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Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on March 14, 2007

Text editors are a web developers best friend :)

I know there are hundreds out there but my personal favourite is Textpad. Its easy to use, has loads of features and best of all is free!

Features 

Huge files can be edited, up to the limits of virtual memory. See Specifications for the actual limits.
Supports Universal Naming Convention (UNC) style names, and long file names with spaces.
CUA compliant keyboard commands.
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish user interfaces.
A spelling checker with dictionaries in 10 languages.
Multiple files can be simultaneously edited, with up to 2 views per file.
Warm Start feature lets you restart exactly where you left off.
In addition to the usual cut, copy and paste capabilities, selected text can be case shifted and block indented, and characters, words and lines can be transposed. Cut and copied text can be appended to the clipboard, as well as replacing its contents.
Text can be automatically word-wrapped at the margin, or at a specified column, if it does not fit on a line. In this mode, text can be split into separate lines where wrapping occurs, or lines can be intelligently joined, preserving paragraphs.
OLE2 drag and drop editing for copying and moving text between documents.
Unlimited undo/redo capability. The undo buffer can be optionally cleared when a file is saved, or by using the Mark Clean command.
Block (column) selection mode, and visible display of tabs and spaces.
A keystroke macro recorder, with up to 16 active macros.
Sorting, using up to 3 keys.
Text can be automatically aligned and indented, relative to the previous line, to aid block indentation.
The right mouse button pops up an in-context menu.
The cursor can be constrained to the text, or can be positioned freely in the document view.
Toolbar with fly-by usage hints, and an active status bar.
A powerful search/replace engine using UNIX-style regular expressions, with the power of editor macros. Sets of files in a directory tree can be searched, and text can be replaced in all open documents at once.
Visible bookmarks can be placed on individual lines, and on all occurrences of a search pattern. Bookmarked lines can be cut, copied or deleted.
A built in file manager for fast file copying, renaming, deleting etc.
Print previewing, and printing with customizable headers/footers and page breaks.
Viewer for binary files using a hexadecimal display format.
Built in file comparison utility, and up to 16 user-defined tools with argument macros.
Hypertext links from file search and user tool output to the relevant source line.
DDE interface to other tools, such as MS Visual C++. The editor detects when an open file has been modified by another tool, and prompts you to reopen it.

Check out textpad here.

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Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on March 14, 2007 | Filed Under Software & Programs
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3 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. Tara  |  April 24th, 2007 at 3:04 pm #

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    I am a major newbie to coding. I had a days training in HTML a couple of weeks ago and am now working through an online course. The guy who trained me recommended Crimson Editor, I don’t know how that compares to Typepad? What I really need is an editor which alerts you to your mistakes (as I am making lots of them), forgetting to close a tag etc, almost like a spell checker highlights spelling mistakes. I don’t suppose Typepad or any other editor can do that?

  2. Kevin  |  April 25th, 2007 at 2:00 am #

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    no im not familiar with many other text editors to be honest. i taught myself html on notepad - i only started using textpad after i used it for java programming when i went back to uni to do a postgrad.

    i tried dreamweaver a few years ago but i always found myself going back to the code

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