TED Notepad

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TED Notepad

TED Notepad 5.2.1
Developed by Juraj Simlovic
Latest release 5.3.1 / April 18, 2007
OS Microsoft Windows
Genre Text editor
License Freeware
Website http://jsimlo.sk/notepad

TED Notepad is a freeware text editor for Microsoft Windows. The software has been developed by Juraj Simlovic since 2001, originally as a school project. It has a similar cosmetic look to Notepad, but provides more features for advanced plain-text editing. The application is portable, which means that it does not require installation and can store its settings on USB flash drive. TED Notepad includes several innovative features, like second search, relative go to line jumping or line completion.

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[edit] Overview

Key features of TED Notepad include 9 supplemental permanent clipboards, high accessibility through hotkeys, large variety of text-processing tools, and many settings and options. Support for Unicode and UTF-8 encodings, bi-directional editing and transparent support for Unix and Mac newlines is also included.

Amongst innovative features, there is a secondary search, which allows to look for two different things at the same time. The search also allows to select text between the actual position and the next occurrence. Goto dialog offers to select text upon jumping or to jump relatively to the current position.

Another innovative feature is a line completion. Along the standard word completion, based on a dictionary of the actual document, TED Notepad provides a way to complete words also according to similar lines. In comparison to the word completion, the line completion is capable of completing punctuation, special characters and code operators. Therefore, completing source code by similar lines can be sometimes more efficient than a completing by words, especially on lines with many operators and braces.

[edit] Text tools

The most visible characteristic of the editor is the amount of text tools it offers. Starting with basic tools for letter case conversions and conversions of newlines between platforms, one can also find tools for reversing text, lines or words. The tools menu also offers tools for enhanced replacing, unwrapping (joining) lines of paragraphs, committing actual word wrapping, tools that (un)indent or (un)tabify text, tools for including and excluding files, inserting date and time or actual file name.

The application offers a dialog for sorting lines that is probably the most exhaustive out there. Unusual unique lines tool provides a method to exclude duplicate lines or to count them. Translate characters tool resembles a converter between character sets and a very simple cryptographic tool. Cutting of columns and adding numbers to them repays the missing block selections. At the end of the tour, there are extensive text statistics that calculate about 12 different things about text.

The author of the software also added a support for user defined text plugins. Its manual describes how to write a new text tool and how to launch it from the main application.

[edit] Other features

Other practical features may include:

  • Favorite Esc key exit.
  • Many hotkeys.
  • Several internal clipboards for usual cliché.
  • File size limited only by actual memory available.
  • Word completion, based on the actual file dictionary - the words are offered according to words already typed.
  • Copy word/line above that quickly inserts words typed directly above - very handy for writing lists, where each line starts with the same/similar words.
  • Favorite files menu.
  • Auto indentation and Tabs as Spaces.
  • Minimize to System tray and stay on top.

[edit] Awards and reviews

  • "Pricelessware" award from alt.comp.freeware participants in 2007[1].
  • "Top 10 Freeware" awards from editors of Freeware-Guide.com in March 2006[2], June 2006[3], July 2006[4] and November 2006[5].
  • "6/6 ranking" and "100% Virus & Spyware Clean" award from editors of NoNags.com[6].
  • "100% clean software" award from Softpedia.com reporting no adware, spyware or viruses present[7].
  • Multiple reviews by editors of IDG media in November 2006[8] and January 2007[9].
  • Review by editors of Svet Kompjutera in December 2006[10].

[edit] April Fools' hoax

On April 1, 2007, Juraj Simlovic pulled an April Fools' hoax on the official web-page of the project. He claimed that Microsoft was going to acquire all TED Notepad sources and copyrights for $701.556, which was the current size of the source code (in bytes). The author, would no longer hold the right to develop and further distribute the program or its portions.[11]

According to the report, which was added later to the same site, the hoax took its price in visit count and visit-to-download rate.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pricelessware 2007 TEXT
  2. ^ Top 10 Freeware - March 2006
  3. ^ Top 10 Freeware - June 2006
  4. ^ Top 10 Freeware - July 2006
  5. ^ Top 10 Freeware - November 2006
  6. ^ NONAGS Text Editors - Freeware
  7. ^ Download TED Notepad 5.3.1 - TED Notepad is a light-weight plain-text editor with many hotkeys, clipboards and inovative features - Softpedia
  8. ^ Bästa textbehandlaren heter Ted och väger in på 116 kilobyte - IDG.se
  9. ^ Ted vinner på knockout - IDG.se
  10. ^ SVET KOMPJUTERA - PD KUTAK - TED Notepad 5.0.1
  11. ^ TED Notepad - An expanding Notepad replacement

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