Portable EditPad Pro

EditPad Pro has a lot of functionality that makes editing text files more convenient for you. A lot of this does not sound very impressive or even works behind the scenes, but you will surely appreciate it when you need it. These are only a small number of EditPad Pros many little features that make heavy text editing a breeze.
With EditPad Pro you can easily open and edit many text files at the same time. Theres no limit. Arrange text files into multiple projects to open them at once and edit them together. Open all files in a folder (and its subfolders) into a project. Many of EditPad Pros editing commands can work on all files in a given project at once. Quickly switch between files and projects by clicking on their tabs. Move back and forth with the handy "previous editing position" and "previously edited file" commands. Manage long lists of text files and large projects with the handy file manager sidebar which can rename, move, copy and delete files.
You can make sure youre writing with proper spelling by using EditPad Pros spell checker. Word lists are available in many languages. You can tell EditPad Pro to point out misspelled words in the current file, current project, all open files, or just the selected text. Turn on Live Spelling to make EditPad Pro highlight misspelled words as you type.
EditPad Pro sports one of the most extensive search-and-replace features of any text editor. Quickly find the part of the file you want to edit. Highlight matches, fold lines, and skip over matches and files. Instantly make many replacements throughout a (rectangular) selection, file, project, or all files in all projects. Use regular expressions and adaptive case options for powerful and dynamic search terms and replacements. Clever use of EditPad Pros search-and-replace can automate much tedious editing.
Record and play back keystroke macros to reduce repetitive tasks to a single key combination. Record a search as part of a macro to instantly edit all search matches in any particular way. Save any number of macros to build your own library of high-octane text editing wizards.
EditPad Pros syntax highlighting is fully configurable. You can change the colors to mimic the Borland or Visual Studio IDE, or choose your own colors. EditPad Pro ships with large number of syntax coloring schemes, all of which are fully editable.
EditPad Pros File Navigator can show you a detailed layout of the files structure. Use EditPad to instantly jump to a relevant part in the file.A large number of file navigation schemes for various programming languages and other file formats are included. All file navigation schemes are fully editable. You can create schemes to visualize the layout of almost any kind of file. The schemes can also make various blocks of text foldable with a single click. By folding blocks you can hide lines to get a better overview of the files structure, making it easier to rearrange blocks of code or navigate between them.
EditPad Pros Clip Collection makes it easy to keep a list of text snippets at your fingertips, ready to be inserted into the files youre editing. Such a snippet can be a word, phrase, three paragraphs, half a book, or anything you want. Clips can consist of "before" and "after" parts to be inserted around a selection.
Use EditPad Pros built-in FTP client to upload your web pages and scripts to your web server right within EditPad Pro. You can even edit web pages directly on the server via FTP, without having to download the HTML files to your computers hard disk first. EditPad Pro transfers files in the background, so youll never have to wait for all files to download, or for a file youve saved to finish uploading. You can go on editing right away. EditPad Pro can stay connected to multiple servers.
Dont worry about saving files with EditPad Pro extensive auto-save and backup options. Choose how many backup copies you want to keep and/or for how long. The File History shows you the backup copies for the current file. You can easily open and compare backups, as well as save specific milestone copies. EditPad Pros unlimited undo and redo even allows you to undo changes after saving them.
Compare any two files to get a view of the differences between two files, or check which changes were made between two (backup) copies of the same file. EditPad Pro can highlight difference, merge the two files, and extract the differences or similarities into new files. Very convenient for rolling back inappropriate changes you made to a file, or for double-checking the changes somebody else made to a file you sent them. You can easily send files via email right within EditPad Pro.
Use rectangular selections to easily edit columns of text. Any editing command that works on a usual linear selection also works on a rectangular selection. Shift and insert columns left and right, move blocks up and down, fill and indent blocks, etc. Handy commands to begin, end, shrink and expand selections make it easy to work with blocks spanning many pages.
Easily edit all kinds of lists with handy commands to sort lines alphabetically and delete duplicate lines. Use these commands with rectangular selections to sort and trim lists of multiple columns on one of the columns.
EditPad Pro will highlight URLs (web site addresses) and email addresses in your text files. You can easily open the web site by double-clicking the URL in EditPad Pro. Of course, you can always turn this option off.
When writing a report or an article that has certain length requirements, you can use EditPad Pros statistics feature to instantly see how many paragraphs, words and letters youve typed so far. Get statistics for just the current file, or for all files in a project, or even all files in all projects.
If you need to type in some special characters not available on your keyboard, you can use EditPad Pros character map to quickly insert them by double-clicking on them. Easily insert special symbols like the trademark or copyright symbol into your documents, or enter letters from a foreign script that your keyboard does not support. If you save your files as Unicode files, you can use any character known to mankind.
Obviously, you can change the editing options for all predefined file types, as well as the default options for unrecognized files.
· TXT files (text documents)
· HTML files (web pages)
· XML files and XML-based formats
· Cascading Style Sheets
· Borland Delphi and Pascal source code
· Java source code
· JavaScript files and HTML files with embedded JavaScript
· C# source code
· Visual Basic source code (VB6 & VB.NET)
· VBScript files and HTML files with embedded VBScript
· ASP with VBScript and ASP.NET with C#, VB.NET or Delphi
· C and C++ source code
· Eiffel source code
· Perl scripts
· PHP scripts and HTML files with embedded PHP scripts
· Python scripts
· Ruby scripts
· SQL queries
· Batch files
· INI configuration files
· RSS feeds
· Binary files
Here are some key features of "EditPad Pro":
· No worries about Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac or mixed line break styles.
· Convert UPPER, lower, Title and iNVERTED case.
· Versatile block and clipboard functions and options for moving and copying blocks of text.
· Clip collection to store and instantly reuse text snippets and templates.
· Unlimited undo and redo save your day.
· Compare two versions of one document (diff).
· Easily work with many files using the tabbed layout instead of traditional overlapping windows.
· Quickly (re-)open files via history lists, favorites, projects, etc...
· Make your text editor work the way you want, rather than the other way around.
· Powerful search and replace.
· Edit every kind of text file.
And much more!
Limitations:
· The difference between this free evaluation version and the full version is that the evaluation version will remind you to purchase your personal license key if you wish to continue using EditPad Pro. All of EditPad Pros features are available in the evaluation version, except for the spell checker (to reduce the download size of the evaluation version) and the configurable print headers (the headers in the trial version are fixed, reminding you to purchase EditPad Pro).
· While you can use the custom syntax coloring schemes you can download with the trial version, the separate application for creating your own coloring schemes is not included.
· The free evaluation version comes with complete documentation, including a printable manual in PDF format. If you want, you can read the EditPad Pro manual without downloading and installing the trial version.
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