Mac newlines. Convert from/to Mac tools.
+ Added: Insert Tabs as Spaces and automatic auto-indentation.
+ Added: Tabify Indentation and Untabify Indentation tools.
+ Added: Non-empty lines counter into Statistics dialog.
+ Added: Delete Line, Truncate Line, BkSpace Line.
+ Added: Reverse Each Word tool.
+ Added: Option that leaves empty lines in the Unique Lines tool.
+ Added: Option that skips white-spaces in Quote/Indent Selection tool.
+ Added: File modified asterix flag within main window caption.
+ Added: More Status info: Total lines, line length and total length.
+ Added: Insert File Name and Insert File Title tools.
+ Added: To the next/previous Line, disobeying wordwrapping.
+ Added: Moveable and hideable Right Margin Bar.
+ Added: Setting that counts Line numbers always unwrapped.
- Fixed: Continuous whole words matching minor bug fixed.
- Fixed: RE clone: Some newline bugs and minor searching bugs fixed.
* Smart Return and Copying Return work with last unwrapped line.
* Indent Selection tool does not indent empty lines.
* Several features/tools are more compatibile with the Undo feature.
* Goto Line/Char command-line parameters are no longer exclusive.
* The Tabs as Spaces setting also affects the Indent Selection tool.
* Unix/Mac newlines tools no longer work with an entire document.
* New Search menu has been created for both searching mechanisms.
* Hotkeys of Select Word, Add Word and Complete Word have been changed.
* Application is returning negative error codes upon startup troubles.
* Several routines have been optimized to achieve better performance.
* Sorting tool optimized a bit. All line-oriented tools optimized.

 

[kewwinn]

Taken from its manual:

TED Notepad is a freeware editor for true plain-text. It looks like the
original Windows Notepad, but provides many features and tools for
quick, easy and advanced editing. The light-weight application fits on
a floppy or USB and loads instantly with no installation required.
Offers many text-processing functions and tools, many hotkeys and
clipboards. You will find several inovative features too. TED Notepad
is designed especially for daily writing of plain-text documents and
lists. Creating of scripts and html-like files is a joy as well.

Quite extensive set of features covers entire MS Notepad, Metapad or
Win32Pad and includes:

* Enhanced searching and replacing; second search;
* Plenty of hotkeys and some extra clipboards;
* Several kinds of word and phrase completion;
* All unicode characters and bi-directional support;
* Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac file types;
* Text auto-indentation;
* Extensive text statistics;
* Recent and Favourites menu;
* and many, many other timesavers.

Variety of text tools covers most of the text-based functions
including:

* All types of case conversions;
* Advanced text replacing and character translating;
* Line indentation, unindentation, closing and tabifying;
* Columns cutting and adding numbers;
* Reversing of text, lines and words;
* Full-scale line sorting;
* Searching for line duplicates;
* Word wrapping commiting and unwrapping;
* File inclusion and exclusion;
* and Filters Architecture for any user-defined plugins.

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Comparing the list of features and the usability, it really can compete
with Metapad in every way.. Actually, Metapad seems to be a lot behind.
Quite impressed.. )

Kew

 

[Sietse Fliege]

Comparing the list of features and the usability, it really can
compete with Metapad in every way.. Actually, Metapad seems to be a
lot behind. Quite impressed.. )

I don't quite agree.

There are actually two versions:

"The LE clone is the default one. The whole project is oriented to
support, develop and test this one."
However the LE clone does not support URL Autodetection, which is a show
stopper for me as a Notepad (read Metapad) replacement.

The RE clone sports URL Autodetection, but at the price of:
- no CR/LF newline sequences; only LF characters are used
- no Commit Word Wrap is available
lacking any of these two features is a show stopper on its own

I will check out the LE clone, but not as a Notepad/Metapad replacement.
It does look to have an otherwise nice set of features.