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Gwennel Doc v0.15

billon on 29 May 2018
  • 359KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Dec 2013
  • Suggested by Cornflower

Gwennel is a lightweight word processor that takes an innovative approach to formatting options by separating them into a tree-like structure. This is useful for handling long documents with clear, organized formatting tools or for users who wish to focus on the text first and formatting second. Any style changes (such as headings, lists, or colors) are propagated throughout the entire document and, although only able to open and save OpenDocument (.odt) files, this makes the program a capable WYSIWYG editor. Additionally, users can open existing files and make rapid changes to the entire document.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch gwennel.exe.
What's new?
  • New Feature: basic find command.
  • Bug fix: use the text color of paragraph for bullets.
  • The executable is no longer packed with UPX because of all those crappy antivirus.
Latest comments
Cornflower on 2010-07-30 13:50

It is not at all intuitive, but once you play with it a bit, It comes together.
I probably won't use it on my own computers where Open Office Portable is much handier, but as I like to keep my usb key light, I keep it there. Hint: go over your Open Office documents and see what styles you like to use, and update the openoffice-style.gwen template. I found this makes it more user friendly, as I am dealing with my own tastes.

tpig on 2011-03-12 06:57

I've tested it. I does support Unicode.

Midas on 2014-12-07 21:45

See also Gwennel Web: http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12395 ...

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NoteTab Light v7.2

webfork on 18 Dec 2015
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Nov 2014
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

NoteTab Light is a free tabbed text editor and HTML editor. Includes favorites, clipboard text storage, text and file encryption, hash, and various encoding options for UUEncode, UNICODE. Supports built-in scripting/macro support for a variety of functions including FTP.

Note: Light version can't rearrange tabs, color-code HTML, and does not include multi-level undo.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware. Includes many references and features and tools restricted to premium version.
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a temporary folder
  2. Move the contents of the {app} to a folder of your choice
  3. Create an empty file named NoteTab.ini within this folder
  4. Launch NoteTab.exe
Similar/alternative apps: NotePad++, EditPad Lite
What's new?
  • Updated the regular expressions engine to the latest version (based on PCRE 8.36).
  • Added 10 new Clip commands.
  • Added new shortcut to insert « French quotation marks » around selected text: Ctrl+Alt+,
  • Added “Full Name in Title Bar” setting on General tab in Options dialog box. Check this option to display the current document name with the full folder path. Uncheck it to hide the folder path.
  • Added “Open All” command to File > Reopen submenu.
  • Added new shortcut to close a document tab and cancel the “Save changes” prompt: Ctrl + Middle Mouse Button click on tab.
  • When using the “Close All Documents” feature, the list of closed files is now automatically stored under the “Close All” Favorites category list. The warning prompt is now only displayed if more than 16 documents are about to be closed.
  • Removed the "Save Changes" prompt when closing a modified but empty document that has never been saved to disk.
  • Reintroduced the auto-complete feature in the search dialog combobox fields.
  • Improved Calculate Expression feature by increasing bracket limit from 40 to 100.
  • Improved Calculate Expression feature, which now supports the × and ÷ operators as equivalent to the * and / symbols. Example:
    4×7÷2=14
    works the same way as
    4*7/2=14
  • Improved font sharpness when run under Windows high DPI settings.
  • Improved setting file-type associations with NoteTab (note that associations set with previous versions may not show in Options).
  • Fixed several syntax highlighting issues in NoteTab Pro that occurred when text contained tab characters.
  • Fixed issue with “Match Directory” and “Use Default Directories” options.
  • Fixed infrequent issue that resulted in no selected document tab (usually after closing a document).
  • Several other minor improvements and fixes.
  • Updated documentation.
Latest comments
Ennovy on 2015-11-27 22:48

How to extract (alternative):
1. Download the installer and extract to a temporary folder
2. Move the contents of the {app} to a folder of your choice
3. Create an empty file NoteTab.ini in the application folder
4. Launch NoteTab.exe

shnbwmn on 2015-12-06 12:03

Nothing to see here. There are far better, completely freeware text editors out there. First that comes to mind is Notepad++, which also has its own plugin system.

shnbwmn on 2015-12-06 12:06

For those of you that want something even better, there's Atom, from the developers behind Github. Portable, modern interface, and fully extensible. I don't think you can ask for better.

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Kudaz MDI v2.2.1.2

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by rbon

Kudaz is a user-friendly programmer's editor with selective syntax-highlighting capabilities that currently supports 53 languages/scripts. Among the many features: advanced "Find In Files"; fully user-configurable automatic word correction, code-completion and source template support; support for Unix/Macintosh/Windows line formats; detection of current file change by other applications.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application Folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Kudaz.exe.
What's new? ·
Fixed: Selection Mode was not retained.
· Fixed: A file without an extension was not detected or identified.
· Fixed: At times 'Open from Favorite' menu was not properly displayed.
· Fixed: [Options >> Edit >> Tab Size] was not stored and restored.
· Fixed: [View In Browser] didn't work fine.
· Fixed: Temporarily created files from via [View In Browser] was not
· deleted porperly.
· Fixed: [Options >> Edit >> Word Wrap on by Default] was not stored and
· restored.
· Fixed: [Options >> Edit >> Extended >> Enable Undo after Save] was not
· stored and restored.
Latest comments
bwaha on 2010-04-17 18:40

i 'd already dl a "portable" v2.1.0.1 from softpedia. it just unzips. creates some files in same folder (or subfolder) on 1st run. readme says willcreate a strokes.bin also, but did not notice that (but didn't search hdd for that file, or search for filedate of time of 1st run of kudaz)
download page on kudaz geocities.jp is a bit confusing. 2.1.0.1 ver number is same as here (as of now and softpedia when i dled). further down on kudaz page are two diff updates of the executable.
kudazeo.zip 9/9/2007, kudaz.exe 1/28/2007 properties 2.2.9.7 v2.1.0.1 Service Release 3 (all of which matches the exe in the softpedia dl)
kdzeof.zip 1/27/2007, kudaz.exe 9/9/2007 properties 2.3.0.1 readmef says "v2.1.0.1 SR-3h ", which seems to be the not stable version.

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EverEdit v2.9.0.2074

webfork on 5 Nov 2016
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Nov 2013
  • Suggested by avi-aryan

EverEdit is a fast, lightweight, skinnable and extendable editor. While it can serve as a Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers including snippet support, markdown support with instant preview, syntax highlighting for many languages, full Emmet Support aka Zen Coding, multiple selection (smart rename), and more.

The program includes a hex editor and easily edits large files (1 Gig+).

Note: v2.9.0.2074 is (presently) the last freeware version, which is no longer hosted by the authors. We are linking to majorgeeks for the 32-bit version and archive.org for the 64-bit version (thanks DzejPy and lintalist).

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch everedit.exe

Optionally:
  • To disable auto-check for update: open setting.ini in a text editor and add AutoUpdate=4 under [Setting]
  • Delete unnecessary language files. 1033.lng = English, 1041.lng = Japanese
    2052.lng = Chinese
What's new? Note: v2.9.0.2074 is (presently) the last freeware version

Note by the author: "I will not add new features for 2.9xx., but I will continue fix the bugs for this version."
Latest comments
Midas on 2014-05-13 09:59

FYI, the commercial EverEdit v3.2.2.3678 was released on 2014/05/13...

(http://www.everedit.net/news/)

DzejPy on 2016-11-03 19:05

Download links do not work... Error 404.
32bit version is available here: http://jdem.cz/cjg3v4 (redirected to FTP server)
64bit version is available here: http://jdem.cz/cjg3x9 (redirected to FTP server)
32bit version is also available MajorGeeks: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/everedit.html

webfork on 2016-11-05 23:09

Thanks DzejPy

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HM NIS Edit v2.0.3

Checker on 8 May 2013
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by CriminalF

HM NIS Edit is an editor/IDE for Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS). It comes with a script wizard that is able to create standard setup programs with only a few clicks. There is also an InstallOptions designer that helps you create your own custom pages with a friendly drag-and-drop user interface.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder. Make sure you create a blank file called nisedit.ini in the same folder as nisedit.exe before running the application for the first time.
License: zlib/libpng
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice.
  2. Remove [NSIS].nsi and $PLUGINSDIR.
  3. Create a blank text file called nisedit.ini in the same folder.
  4. Launch nisedit.exe.

Extreme Editor v7.1.2.5

webfork on 13 Oct 2019

Extreme Editor is a tabbed programmer's text editor. It has a minimalist interface without eye candy or color buttons. The program includes a full-screen mode, syntax highlighting for many different languages, text formatting, and a simple hex viewer.

Note: Main site offline - linking to Softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application Folder
Unicode support: No
License: BSD
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch eedit.exe.
What's new?
  • Added a new menu to File menu: Exit On Last Tab. If this is checked then Extreme Editor will close the program when the last tab is closed. If this is not checked then a new blank file will be created.
Latest comments
TP109 on 2012-01-20 08:18

This is an extremely fast launching tabbed editor. Although light on features, it's very good for quickly scanning files and makes a good notepad replacement.

smaragdus on 2014-09-05 00:13

It seems that Extreme Editor has been abandoned long time ago. It's minimalistic and extremely light but lacks essential features such as URL detection and encoding (it is useless with Unicode characters).

Midas on 2014-12-05 16:53

Last Wayback Machine webpage snapshot is at http://v.ht/EE71 ...

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Notepad2 v4.2.25

webfork on 20 Sep 2020
  • 677KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Oct 2012
  • Suggested by justin

Notepad2 is a small and fast text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages. It supports modeless find and replace dialogs, multi-line find and replace operations (using backslash expressions), optional file change notification, etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: BSD
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Notepad2.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: EditPad Lite
What's new?
  • - "Align Lines" with several options (Alt+J)
  • - "Modify Lines" supports several variables to insert numbers (Alt+M)
  • - "Sort Lines" (Alt+O) handles column sort (rectangular selection)
  • - "Sort Lines" also handles shuffle, remove duplicates and uniques
  • - "Merge Blank Lines" block command (Alt+Y)
  • - Use built-in Windows functionality for "Title Case" on Windows 7
  • - Convert between characters and hex codes (Ctrl+Alt+X, Ctrl+Alt+C)
  • - "Recode file as default encoding" (Ctrl+Shift+F)
  • - UTF-16 and UTF-16 BE formats are valid recoding options
  • - Enable case-insensitive searching for non-ASCII text
  • - Regex quantifier ? to match 0 or 1 times
  • - Regex quantifiers * and + available as non-greedy forms *? and +?
  • - Regex syntax for tagged regions simplified from \(...\) to (...)
  • - Updated HTML5 and CSS3 schemes according to current working drafts
  • - Updated Assembly scheme with x64 and SSE4 instructions
  • - Several minor updates to syntax schemes and keywords
  • - Merged caret styles into a single item and added "noblink" option
  • - /l and /l- cmd switches to control auto-reloading of modified files
  • - Ini-option to specify auto-reload timeout (see FAQ on my website)
  • - Support combination of /g and /m command line switches
  • - /o and /o- cmd switches to control "Always on top" option
  • - Copy window position to clipboard as cmd line switch (Ctrl+Shift+K)
  • - Move window to default position on current screen (Ctrl+Shift+P)
  • - Fixed Notepad .LOG feature (broken since 4.1.24)
  • - Launch command uses current file directory as working directory
  • - Don't lock any directories except the one containing Notepad2.exe
  • - Forward system MRU, taskbar and jump list behaviour to new windows
  • - Always show file name extensions (ignore Windows Explorer setting)
  • - Check availability of "Consolas" when set as default font
  • - Support a few more file variables (see FAQ on my website)
  • - Configure whether backspace should reformat indenting whitespace
  • - Transform backslashes function understands \u#### hex codes
  • - Several F2, F3 and F4 hotkeys work in find and replace dialogs
  • - Removed "Select Up" and "Select Down" buttons from find dialog
  • - Ini-options to block suppression of notification messages
  • - Simplified appearance of word wrap settings dialog
  • - Remapped "Unescape C Special Chars" to Ctrl+Alt+R (fix duplicate)
  • - Reloading keeps scrolling position more unerringly with word wrap
  • - Jumps with /g switch locate position more accurately with word wrap
  • - Various internal optimizations and fixes
  • - Improved look of disabled toolbar buttons on Windows XP and above
  • - Improved overall look of toolbar buttons on Windows 2k
  • - Lower frequency of NFS access delays by caching file display names
  • - Improved compatibility with Windows 7
  • - Released x64 build of Notepad2.exe
  • - Updated Scintilla library to 2.24

Full changelog is at http://www.flos-freeware.ch/doc/Notepad2.txt.
Latest comments
outskirter on 2011-12-08 04:07

I dropped Notepad++ in favor of this one. Notepad++ is rapidly turning into bloatware. Notepad2 does not need plugins for its features, and so it is faster and much more compact, while still full of useful features.

Someone mentioned AkelPad. Some of its plugins don't work too well, and the syntax highlighting of HTML files isn't nearly as good as that of Notepad2.

Midas on 2012-07-01 01:24

There's now a x64 build of Notepad2. But can someone please explain to me how to get the "Open shell links" feature, so strings like www.someurl.com or adress@server.net will launch when clicked in Notepad2?

domestique on 2013-10-25 00:27

I've tried them all over the years, including the modded version, but keep coming back to Flo's original. Small; fast; no distractions. Other notepad replacements often have too many options. The only thing I would add is a tabbed interface, but it's not a deal-breaker. Using the built-in Favourites and coupled with Flo's own metapath (http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1701), it's almost perfect for the way I work.

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Firstobject XML Editor v2.4.2

webfork on 7 May 2015
  • 992KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Cornflower

Firstobject XML Editor (or "Foxe") loads multi-megabyte files quickly and lets you format and edit HTML, or any other loosely formed markup language such as XML. The tree view is customizable for useful navigation.

Other features include syntax coloring, word wrap, Go To Line, show XML path, Microsoft global IME, and MSXML based DTD validation.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial. Able to display Unicode text with proper font selected, unable to deal with Unicode filenames.
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch foxe.exe.

Go to "Tools" --> "Preference" to select a location to store settings.
What's new?
  • filename first in foxe title bar
  • -run on command line arguments
  • period for data value in tree customization
  • foal: increased the size limit on num
  • foal: CMarkup updates
  • foal: fix for file read mode *Thank you Aditya Raut!
  • foal: StrTrim with optional flag 1=left, 2=right
  • Watch mode in the View menu
  • Watch file extensions in Preferences
Latest comments
CodesAway on 2010-07-03 05:00

Version 2.4.1.416 was released today. The version stays 2.4.1, but the build is 416, versus 404, which was the previous build.

olliebean on 2013-10-26 17:51

The current version of this (v2.4.2.431) isn't stealth; it leaves a bunch of registry keys (albeit all empty) at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\First Objective Software\foxe.

I am Baas on 2013-10-27 00:54

@olliebean
Firstobject XML Editor is stealth. Did you select "Executable Folder" for settings location (under preferences)?

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SavageEd v1.4.6

Midas on 5 Jul 2021
  • 132KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Nov 2010
  • Suggested by Fluffy Bot

SavageEd is a very small and fast Windows notepad replacement written in assembly language. It can edit files of any size, limited only by memory.

NOTE: Website is gone, linking to Internet Archive Wayback Machine; SavageEd2 is now available with some more features.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Make sure you select Options, Save Configuration, Use Private Profile to activate this.
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SavageEd.exe.
Latest comments
Ludwig von Drake on 2010-05-28 18:51

Crashes whenever I try to open a file, either through the File menu, or via the Ctrl-O keyboard shortcut. It does this on both of my PCs (XP Pro SP3).

ChemZ on 2011-03-27 21:23

SavageEd2 v0.02.00 beta is available for testing. New features:
- Pattern searching
- AES encryption with 256 bit key (32 characters)
- Auto save and quick ESC exit
- Dual direction LOG files (append updates to 'end of file' or 'top of file')
- Saves up to 20 recent files

donald on 2011-11-14 08:27

The software Author has stated that the original SavageEd will no longer be developed, but that SavageEd2 will.

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Q-Jot v5.9.1

Midas on 13 Feb 2021
  • 614KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Dec 2008
  • Suggested by Kenny

QJot is a rich text editor and WordPad replacement that can open various Word, Works, HTML, and even WordPerfect files. It also supports rich Unicode text and images and can 'Recover Text from Any File'. Saves to RTF, TXT, HTML formats, various DOC file formats, and WordPerfect.

Webpage offline; redirected to Softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice Launch QJot.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: AbiWord, Jarte
What's new?
  • Fixed line spacing bug.
Latest comments
donald on 2014-06-28 05:51

download link is broken

smaragdus on 2015-09-05 21:03

The actual QJot web page address- http://xtort.net/xtort-software/qjot/

webfork on 2015-09-06 01:51

smaragdus: thanks, updated

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