If you’re looking for a good alternative to Windows Notepad, then you will be happy you stumbled across this program. EditPad Lite is a great freeware text editor that has been developed as a replacement for Notepad. It is able to do everything that Notepad can do with some extra features you may find extremely useful.

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WHAT IS IT AND WHAT DOES IT DO

Main Functionality

EditPad Lite is a freeware text editor that is designed to completely replace your Notepad program. It offers everything that Notepad does plus a lot more. Whether you’re looking for a program that has larger file support or one that can even offer you a tabbed interface, EditPad Lite has you covered.

EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. EditPad Lite is extremely configurable. Many settings can be made per file type. This allows you to automatically enable coding features when. About EditPad Lite and EditPad Pro. EditPad Lite is a basic text editor that is free for non-commercial use. EditPad Pro is a powerful and convenient text editor, totally useful for all your text editing tasks such as writing, web authoring and programming. You can buy EditPad Pro for only US$ 59.95. Why You Want EditPad Pro instead of Lite. Here you can specify how EditPad Lite will handle files. Create new or delete current shortcuts with a simple click. And specify System Tray behavior, effects on your registry, and browser access/opening. EditPad Lite is a wonderful text editor to have installed on any computer.

Note: If you like, you can think of this as a Wordpad replacement instead of a Notepad replacement.

Pros

• Tabbed interface that allows you to work with multiple files easily
• Offers larger file and line support than Notepad
• Allows for full Unicode support. This does include complex scripts and right-to-left scripts
• Search and replace tool that works extremely well
• Offers unlimited undo and redo for all opened files (even after saving)
• Just like Word, it offers automatic backup and working copies to help prevent data loss in the event of a crash
• Allows for direct editing of text files using Windows, UNIX and Mac text encoding
• The installer allows you to choose between multiple options, including a standard and advanced installation and a portable version that can be saved onto a USB device
• Covert option allows you to convert files between: ANAI, ASCII, Unicode, UNIX and Mac
• Able to apply simple ROT-13 encoding and decoding to text as well

Cons

• If you don’t need an advanced replacement for Notepad, you are probably better off going with an actual word processing program

Discussion

EditPad Lite is a program that is made to replace your Notepad. For anyone who does not use Notepad, you might as well look somewhere else, because this program is not going to offer you anything that you’re not getting from a word processing program. For others that “prefer” Notepad, this program has a lot to offer.

First, let’s get into some of the extra features that EditPad Lite offers. Unlike Notepad, it offers a tabbed interface. This means, you can actually work on multiple documents at the same time easily. On top of that, Editpad Lite supports larger file and line support than Notepad as well.

One of the coolest features offered by Editpad Lite is the “Convert” tool located towards the top of the program. This tool can help with lowercase, uppercase, initial caps, invert case, and even text encoding. However, you will also notice that it can convert files between ANAI, ASCII and Unicode. It is also able to convert to UNIX and Mac formats (in some cases).

As you can see, Editpad Lite has a lot to offer that Notepad simply cannot. Typically, I would not be interested in a program that offers more than Notepad, because it is not something I use often. However, this has so much to offer and comes with the magical price tag of “free” that it is hard to overlook.

CONCLUSION AND DOWNLOAD LINK

I highly recommend Editpad Lite for anyone who is looking to replace Notepad. It has too many great features not to be considered. Best of all, it is completely free! Unless you simply know that you would never use such a program, you should at least have this one on your computer. It is pretty small and not resource hungry.

Price: Free

Version reviewed: 7.2.1

Supported OS: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7

Editpad Lite 8

Download size: 9MB

VirusTotal malware scan results: 0/43

Is it portable? Yes (portable version offered during installation)

EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. EditPad Lite is extremely configurable. Many settings can be made per file type. This allows you to automatically enable coding features when you are editing source code, while enabling other writing features when you are editing other text files. EditPad Lite sports one of the most extensive search-and-replace features of any text editor. Quickly find the part of the file you want to edit. Automate much tedious editing with clever use of EditPad Lite's search-and-replace. EditPad Lite handles DOS/Windows, UNIX/Linux and Macintosh line breaks. Open and save text files encoded in Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32), any Windows code page, any ISO-8859 code page, and a variety of DOS, Mac, EUC, EBCDIC, and other legacy code pages. Convert files between any of these encodings.

EditPad Lite is free for personal use only. If you use EditPad Lite at home or at school for purposes that don't generate money, you can download the free version of EditPad Lite without any kind of payment or registration.
EditPad Lite has all the essential features to make text editing a breeze:

• Large file and long line support.
• Full Unicode support, including complex scripts and right-to-left scripts.
• Direct editing of text files using Windows, UNIX, and mac Mac text encodings (code pages) and line breaks.
• Tabbed interface for working with many files.
• Unlimited undo and redo for all open files, even after saving.
• Automatic backup and working copies prevent data loss.
• Powerful search-and-replace with literal search terms and regular expressions that can span multiple lines.

EditPad Lite 7.6.4 changelog:

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Improvements

Editpad Lite Pro

• Character map: Minimum cell size now scales on high DPI systems, keeping large character sets like Unicode legible.

• File tabs are now better proportioned on high DPI systems.

• Windows 10: Installer now deals with Controlled Folder Access more efficiently when Windows Defender is operational and ignores it when Windows Defender is not operational, ensuring a smoother installation on Windows 10 1709 (Fall Creators Update) and 1803 (April 2018 Update).

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Bug fixes

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• File Types|Encoding: Default line break style is now used when opening an existing file that does not have any line breaks.

• Saving an existing file failed if the file was in use by another application even when that application did not keep a write lock on the file.

• Search: Highlighting regex matches with the Inverted Line By Line search option turned on did not work correctly (7.6.x only).

Download: EditPad Lite 7.6.4 | 9.1 MB (Free for Personal Use)
Download: EditPad Pro 7.6.4 | 11.9 MB (Shareware)
View: EditPad Lite Website | EditPad Pro Release Notes