Notepad is a wonderful editor, being used to edit files in plain text format, thus it is irreplaceable for designing of Web documentsm, programming, and so on. However, the one comprised in Windows, is very inconvenient due to several limitations. This program claims to be able to fill up these drawbacks.

Attention: this program takes a lot of advantages from Unicode representation. It is strongly recommended that you set up TrueType font (as Courier New) to gain more advantages from this feature.

Here are some key features of "AkelPad":

· Single window mode (SDI), multi window mode (MDI);
· Editing of files, which size is more than 64K (generally speaking, size isn't theoretically limited);
· Full support of Unicode strings on Unicode systems (NT/2000/XP/2003);
· Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-8);
· Support of any code page installed in the system;
· Support of DOS/Windows and Unix newline formats;
· Preview file open;
· Correct pseudographics displaying;
· Editing of files with "Read Only" attribute;
· Notice when trying to open binary file;
· Multi-level undo;
· Search/replace text strings, escape-sequences and also search/replace by hexadecimal code;
· Remember file codepage;
· Remember file caret position;
· Remember last search/replace strings;
· Remember last opened files;
· Printing of a document;
· Support of language modules;
· Plugins support (syntax highlighting, auto-completion, scripts execution, keyboard macros and much more).

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Changed: syntax highlighting improved.
· Added: check for language modules and program compatibility. Now the language module version must be equal to version of the program.
Added: "RichEditClass" parameter - defines edit control class name:
· "AkelEdit" (by default)
· "RichEdit20"
· Added: option to turn off the selection by pressing on left mouse button in left margin.
· Fixed: work with Input Method Editors (IME).