Notepas Alternatives

Notepas

Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.

Exclusive features:

- Alpha blended coloring supporting multiple layers of transparency for both text and background.
- Code filter: a tool to filter lines that match a given search string or regular expression.
- Code shaper: a set of tools to apply advanced formatting rules to a text selection.
- Smart select: make (customizable) selections that depend on the active highlighter and context.
- Align lines: align multiple lines based on tokens found in the current selection.
- Common Syntax coloring rules for all registered highlighters.
- Advanced docking support.

Other features:

- Single native and fast executable, no external libraries required.
- Portable, as settings are stored in a single XML-file.
- Syntax highlighting.
- Code folding depending on syntax (currently for XML, HTML and Pascal code but will be extended to support all highlighters).
- Multi-line comment folding.
- Selection folding.
- Region folding.
- Synchronized edit.
- Line modification indicators.
- Line numbers display.
- Smart searching of the word at the caret position (CTRL-ALT-UP/CTRL-ALT-DOWN)
- Highlighting of words matching the selected word.
- Highlighting of text matching the selected block.
- Highlighting of matching bracket.
- Routine seperators.
- Highlighting of search matches.
- Comment and uncomment (for both line and block comments) handling depending on active highlighter.
- Column selection mode.
- Supports user definable highlighters. Highlighter rules can be specified using XML.
- Extensive set of keyboard shortcuts allowing fast navigation and intuitive text editing.
- Drag and drop support for both files and code selections.
- Search & replace in multiple opened files with regular expression support.
- Support for multiple encoding schemes (Unicode and many others).
- More..