DocPad is an easy-to-use and very efficient software that can be an alternative to the classic Notepad.
Although it fills the same role, plain text editing, it offers an arsenal of time-saving tools: block indent/unindent, bookmarking, case conversion, customizable toolbar, encoding conversion, file history, jump to line/offset, keyboard macros, print preview, search and replace, skinnable interface, spell checking, statistics, variable pitch font, and much more. It also includes a built-in calculator, calendar, and character map.
Here are some key features of "DocPad":
· Alphabetization of paragraphs
· Block indention and unindention
· Bookmark
· Calculator, calendar, and character map tools
· Convert various encodings including Base-64, Quoted-Printable, UTF-7, etc.
· Convert to lower/upper/title/sentence case
· Cut, copy, and paste
· File type association tool
· File drag & drop
· Help file
· Jump to line/character
· Keyboard macros (unlimited in size and number)
· Normalize spaces
· Print and Print Preview (user can adjust margins, font, page numbering).
· Recent file history
· Search and replace, including case-insensitive, whole-word, and wildcard searches.
· Selectable character set
· Skinnable user interface
· Spell checking
· Statistics on characters, words, lines, and paragraphs
· Text drag & drop
· Toolbar, Status Bar
· Trim trailing spaces from lines
· Undo up to 100 changes
· Variable-pitch fonts support
· Word wrap
Requirements:
· 8 MB HDD Space
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Major interface improvements, too many to list. Added support for Aero Glass (Vista/2008/7).
· The "Associate" tool will now work even if there is a user-specific association override (Vista/2008/7). This type of association is made in Control Panel > Default Programs > Associate a file type or protocol with a program.
· Added the "Whole Word" option to the "Discard Paragraphs Containing" tool. Also, this tool will now report the number of paragraphs that were discarded.
· Added the "System Default" and "Korean/Hangul" character set options. New installations will default to "System Default" instead of "European, Western".
· Added the "Speak" tool to the toolbar, although it is hidden by default.
· Added the "All/Paragraphs/Longest/Words" statistic.
· When copying text to the clipboard, the character set is now recorded in the clipboard as well. Previously, when pasting into another application, the characters were being converted to the system default character set.
· When recording a...