TextPad is a powerfull text editor for Microsoft Windows.


Key features include:

    * the ability to maintain block indents
    * automatic code indentation
    * 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 compilers)
       - regex matching can be used to jump to a line number in a file given in the output from external programs (e.g. to locate the cause of a compiler error)
       - automatic integration with Java JDK, if JDK is already on the machine
    * large file support
    * support for editing multiple files, with tabbed document selection
    * block select mode
    * synchronized scrolling of multiple files
    * clip libraries - snippet management for reusable portions of text to insert into documents
    * clipboard history - Allowing textpad to function as a Multiple Clipboard tool
    * Bookmarking of lines, therefore allowing users to copy specific lines (e.g. log file error messages), and then paste them to another document.


Snippets (Clip Library):

The Clip Library is a TextPad sidebar that allows users to store small items persistently, and then use them easily. This is done by double clicking clip names in the Clip Library sidebar.

TextPad comes with a number of pre-defined clip libraries, including ANSI characters, HTML characters and HTML tags. A very useful clip library is the Clipboard History. This is a list of previous Clipboard contents. So even though the standard Windows Clipboard can only hold one piece of information, the TextPad Clipboard History Clip Library can access a whole history of entries.