NoteTab Light is the ultimate free Notepad replacement and a capable HTML editor. A slimmer version of the award-winning NoteTab Pro, this slick application makes text editing a breeze. Move quickly around a stack of large files with a simple tabbed interface. Format your text to your heart's content. Write with the font of your choice, fixed-width or proportional. If you need to cut and paste chunks from a pile of files, forget the Clipboard: you can set up a Paste Board file to save text clips automatically. Strip HTML tags from your files. Call up complete document statistics instantly. Use powerful, system-wide search and replace tools. Speed up your work with text macros: you can use them as shortcuts, or even to auto-replace those persistent typos. Handy sample macro libraries are supplied, and you can easily build your own. Make the most of NoteTab's many options to suit your own workstyle.
NoteTab highlights:
- Easy-to-use, reliable, fast, and very flexible.
- Open, navigate and edit many documents at once, even huge files.
- AutoCorrect/Auto-replace mode, thesaurus, and spell checking with 13 dictionaries available.
- Formatting and conversion commands galore: text case, alignment, strip tags, convert to HTML, unquote emails, and much more. Can automatically capture and save text sent to the Clipboard from any application.
- Supports many file formats: DOS, MAC, UNIX, ANSI, ASCII, Unicode, UTF-8, and EBCDIC.
- Can open files and display text based on different ANSI code pages (e.g. Cyrillic, Greek, Thai, etc.)
- Can automatically save web files with the appropriate encoding (ANSI, UTF-8, Unicode).
- Calculates the results of mathematical expressions and inserts them in your text.
- Easily search for words using wildcards.
- Includes regular expression's engine based on PCRE (Perl 5 compatible) for wildcard searches and replacements.
- Powerful Search Disk feature that lets you find and replace text in an unlimited number of files.
- Powerful Clipbook tool makes it easy to access handy macro functions and boilerplate text.
- Programmable – add your own custom commands using an easy-to-learn, full-featured script language.
NoteTab v7.2 changelog:
- Updated the regular expressions engine to the latest version (based on PCRE 8.36).
- Added new shortcut to insert « French quotation marks » around selected text: Ctrl+Alt+,
- Added “Full Name in Title Bar” setting on General tab in Options dialog box. Check this option to display the current document name with the full folder path. Uncheck it to hide the folder path.
- Added “Open All” command to File > Reopen submenu.
- Added new shortcut to close a document tab and cancel the “Save changes” prompt: Ctrl + Middle Mouse Button click on tab.
- When using the “Close All Documents” feature, the list of closed files is now automatically stored under the “Close All” Favorites category list. The warning prompt is now only displayed if more than 16 documents are about to be closed.
- Removed the "Save Changes" prompt when closing a modified but empty document that has never been saved to disk.
- Reintroduced the auto-complete feature in the search dialog combobox fields.
- Improved Calculate Expression feature by increasing bracket limit from 40 to 100.
- Improved Calculate Expression feature, which now supports the × and ÷ operators as equivalent to the * and / symbols. Example: 4×7÷2=14 -- works the same way as 4*7/2=14
- Improved font sharpness when run under Windows high DPI settings.
- Improved setting file-type associations with NoteTab (note that associations set with previous versions may not show in Options).
- Fixed several syntax highlighting issues in NoteTab Pro that occurred when text contained tab characters.
- Fixed issue with “Match Directory” and “Use Default Directories” options.
- Fixed infrequent issue that resulted in no selected document tab (usually after closing a document).
- Several other minor improvements and fixes.
- Updated documentation.
Download: NoteTab Light 7.2 | 2.0 MB (Freeware)
Link: NoteTab Home Page