MetPad

Although building applications and web pages nowadays has become quite an easy task, because of less and less writing requirement, code is still an important part of programming, especially for debugging. As such, MetPad comes as a powerful environment with which to work on your source files, or build them from scratch.

A cool advantage, especially for this type of program is that you don’t need to go through a setup process to make it work. This allows you to carry it and project files with you on a thumb drive to use on other computers, without worrying that stability has to suffer, because registry entries are not modified during runtime.

The interface poses no accommodation problems, not even to inexperienced individuals. Most of the space is where you write all code or text, with a side panel letting you store multiple active files for an enhanced experience. File support is impressive, so you’re able to process formats like TXT, INI, CFG, C, CPP, H, JAVA, TCL, PL, CMD, BAT, and SH.

There are an abundance of tools to help work on your projects. Files and timestamps can be quickly inserted, text formatted according to different variables, lines inserted, and there’s even a word counter in case you’re not using the application for programming.

Source files can be kept secured through the built-in encryption algorithm. There’s an advanced tool to help easily detect specific strings, and even replace them if necessary. Bookmarks and favorites manager are used to create quick access points to important parts of your files. You can create or load macro commands to automate complex tasks.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that MetPad manages to live up to expectations, providing a comprehensive set of tools for text processing, and programming. The only downside to the operation is the lack of a syntax highlighter for better detection of code and functions.