EditPad Lite Makes Customising Your Text Editor Easy

tried this before - Notepad++ is a much nicer replacement for notepad.

Jason C

For those of you looking for Edit Pad Lite as a portable editor, http://www.pendriveapps.com/editpad-lite-portable-text-editor.../

Though I used EPL for years, I have in the last year moved to Notepad++ portable, http://portableapps.com/apps/development/notepadpp_portable

I am not really sure, probably just for a change of pace.

However, VIM is where it's at when I am in my natural environment (FreeBSD, Linux, OS X CLI).

operator207

@GianinaCatilina: Toyed with vim, but it seems to have a larger learning curve than others. If I'm editing mostly SQL, would I get more from vim than Notepad++?

@hypert: Good catch! It would appear that you temporarily have access to the full set of features when you first install it? I'll update the post accordingly.

@hypert: I use EditPad Lite for the same reasons. Since the post doesn't actually provide a link to the Lite version:
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadpro.html
EditPad Lite appears to be missing a whole boatload of features that are part of EditPad Pro. I use the Pro version; it's an absolutely wonderful piece of software. Worth every penny.

Matthew Brundage

EditPad Pro (the paid version of this app) is by far the best text editor I have ever used. Its regular expression parsing is the best and fastest I have found, and that the main reason I always recommend it to programmers or people using it for scripting.

zod000

Last I checked, you couldn't zoom in or out (Ctrl + wheel scroll) EditPad. Anyone know if it's been added?

You've mixed up reviewing EditPad Lite (free) with the full EditPad Pro. Syntax highlighting is NOT available in EditPad Lite. That said, I am a programmer, and I still use EditPad Lite for ALL of my non-source-code text files (logs, etc.). It's the fastest launching text editor I've tried, and the tabs are terrific.

I'd like to point out that EditPad Lite is free for NON-COMMERCIAL use. It had a lot of nice features, but I had to pass over it when I was hunting for a better text editor at work. I settled on Notepad++.

I am a happy vim or gvim (depending on the environment) user and I don't know why I should pay money to use a text editor that's not half as powerful. Also it runs on about any kind of OS and machine you throw at it.

GianinaCatilina

it's spelt licence in the UK :>

GianinaCatilina

@USBhack: Licence is spelled license. I tried to edit less than a minute after the post, but I got an error: "Timeout error. You are only allowed to edit up to 15 minutes after the post"

Very odd.

@UnderLoK: Well, I guess I have to "+1" this. I started with UE back on (I think) Win 95. I have a lifetime licence to UE (UEStudio) and UltraSentry, UltraCompare.

notepad++

adhir

Some of the free packages are great (yes I know this is a demo version), but do any of them stack up to UE (Ultra Edit)? I've been a fan of UE for as long as I can remember and have yet to find an alternative that I like better.

@zod000: No surprise regarding EditPad Pro's excellent regular expression support. The author has a regex book coming out and also created the excellent application RegexBuddy. I am a happy owner of both apps. :-)

TopShelfCookieJar

Finally EditPad Lite is getting some love. Been using it since 1998.

I was wondering when people would get around to Editpad Lite! It's my preferred and default text editor on just about every system I use. :D

I absolutely LOVE it. I got turned on to it back when I was writing my sites in hand-coded HTML, and even now I use it to sift through page source, PHP templates, and CSS files. :D

After 10 years of use, EditPad is still my preferred text editor. Sure there are a lot of free options with similar features, but I feel like EditPad just integrates them all better.

GldRush98

Perhaps you should instead review this program - http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
Which IS free for the whole program. I only use it for AutoIt scripting, however there are lexers for many other languages including php, asp, html, perl, etc.

For php and html, I use EditPlus 2. However SciTE does work with these as well. EditPlus 2 just seems to have a lot more options like searching for long multi-line code like when you mod phpbb, also has macros, for when you need to do repetitive actions, and multiple tabs as well, which again I need when modding phpbb. Overall I use EditPlus 2, and nothing else.

Editpad Pro user here for many years. Both for programming and text editing. I have tried many others, but keep going back to my Editpad. It's nearly as powerful as vi, but and easier for the average user to use.

wrecklass

love it, love it, love it! my fav plain text editor for some years now. excellent search function too!

I don't like the fact that the regular expression support is not free for this editor.

ClydeCreon

I was attracted by the 'brief' reference. I still use CodeWright and haven't found anything I like better in 10 years - I'm going to give this a try.

RaymondGlocks

I started out using EditPad Lite and soon upgraded to Pro about 8 years ago. I have never looked back and am constantly discovering new features. I have tried other editors and always come back to EditPad. It's about time somebody gave it the attention it deserves

MarioWorm

I wish I could find an editor that had an AWK-based macro language, like the old DOS editor SPE used. I've seen lots of text editors that did pretty much the same stuff, but nobody seems to want to put the real power in the user's hands. EditPad Lite or Pro is no different, and no better, than all the rest.

DenaBuffalo

I have been using EditPad Pro for a couple of years. I love it. Its one of the best tools out there.

SadhviSahagin

I've been loving EditPad Lite for several years now. I wish I still had the free version from 2005 or so, which had more features than current version.

But still -- tabs, unlimited file size, customizable interface... And it loads almost instantly.