subpad v1.8

Midas on 13 Feb 2021
  • 473KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 24 Jan 2006
  • Suggested by Kenny

subpad is a lightweight Notepad clone with fast find/replace, most recent documents, close on ESC, roll-up caption bar, toggle off/on URL highlighting, column selection mode and stay-on-top.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch subpad.exe.
What's new? New in v1.8
* Fix autocomplete issue

New in v1.7
* Fix remaining wordwrap annoyances

New in v1.6
* WordWrap settings saved between sessions
* Fix annoying memory leak, related to wordwrap
* Filename displays in tray icon now

New in v1.5:
* Add VB Script highlighter
* Wordwrap settings preserved

New in v1.0.4:
* Replace functions improved
* Added Ruby highlighter
* Added word and byte count

New in v1.0.3:
* Added wordwrap toolbar button
* Fixed very annoying flicker in column selection mode
* Created accelerator keys for column and normal selection modes
* Added line selection mode
* Added text case formatting for upper, lower, sentence, and inverted cases
* Added Python highlighter
* Added "Save Only Selected" text feature

New in v1.0.1:
* Small bugfixes

New in v1.0.0:
* Added toolbar
* Added insert hex color dialog
* Added ini file syntax highlighting

New in v0.9.1.9:
* made subpad completely USB compatible: it stores all MRU and settings in an ini file
(there are two ini files in subpad's directory: one called "subpad.ini" with all
the main settings, and another ini file called "subpadrecent.ini", with all the most
recent docs)

New in v0.9.1.8:
* fixed: sometimes cursor position did not update when keys pressed
* recent files now holds 8 files

New in v0.9.1.7:
* Added Completion proposal drop-down list
* Improved autocomplete: it now can execute multiline clips

New in v0.9.1.6:
* Added export to html
* Added perl highlighters
* Now stores all user settings in application directory

New in v0.9.1.5:
* Added "Show Whitespace"
* Added highlighters for Pascal, C++, Java and XML

New in v0.9.1.4:
* Added the ability to add subpad to the "Send To" menu in Explorer

New in v0.9.1.3:
* Fix status bar showing file "unsaved" even though "undo" stack is empty
* Added Auto-Complete by entering a keyword. subpad will recognize the key
combination, "Ctrl+J" and auto-complete the typed string with the snippet
which you choose to correspond with the keyword typed. The snippets are
stored in the program's folder in a file called "templates.dci"

New in v0.9.1.2:
* Remove ALT+Drag as method to invoke column select, and go back to the
toggle method from menu.
* Add Run External dialog.
* Add Preferences dialog, plus customizable gutter: either show gutter, or
turn it into a "selection" bar by making it same colour as the edit.
* Turn the html hi-lighting into a multi-hilighter for a combination of
html, javascript, css and php.

New in v0.9.1:
* Added the ability to use column select by using "ALT" + Drag method.
* Added auto-hide scrollbars.
* Added drag and drop editing.

New in v0.9.0:
* Added the ability to assign external tools.

10 comments on subpad  The Portable Freeware Collection Latest Entries Feed

Midas 2021-02-13 14:28

xtort.net website gone -- SubPad last known location was http://www.xtort.net/xtort/subpad.php; links redirected to Archive.org.

v1.8

TP109 2014-12-28 03:32

Lightning fast text editor. Works nicely as a notepad replacement.

v1.8

smaragdus 2014-04-03 02:01

It seems subpad can't handle Unicode.

v1.8

Midas 2013-05-10 23:32

Thank you for the update, joby_toss. :)

v1.8

IanFromBarrie 2013-05-10 15:56

The spacing issue with non-monospace fonts seems to be in the display of subpad ... the text prints correctly spaced.

v1.8

IanFromBarrie 2013-05-10 15:54

Unicode issues? I set the font to Arial and the spacing is unusual. For example, "come" renders as c o me ...

v1.8

joby_toss 2013-05-10 11:45

Homepage and download links fixed.

v1.8

Midas 2013-05-10 11:09

This is a really good 32 bit lightweight text editor, too bad it has gone AWOL...

v1.8

xrat 2010-02-04 12:22

Website and Download links return "404 not found", and I couldn't find new official sources.

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