Textpad is a great text editor which is available for free to download and use. It has common features that every text editor has and much better than using standard notepad that comes with Windows. It is very easy to use and new users can easily transition to textpad even without prior experience. You can configure various options based on your preference like whether you want full path of the file or just file name to be displayed, or whether you want to see list of the files in left hand navigation bar or in the top. Also, it can easily open large files upto some extent. You can configure short cuts to match your preference based on using other editors. It also offers interactive tips if that setting is turned on every time you launch the editor. Installing textpad adds the shortcut on the windows explorer so you can easily open files in the your choice of editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Textpad find shortcut is confusing everytime, instead of Ctrl F, you have to remember to use F5 and that can be challenging unless you modify the default setting specially when you are coming from the other editors background. Also, it can be used for simply viewing the files or some scratch work, but not preferred for doing software development and should not be compared with IDE since it can't identify compilation errors and used for debugging etc. It has its own limits such that it can't recognize unix/shell script files syntax words. So it is strictly meant for Windows use. Textpad at times tends to open files in different editor instead of opening all files in single instance, that has been very confusing to remember which instance has which file. So I always prefer to drag and drop files into existing instance when that happens which is a simplest workaround. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it is a small application with tons of capability. I can install it in a matter of minutes and it is not a memory suck.

I like that i can also manage several files at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There really isn't anything i dislike about this application. It is VERY handy. It runs big files and makes them easily searchable and editable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Run fast and is lightweight, it possesses all those features that other more advanced editors have, easy to use and configure, Macros can be really useful for task automation, the possibility of having many views of the same document, well established for general development and project construction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does not have integration with GitHub or other source code control, the product's website is really old and outdated, which does not inspire confidence or the sense of purchasing the product, the interface is somewhat outdated and has few visual themes to configure it, it does not have the capability to extend it with plugins, it does not have code completion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TextPad is a great shareware text editor that packs many advanced features that go above and beyond the built-in tools in Windows. It's especially geared towards editing HTML files, and it includes many tools and niceties that streamline the workflow of HTML coding.

When editing HTML files, TextPad offers the standard features you'd expect, plus a few useful add-ons like a clip library docked on the sidebar and easily accessible find feature found on the toolbar. These features are the most likely to be used very often, and they're readily available wherever you need them.

Above all, TextPad is a great lightweight tool for when you don't want to launch something like Dreamweaver, and it has enough included features to get the job done. And if you want to shape it into something that specifically fits your needs, there are a ton of extra plugins available from the TextPad site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no built-in support for many popular languages, the most notable of which is CSS. These days, if you're working with HTML you're almost definitely working with CSS as well. While TextPad does offer syntax definition files you can download for various languages (including CSS), there's really nothing to indicate that this is the case and you have to know it exists, go looking for it, and install it yourself. In a modern HTML editor, CSS should be included out of the box.

TextPad is also missing a few built-in line operation and text manipulation features that exist in similar tools like Notepad++, but with enough effort you could probably re-create these features using macros and plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are so many features that I love about TextPad that it's hard to pick a single one that is my favorite. However, if I had to pick a favorite it would probably be the ability to highlight blocks of text from within a text file and cut/paste them to another part of your file or another application. I use this for manipulating load files for legal systems such as Summation and Concordance, and without this tool I have no idea how I would perform the tasks that I do.

In addition to the block select mode my other favorite option is probably the powerful search and replace, which allows you to use regular expressions to find patterns of text to replace. Super powerful and easy to use! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't much about this software I don't like. It is extremely cheap, very flexible, has a lot of great features, and is a super quick and easy install. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple code editor, it comes with all the features of much larger and more complex environments, it is fast and simple, you can create macros for repetitive tasks, it is easy to configure and quickly adapts to your needs, it has support for plugins and you can edit the same file with multiple views of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be somewhat expensive, it usually does not have all the complex features of other IDEs, it does not support GitHub, and it has limited support for other programming languages, it does not support SASS or LESS files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's great for simple and common code editing tasks, it has multiples views from an actual opened file, it has a beautiful syntax coloring, you can compare two files for changes, it loads fast, easy to use and configure it, you can create Macros for repetitive tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not free and quite expensive, the UI is not very friendly and it's outdated, the webpage is old and outdated, it doesn't support last tech stack like NodeJS or CSS preprocessors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Textpad is an excellent text editor, it has multiple ways to format what you need to do, whether is programming or simple editng text. It is pretty well design, I love the explorer included, you don´t need to get out to find other text. That may seem simple, but is actually very complete and configurable. Clipboard history is a very useful clip library. It provides support for editing files of this type. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unfortunately it does not support rich text formatting. Some spelling weakness, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I got to use Textpad during the first college programming courses: I used mainly software to program in Java, not in advanced courses. Textpad is a great editor to start developing for it is easy and intuitive, and does not have many options. This makes it easier to focus on what you are doing: the main pros are the extreme lightness and ease of use. You can see the files, there are editor tabs, simply edit function and syntax highlighting. A very useful option is the ability to set compile command via menu option, setting the right environment variable under windows os. This makes the task of compiling (not using shell) less confusing, especially for those who are beginners in development world. Also macros are super useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are no particular against for this software, unless its simplicity: just needs become more advanced, this software is no longer suitable. Making it perhaps convenient to do more than oo advanced programming scripting. It would be nice to introduce an exploration of java libraries with tip command to use, but this would be detrimental to the performance and in any case there are other IDE that make this task at best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can make it the primary text editor in your Windows System. It has Syntax highlighting and folder tree view. It is really handy when working with folder heavy projects that you must browse through multiple folders while working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't really dislike anything from the application, yet I would like to be able to upload files from the get-go, and maybe giving the user a couple more nice themes to work with. It's default syntax highlighting brings a yellow current line highlight that can be an eye sore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.