Top 15 AkelPad Alternative and Similar Softwares | Mar 2024

A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages.

Features

* Single window (SDI), multi-window (MDI) and pseudo multi-window modes (PMDI);
* Editing of files, which size is more than 64K (generally speaking, size isn't theoretically limited);
* Full support of Unicode strings on Unicode systems (NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Seven);
* Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-32BE);
* Support of any codepage installed in the system;
* Support of DOS/Windows, Unix and Mac newline formats;
* Preview file open;
* Correct pseudographics displaying;
* Column text selection;
* Multi-level undo;
* Fast search/replace text strings;
* Remember file codepage and caret position;
* Printing of a document and print preview;
* Support of language modules;
* Plugins support (syntax highlighting, folding, auto-completion, scripts execution, keyboard macros and much more). ...

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