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.
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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. |
Lightning fast text editor. Works nicely as a notepad replacement.
v1.8
It seems subpad can't handle Unicode.
v1.8
Thank you for the update, joby_toss. :)
v1.8
The spacing issue with non-monospace fonts seems to be in the display of subpad ... the text prints correctly spaced.
v1.8
Unicode issues? I set the font to Arial and the spacing is unusual. For example, "come" renders as c o me ...
v1.8
Homepage and download links fixed.
v1.8
This is a really good 32 bit lightweight text editor, too bad it has gone AWOL...
v1.8
Try downloading at waybackmachine.
http://web.archive.org/web/20061008050117/http://www.xtort.net/xtort/subpad.php#download
Website and Download links return "404 not found", and I couldn't find new official sources.
xtort.net website gone -- SubPad last known location was http://www.xtort.net/xtort/subpad.php; links redirected to Archive.org.
v1.8