AkelPad

AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast.


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Features

* Single window mode (SDI), multi window mode (MDI);
* Editing of files, which size is more than 64K (generally speaking, size isn't theoretically limited);
* Full support of Unicode strings on Unicode systems (NT/2000/XP/2003);
* Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-8);
* Support of any codepage installed in the system;
* Support of DOS/Windows, Unix and Mac newline formats;
* Preview file open;
* Correct pseudographics displaying;
* Column text selection;
* Multi-level undo;
* Fast search/replace text strings;
* Remember file codepage and caret position;
* Printing of a document and print preview;
* Support of language modules;
* Plugins support (syntax highlighting, auto-completion, scripts execution, keyboard macros and much more).

Operating Systems compatibility:
All 32-bit Windows (from Windows 95 to Windows 7)

License:
BSD License

Advantages:
In my opinion, this is the best Notepad replacement program.
Small and as fast as the original (Windows) notepad, but much more powerful.
Plugin architecture allows to add additional features like Autosave, Line Numbers, Macros, Toolbar, etc., etc.


Website: http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/index.php

why would this software be any better then Notepad++ or any of the other 2 text editors already on Liberkey?

I already have

• Notepad++
• PSPad
• RJ TextEd
• Programmer's Notepad

Do you recommend AkelPad against all listed above ?

Anakey wrote:why would this software be any better then Notepad++ or any of the other 2 text editors already on Liberkey?

• It's smaller
• It loads faster
• It uses less memory

akhouri_sarvesh wrote:I already have

• Notepad++
• PSPad
• RJ TextEd
• Programmer's Notepad

Do you recommend AkelPad against all listed above ?

I think that these are two different software categories. Notepad++, PSPad and RJ TextEd are "heavy-duty" text editors. They are all excellent programs (I use PSPad myself), but they're also much heavier than Window's Notepad. Of course that they have many more features.

On the other hand, many times you don't need ALL of the features that those editors provide but simply need a fast text editor that can handle the task. That's the other software category I'm talking about: a lightweight, fast-loading, but full-featured text editor. And that's where AkelPad excels.
A simple example will help to highlight these differences: I'm currently running both AkelPad and PSPad on my PC. AkelPad is using 1188 K of memory, PSPad is using 13024 K. Over 10 times more than AkelPad.
Yet AkelPad has a lot of features for such a small program. On top of what is mentioned in the program's description, please take a look of the additional functionality available through its many plugins.

In conclusion, I do recommend AkelPad over many other lightweight text editors, such as TED Notepad, Notepad2, Savage Ed, Metapad and Minipad2.

I forgot I am also using Getdiz for nfo and diz files. it is also a good text editor.

city_zen wrote:AkelPad is using 1188 K of memory, PSPad is using 13024 K. Over 10 times more than AkelPad.

As much as I know memory is not much of a concern these days and why should one worry - that too for a text editor?

The features are more important - with capacity to handle multiple language and format. I think "Notepad++" is a wise choice.

Anyway I have provided details of Programmer's Notepad also - just check.

akhouri_sarvesh wrote:As much as I know memory is not much of a concern these days and why should one worry - that too for a text editor?

I agree. Most systems today have at least 1 GB of RAM, so memory isn't much of a concern. I simply quoted the memory usage as a way of highlighting the differences I mentioned.

The features are more important - with capacity to handle multiple language and format. I think "Notepad++" is a wise choice.

Did you check AkelPad's features? And also the additional features provided by its plugins?
AkelPad can indeed handle multiple languages and formats.
In my case, I associated AkelPad to txt files and use it as a (Windows) Notepad replacement and lightweight text editor. If I happen to need to perform more heavy text editing, then I launch a full blown text editor like PSPad, Notepad++ or RJ TextEd.

Anyway I have provided details of Programmer's Notepad also - just check.

I just checked it. Looks like a good program.

city_zen wrote:Did you check AkelPad's features? And also the additional features provided by its plugins?

I have read, but will download and check.

AkelPad is now in LiberKey

opendev wrote:AkelPad is now in LiberKey

Great!
Thank you!

opendev wrote:AkelPad is now in LiberKey

Does the installer also includes plugins or we need to install it separately..??