The document window keeps open text files in tabs, so notes, logs, and configuration files can stay together while you work. EditPad combines this multi-document layout with large-file support and search-and-replace tools.
Tabs and text-file editing
Selecting a tab switches between documents without closing the others. This suits editing several related files at once, such as comparing log entries or moving text between a note and a configuration file.
EditPad handles plain-text documents with Unicode, including right-to-left scripts, and recognizes line breaks used by Windows, UNIX, and Mac files. Code-page support also accommodates text saved in different encodings. Unlimited undo and redo let you back out of a long series of edits, while automatic backups provide another safeguard for changes.
How does search-and-replace work?
Search-and-replace can work with regular expressions, so a search can target text patterns as well as a literal word or phrase. Repeated changes across a document, such as cleaning up log text or revising recurring entries, become a single operation.
- Search for text and replace matching content.
- Use regular expressions to describe more flexible match patterns.
Tools in EditPad Pro
The Pro edition adds capabilities for more involved text tasks. It supports very large files, offers spell checking and project organization, and can search files on disk. Its additional tools include hexadecimal editing, syntax coloring with bracket and tag matching, file comparison, and connections over FTP or SFTP. External tools and scripts can also be launched from the editor.
Pros
- Tabbed editing keeps multiple text files in one workspace
- Search-and-replace supports regular expressions
- Supports Unicode and Windows, UNIX, and Mac line endings
- Unlimited undo and redo, plus automatic backups
Can EditPad work with large text files?
Yes. Large-file support is included in EditPad Pro.
Does EditPad support regular expressions?
Yes. Search-and-replace can use regular expressions to match text patterns.
Which line endings and text encodings does EditPad support?
It supports Windows, UNIX, and Mac line breaks, along with Unicode and code pages.