Comments on: Akelpad a lightweight Notepad alternative

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:52:49 +0000

Metapad has worked great for me for years. This notepad replacement looks programming oriented.

I take class notes in a text editor, because I got tired of trying to covert all those document files. Text will always be around.

GVIM is great for programming too, with many language syntax sensitivities.

By: gokudomatic

gokudomatic — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:30:28 +0000

I agree, Thinker. myself, I use notepad++ for everything usual, and pspad for web editing or special tasks (huge or regex replace through folders, quick edit source codes, hexa edit…). Too bad it hasn’t code folding feature.
and in survival situations, when nothing else work anymore, vim.

By: Thinker

Thinker — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:48:25 +0000

I prefer editpad, looks better for me, and for php, html, js and css there is no better editor than pspad :)

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:23:14 +0000

MaPetiteMort, there will be request from WFP after replacing installation, but you have just to answer that you want keep new file.

By: MaPetiteMort

MaPetiteMort — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:26:54 +0000

Replacing completely the notepad is a nice feature! So you don’t have to do it manually (WFP Disabling)

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:12:20 +0000

Forgot to say…

1) Akelpad can replace Notepad completely (special installation mode).
2) One of the most precious feature in Akelpad for Russian-speaking users is it’s ability to work with popular Russian encodings. Many western-made Notepad replacers lack it. And it supports not only Russian, but many other encodings too :)

By: gokudomatic

gokudomatic — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:43:08 +0000

for real lightweight plain text editor that can read infinite documents, (I know it will shock but) there is still the win32 gvim. and win32 vim for the worst case.
I don’t like vi but I must admit that it works, and it’s still better than notepad.

By: marsflip

marsflip — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:55:51 +0000

If I may suggest another lite/light notepad replacement, take a look at TED Notepad (http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/). This notepad replacement is not suited for code editing but has a lot of great features focusing on plain-text, like enhanced find and replace, case conversion, clipboard swap, column editing, sorting, etc.
Martin, how about taking a look at TED Notepad, and perhaps post a comparison to Akelpad?

By: Akelpad, otro sustituto para Notepad

Akelpad, otro sustituto para Notepad — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:04:50 +0000

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By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:06:56 +0000

I’m using both Akelpad and Notepad++, and satisfied with them. I like to use one “lite” Notepad replacement (for plaintext or plaintext + URL files editing), and one midweight – for code editing, with advanced functions (code folding, syntax highlighting) – in that Notepad++ are much better, than Akelpad.