AkelPad - Notepad alternative

by Romeo Wahed Jan 9th 2008

Judging by the large number of substitutes for Windows Notepad, people must have had issues with Microsoft's text utility since day one. This comes to no surprise as Notepad was built with a number of limitations like maximum file sizes, and minimal ability to format text.

Akelpad, like many of the other Notepad substitutes out there, seeks to improve on Notepad while staying true to its sense of minimalism. Still lightweight, but with more flexibility and less limitations, it can handle the basics - and with a few plugins it can handle even more - syntax highlighting, auto completion, sessions, and quick search, to name a few functions.

However, for the power user, Akelpad may not have all the features you might want. Other Notepad replacements such as Notepad++, Notepad2, and TED Notepad have other strengths, especially in terms of coding and other applications.

As with many other things in life, the kind of text editor one uses is a very subjective area. If you're in the market for a quality Notepad replacement, AkelPad is no slacker - but sampling a variety of editors may help find what works best for you - and is supposedly recommended by psychologists as a great way to spend an evening for stress relief (dinner and a text file anyone?).

[via gHacks]

Tags: akelpad, notepad, replacement

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Sean said 8:40AM on 1-09-2008

Hmm. I tend to reach for XEmacs [1] as a notepad replacement -- and I know, there's that ole' contrived VI-vs-Emacs war, sure, whatever, ok, if VI works for you, great.

...but I know, XEmacs could be a little overwhelming for the point-and-clicker type of user. (No offense personally meant, folks)

1: http://www.xemacs.org/

Relequestual said 6:31AM on 1-13-2008

Have you tried the best notepad replacment? Its called MetaPad.

http://appaholic.co.uk/2007/10/29/metapad-notepad-mimic-without-all-the-extras/

Xell said 5:49AM on 1-14-2008

hmm

Xell said 10:05AM on 1-14-2008

By far the best Notepad replacement:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

Alek Davis said 11:12AM on 1-14-2008

I have been using Notepad++ and PSPad and would recommend both (actually, lately PSPad looks more attractive to me).

Relequestual said 12:19PM on 1-15-2008

I would agree notepad++ is very good, but it is a massive improvement and upgrade rather than light weight replacement. For just note writing, i use metapad. for text editing, if its not plane text, then i will use Notepad++ without question!

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