Software Update: EditPad 5.0

Notepad is sufficient for editing simple text files on the Windows platform. However, those who want more functionalities will soon have to look for another package. EditPad is a perfect solution and version 5.0 has been available for a few days now. Our submitter has shortened the list of features to the following points:

• You can open as many files at a time as you want.
• EditPad does not impose a limit on the size of files you can open and edit with it. Also, the maximum length of a single line is not limited.
• Unlimited undo and redo. You can even undo changes after saving them, as long as you did not close the file.
• If you run EditPad again when there is already an instance running, the file(s) you wish to edit will be opened by the existing EditPad window.
• Block functions: horizontal and vertical blocks supported.
• You can specify many print settings: font, margins, headers/footers, etc. and immediately see the effects in the print preview.
• Reopen menu that lists the last 16 files opened.
• EditPad puts an icon in the system tray that remains visible, even if EditPad is closed.
• EditPad fully supports double byte character systems (DBCS) so you can edit texts written in Far East languages, such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
• Many settings such as word wrap, line numbering and auto indent can be made for each file type individually.
• EditPad reads and writes UNIX (LF only) and Mac (CR only) text files (in addition to DOS/Win CR+LF files, of course).
• ROT-13 standard used on the Usenet for making (possibly) offensive texts illegal.
• Uppercase, lowercase, invert case and initial caps conversion
• ANSI OEM (DOS ASCII) conversion allowing you to continue using old files created under DOS.
• ANSI Unicode conversion (UCS-2 and UTF-8)