PowerPad

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 Author:   Nathan Osman 
 Homepage: http://www.quickmediasolutions.com/software/powerpad/index.php
 Family:   NotepadReplacement
 Platform: Windows 2K/XP/Vista?/7 and Linux with GTK+
 License:  Freeware
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PowerPad is a cross-platform lightweight text editor for Windows 2000/XP/Vista?/7 and Linux. The current stable version is 1.3 Some of the Linux versions available for download are slightly older than the current version available for Windows.

 Features:

PowerPad has a number of features including:

Toolbar
Tab bar for editing multiple documents
Syntax highlighting
Find text
Semi-automatic updates (users are informed of updates but must install them themselves)
Replace text
Auto-indent
Line numbering
Recent file list
Basic printing support
Multi-level undo / redo
Text-to-speech support
Unicode support
Python scripting support

PowerPad has a very flexible scripting language with a built-in manager for browsing and downloading scripts. A great example of how the scripting language can be used to add new capabilities to PowerPad is the RegEx script which allows the user to make RegEx based searches. Other scripts currently available include a base 64 encoder/decoder, web tools, and C++ class generator.