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Twistpad 2.2

4.2 (66 votes)

(August 27, 2011)

Windows 2000/2003/Vista/XP / Shareware; $19.95 / 1,043 downloads

Twistpad is a fully featured text editor for Windows. It can be used as a simple notepad replacer, or an featured packed editor targeting web and software developers. Features include Easy to design syntax highlighting, find and replace in files, outline blocks of text and many more features.

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Publisher
Carthago Software
Homepage
Twistpad
Limitations
Yes - 30 day timeout
Uninstaller
Yes
Latest Changes
- Added a document bar that shows relevant parts of the text in a condensed pane

- On Windows Vista and 7, the native 'Open File' interface is now used

- Added a new Backup type "Full History" that will preserve all file modification history under a sub-folder of the file, hidden, called '__history'

- Added a 'Compare current file with...' command to quickly compare the current file with another

- Added a new color constant, 'Temporary highlight color'

- Added a "Add current file" item the project root menu

- Files can now be reordered (via drag-drop) in the project tree

- Workspaces now include the project loaded

- Added Page count as a variable to Header\Footer configuration

- Added a "Save as Copy" command

- Highlight Line will now "blend" with the syntax background

- Go to Next\Previous Search Highlight in the 'Go to' Dialog now matches current word highlighting

- Match Bracket command can be used to match Start\Stop syntax sections

- Added an option to show full main menu bar in the Customize dialog

- On 'Goto dialogs', the 'Relative' check box has been removed, the same functionality can be archived using '+' or '' in the edit box, this applies to the search bar as well when pressing and is pressed

- Show Current line in the gutter is now possible with 'Number all lines'

- On the Status-bar the read only icon has been removed and merged with the shell icon panel

- Added the property 'EndOfPar' to 'StartStop' definitions in the syntax highlighter to always stop at the end of the paragraph regardless the stop section is found

- Compare files dialog is now resizable

- Fixed: When 'Indent paste' was enabled, the original indent was not preserved when pasting on other applications

- Fixed: Canceling the 'Goto Line' dialog in preview mode, will revert the editor to the original line

- Fixed: Adding a file to the current project could be duplicated if the file was already in the project

- Fixed: When using enhanced document switch, closing a window would not activate the next window in the Z-Order

- Fixed: Workspace now focus the file that was active when the workspace was saved

- Fixed: Added visual feedback to external tools configuration list (Tool icon and tool not found warning)

- Fixed: Settings in sort dialog are now preserved across sessions

- Fixed: Twistpad is no longer a virtual store aware application (eg: saving in \Program files\ folder no longer saves the file in Windows virtual store)

- Fixed: Sometimes the 'playback macro until the end of the file' command would not reach the last line

- Fixed: Taskbar tab previews would sometimes be blank

- Fixed: When opening a large number of files, sometimes a "eOleSysError" would be raised (Windows 7 only)

- Fixed: The theme color list would not be sor/ted

- Updated help file

- Minor bug fixes

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pjafrombbay
Reviewing 2.2 (Aug 30, 2011)

VERSION 2.2 REVIEWED

This is still a very good editor. But, alas, it has not replaced EditPlus. Its close! But not quite there. It is still worth a try and $20 is not much to buy a really good editor.

Regards,
Peter
pjafrombbay
Reviewing 2.1 (Nov 28, 2010)

I use a text editor as a simple IDE and use it mainly for HTML/CSS/PHP/JavaScript (with a little bit of ooREXX thrown in). My editor needs to be light and easy to use and MUST have a clip text/code snippets feature that is easy to write and maintain. TwistPad does all these things well. In addition there was a snippets feature (no sorting pf snippets) that I suggested as an enhancement. Two days later Andre (the developer) had implemented the suggestion and released an upgrade.

I immediately paid the USD19.95 and am using it. Time will tell whether it replaces EditPlus (my long-time favorite text editor) but early impressions are good.

This is a very good text editor.

Regards,
Peter
dhry
Reviewing 1.61 SR1 (Oct 19, 2007)

Nice try, but unfortunately there are freeware editors out there that are better than this. If you want quick, low resource usage and syntax highlighting, use Notepad2. If you want a fully-featured editor that does more or less everything this does, try PSPad. $19 simply isn't worth it.
Cure110
Reviewing 1.61 (Oct 13, 2007)

Actually quite impressive. With all the fantastic freeware notepad replacements around, it's nice to see an shareware alternative actually worth paying for.

Only thing missing would be the important "split editing window" mode, that most of the alternatives offers.

(Tile windows does _not_ count ;)

Still 5 stars from me.
otaku888
Reviewing 1.59 (Aug 30, 2007)

My Favourite editor of the moment, light, fast and well crafted. It also has some innovative twists to the features like file compare, replace and syntax editing. Also visually shows you what you have just changed or saved. The next version (1.60) promises to bring session restore and many other feature updates.

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