Portable Intype

Made as the portable edition of Intype, this is an advanced text editor and IDE wrapped up in a comfortable and intuitive interface. It offers support for smart select and edit, snippet insertion and syntax highlighting, among others.

Portability benefits

As there is no setup pack involved, you can drop the program files anywhere on the disk and just click the executable to launch Intype. Otherwise, you can save it to a removable storage unit to directly run it on any PC effortlessly. Unlike most installers, it doesn't modify Windows registry settings.

Supported languages and bundle editor

You can write a new document from scratch or open resource files from C/C++, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL, XML and other types of files, as well as select the syntax highlighting language.
Intype has a bundle editor for languages and lets you review samples with blocks of code and even make changes to the snippets and assigned shortcuts. It's also possible to create a new bundle along with grammars, snippets, themes and preferences for specific bundles.

Text and general options

As far as text options are concerned, you can convert selected text to lowercase, uppercase, lower CamelCase or upper CamelCase, capitalize, hyphenize, underscore or systemize text, split to words, as well as duplicate lines. The utility enables you to search and replace keywords in the current document or selection, go to a specific line, toggle bookmarks, and save the project to file to resume it later.
When it comes to general preferences, it's possible to enable word wrapping mode, set the fixed boundary, break whitespace, change the top and bottom line padding, as well as modify the default font, backup font and size.

Evaluation and conclusion

Intype left a small footprint on performance in our tests, using low CPU and RAM. It didn't hang, crash or display error dialogs. Taking into account its advanced and intuitive features, this tool might come in handy to users looking for a dependable text editor and IDE. Too bad it hasn't been recently updated.