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Notepad is such a horribly basic editor that there\u2019s now a host of more powerful alternatives, all competing for your attention. But if you\u2019ve sampled these then you\u2019ll know that they\u2019re often complex, aimed at programmers, and not so useful to people who don\u2019t need Perl syntax highlighting, 18 clipboards, or whatever other high-end options they\u2019re offering.<\/p>\n
NoteTab Light<\/a>, fortunately, takes a more mid-range approach. It has plenty of advanced features, it\u2019s very configurable (the Options dialog splits its many settings across 17 tabs), but is also easy to learn, and you\u2019ll quickly feel at home.<\/p>\n Launch the program, for instance, and it displays Readme.txt, WhatsNew.txt and templates files in separate tabs. And so browsing through these not only provides useful information on the program, but also gives you a basic feel for how the interface works.<\/p>\n Check out the menus and you\u2019ll find a nicely judged editing engine. It has plenty of functionality: you can drag and drop text selections; sort, split and join lines; indent and align text; create bulleted and numbered lists; run Find and Replace operations with regular expression support, and more. But it\u2019s also not as overwhelming as some of the more developer-oriented tools can be, and you may actually feel like you\u2019ll use most of the features (one day, anyway).<\/p>\n It\u2019s a similar story with the HTML functions. An HTML-CSS library displays all the important tags; double-click these, a dialog appears (when necessary) to help you configure them properly, and the code is automatically wrapped around the selected text.<\/p>\n There\u2019s also a neat Document to HTML feature, where you can create or open a text document, then have NoteTab Light add an HTML header, line breaks, paragraph tags and everything you need to transform it into a web page.<\/p>\n Extras like HTML Tidy integration help to clean up your code. But again, while these aren\u2019t aimed at beginners, they\u2019re not overly complex, either. You\u2019ll quickly get a feel for how everything works.<\/p>\n And there are plenty of interesting and more general editing options available. Like built-in expression evaluation (enter 2.481^3= , press Ctrl+E and the solution will be inserted for you). Tools to automatically capture text as it\u2019s pasted to the clipboard, and insert it into documents. And a series of Clipbook Libraries to automatically correct text, download and edit files from remote FTP servers, create websites with Twitter\u2019s Bootstrap framework, and more.<\/p>\n NoteTab Light does also have one or two restrictions (it\u2019s the free version of a commercial tool, and the developers are hoping you\u2019ll upgrade). The most notable issue is probably that you only have a single level of Undo. But it also has no spell checker, URL highlighting (in plain text files), or syntax highlighting.<\/p>\n On the plus side, though,\u00a0NoteTab Light<\/a>\u00a0has no adware, no nag screens or other marketing annoyances. It\u2019s free for personal or commercial use, and has no major dependencies on .NET or anything else, so runs happily on anything from Windows 98 through to Windows 8. And it\u2019s both powerful and usable, an awkward balancing act to pull off, but in our view the program gets it just right.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong> SueC<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n Notepad is such a horribly basic editor that there\u2019s now a host of more powerful alternatives, all competing for your attention. But if you\u2019ve sampled these then you\u2019ll know that they\u2019re often complex, aimed at programmers, and not so useful to people who don\u2019t need Perl syntax highlighting, 18 clipboards, or whatever other high-end options […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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