Reviews of AkelPad

1. 
   roj

   Reviewing 4.7.5 (May 10, 2012)

   GodLike.
   
   Pound for pound, this is the most powerful little TextBeast that I have ever seen. Unlimited file size and columnar cut and paste together with the plugin architecture and blazing performance make this a pocket battleship as far as text editors go.
   
   FIVE stars (would that I could give SIX).
2. 
   Inray

   Reviewing 4.6.5 (Sep 1, 2011)

   Not bad, not bad at all. The contrary actually!
   
   Let me start by saying that I do love text editors; I own licenses for many different editors even though I think that most of them is garbage. For years I thought I knew every text editor available but seems I was wrong. It's first time I heard about AkelPad and I wonder how I missed this.
   
   AkelPad is minimalistic, feature-rich (with plugins installed) and rock stable programming editor. It is an open source application but unlike other opensource apps AkelPad is well crafted, well debugged with obvious care in detail and quality. Commercial and open source vendors have to learn many things from AkelPad about what good quality software really means.
   
   The truth is that I never liked modular editors and AkelPad is a modular editor based on an extremely tiny core engine and a dozen optional modules. However the plugin implementation is one of best in terms of integration with core GUI; In some aspects the plugin system is even better than the one of its main competitor EmEditor. The same can be said for AkelPad Unicode and ANSI/ISO encoding support, macro - scripting functionality, and the overall configurability.
   
   Still lacking some necessary features though. It is a bit slow on screen refreshing and scrolling when using syntax highlighting and there is no "find / replace in files", no output screen capture (useful when running external tools and compilers), no realtime column block editing, no help file just sparse documentation. (Minus one star because of these issues).
   
   However, despite the apparent lack of these advanced features AkelPad is an excellent editor that comes at an unbeatable price! Personally, I still like more the EmEditor or EditPlus, my all time favorite editing tools but I have to admit that AkelPad has surprised me with it's quality and stability.
   
   Kudos to the program developer for creating such a great app!
3. 
   AthleticLatino

   Reviewing 4.6.0 (May 11, 2011)

   This is *exactly* what I've been looking for! A plain text editor is so very difficult to find. We need more plain text editors. :)
4. 
   dhry

   Reviewing 4.5.6 (Mar 20, 2011)

   Not too bad, but if you're after a small, efficient notepad replacement I'd recommend Notepad2 instead. http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
5. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 4.4.4 (Jun 28, 2010)

   Now has an updater for the plugins which works perfect btw.
6. 
   TuxmanXP

   Reviewing 4.4.4 (Jun 22, 2010)

   Although it still doesn't even nearly reach Vim's functionality, AkelPad actually rocks. I especially like the MDI view. :)
7. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 4.4.3 (Apr 2, 2010)

   Exactly. If I need to write code I'd be sure to use something else. As a notepad replacement nothing compares. Especially notepad++.
8. 
   ballyhairs

   Reviewing 4.4.3 (Apr 1, 2010)

   How dare you even compare it to Notepad++?!
   No editor is even close
9. 
   uberfly

   Reviewing 4.4.3 (Apr 1, 2010)

   I was looking for something to run dedicated, fast and in conjunction with the app RenPhoric. This works great.
10. 
    anomoly

    Reviewing 4.4.2 (Mar 17, 2010)

    I must say I have tried them all, notepad ++(?), editra, you name it, but I always come back to this and haven't used anything else in quite a while.
    Other than a dedicated secretary, it's more than I need.
11. 
    garretthylltun

    Reviewing 4.4.0 (Feb 10, 2010)

    Ample options, Single window mode, or Multiple window mode with either MDI typical mode or tabbed/button mode, a seemingly solid plugin system and seems to work just fine on Windows 7 64bit.
12. 
    anomoly

    Reviewing 4.2.3 (May 2, 2009)

    Latest and Greatest
13. 
    anomoly

    Reviewing 4.0.0 Alpha 2 (Jun 4, 2008)

    displays properly but now I can't see or use hyperlinks. Stick with 3.5.6!!!
14. 
    ninjeratu

    Reviewing 4.0.0 Alpha 2 (Jun 4, 2008)

    The tabs are nice, if you like that, but not sure I think it's as fast and light-weight as I want it to be. It's nice, but nothing special. I'll stick with Notepad2.
    
    And someone please take the drugs away from fv1fv below.
15. 
    bufftbone

    Reviewing 4.0.0 Alpha 2 (Jun 4, 2008)

    Big butt
16. 
    anomoly

    Reviewing 4.0.0 Alpha 1 (May 28, 2008)

    I don't know what all that mess is from the previous post but this latest version is back to not displaying properly. Stick with 3.5.4!!!!!
    Plugspack update no problems so far
17. 
    fv1fv

    Reviewing 3.4.5 (Jan 13, 2008)

    "can open url" ?? can drag or sendto .url file in metapad, crimson editor, editpadlite, akelpad,notepad2,pspad,topgun,tslite3[topstylelite],win32pad. that's all i currently have installed.
    
    q10 [no drag and drop]acts differently: fetches html of the url. seems to connect via ie's connection setting.
    
    .lnk files: metapad, tslite3, open them as a .lnk file, not as the 'shortcut's target'. but they don't show anything editable. akelpad, topgun "opens as binary".
    but, metapad opens target if open via context menu's "open with" submenu.
    
    q10[no drag and drop], crimson, editpadlite, pspad,notepad2,open file that is the target of .lnk.
    
    akelpad:
    unzip plugins (.dll's) to \AkelFiles\Plugs\ folder, else Options>Plugins... shows nothing in list.
18. 
    anomoly

    Reviewing 3.4.5 (Jan 7, 2008)

    thanks
19. 
    anomoly

    Reviewing 3.4.3 (Nov 12, 2007)

    plugpack updated 11-11
    truly what notepad could have been
20. 
    havas

    Reviewing 3.4.1 (Oct 12, 2007)

    seems as a very nice notepad replacement.
    But it has a serious problem. can't display japanese\chinese words serious.
21. 
    anomoly

    Reviewing 3.4.0 (Sep 25, 2007)

    Plugins (They're all new?)
    http://akelpad.sourcefor...les/plugs/PlugsPack.zip
    Even with all plugs folder is only 619kb
22. 
    inanytime

    Reviewing 3.4.0 (Sep 24, 2007)

    anomoly: i joined betanews after reading your comment about your being the only reviewer.
    I love this software too, i have tried many text editors and this one is the fastest (which is what i want from my text editor). earlier i liked metapad but it doesnt have tab support.
    I just wish akelpad had a favourites column in the menu so i could load frequently used files quickly other than that it's the perfect text editor for me.
23. 
    anomoly

    Reviewing 3.3.8 (Aug 22, 2007)

    What am I? The only reviewer?
    notepad or TC replacement option and still exe is compressible to 68.5kb with portable version.
    New plugs also. very nice
24. 
    anomoly

    Reviewing 3.3.2 (Jun 13, 2007)

    Very Nice!
    Here is the 75kb zip version
    http://sourceforge.net/p...zip&use_mirror=osdn
    I like it so much I renamed it and overwrote notepad.exe (good riddance)
25. 
    anomoly

    Reviewing 3.3.1 (Jun 11, 2007)

    Finally, a free note pad replacement which can open a url!
    There may be others but I haven't seen them.
    exe compressible to 67kb's!
26. 
    devilrider

    Reviewing 3.3.1 (Jun 9, 2007)

    It has syntax highlighting. Check Plugin page. And some more features.
    
    still a simple editor, nice is the Plugin concept.
27. 
    Gerhard

    Reviewing 3.3.1 (Jun 8, 2007)

    No syntax highlight???

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