PowerPad

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 Author:   Nathan Osman 
 Homepage: http://www.quickmediasolutions.com/software/powerpad/powerpad.php
 Family:   NotepadReplacement
 Platform: Windows 2K/XP/Vista?/7 and Linux with GTK+
 License:  Freeware
 Screenshot:

PowerPad is a cross-platform lightweight text editor for Windows 2000/XP/Vista?/7 and Linux. The current stable version is 1.2.1 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
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 scripts. An great example of how powerful the scripting language is, is the RegEx script which allows for RegEx based searches.