![]() ![]() ![]() This review is the personal conclusion I came to based on my experience, interest, and needs-your view may be different. It also concentrates on just the task of editing files, mostly ignoring file comparison, FTP, and file-finding features of UltraEdit's companion tools. This review doesn't cover every feature of the two editors nor does it go into great depth as there are tutorials and videos on each of the respective sites. I decided to go through the feature set and compare this suite of tools with EditPad Pro the text editor I've used for several years from Just Great Software. It brings the features and flexibility of a top-class tool to Windows, and its price is right, too, as in “free.” Highly recommended.Embarcadero's parent company, Idera, recently acquired UltraEdit which includes the company's namesake product, UltraEdit, a long-standing favorite text editor among many programmers, and some accompanying tools that have grown up around the main product, namely UltraCompare, UltraFTP, and UltraFinder. Pity the poor Notepad, which looks pretty weak next to EditPad Lite. EditPad Lite offers plenty of assistance and documentation, including a Tip of the Day feature, feedback reporter, and keyboard shortcuts menu. Adding a new tab or closing any or all tabs was easy, too. ![]() A full-featured, icon-based toolbar added features such as word wrap, fonts, auto indent, and multiple undo options and gave EditPad Lite the feel of a graphics app or word processor. We could even apply simple ROT-13 encoding and decoding to texts as well. The Convert tool handles uppercase, lowercase, invert case, initial caps, and text encoding, and it converts files between ANSI, ASCII, and Unicode as well as Unix and Mac formats in some instances. The Block menu is especially useful it let us not only indent and outdent blocks of text but also insert files, append text, and Write (save) or Print the selection. EditPad Lite’s menu bar adds selections labeled Search, Block, and Convert to the usual complement of items. We could change it back by selecting Configure File Types on the Options menu uninstalling the program restores Notepad as the default. We selected the advanced option, which let us choose directories and set EditPad Lite as the default text file application, which would open EditPad Lite instead of Notepad when we clicked a text file or opened a new text file from Explorer’s right-click menu. It adds up-to-date features like tabs, no arbitrary limits on file size, file conversion, unlimited undo and redo, and compatibility with Mac and Unix files.ĮditPad Lite’s installer let us choose between standard, portable, and advanced installation options. EditPad Lite from Just Great Software is a freeware text editor that replaces Notepad in Windows. ![]()
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