is a popular
Text Editor for the
Microsoft Windows family of
Operating System s.
First released in
1992 , this
Software is currently in its fourth major version. It is produced by
Helios Software Solutions .
Key features include:
- the ability to maintain block indents
- automatic code indentation (see Indent Style )
- Regular Expression based search and replace, including multiline regex
- Macro recording feature to facilitate complex text transformations and data processing.
- --- Macro feature supports multiple regex searches (and replacements) within a macro
- Syntax Highlighting (extendable to many different languages)
- ability to call external programs (such as Java Compiler s)
- large file support
- support for editing multiple files, with Tabbed Document Selection
- block select mode
- synchronized Scrolling of multiple files
Their more recent program is an
Interactive tool for power users to make the same changes to a set of text files in a folder hierarchy.
Full-featured trial versions of TextPad and WildEdit are available for
Evaluation , but neither program is
Shareware .
