Twistpad 2.2

4.2 out of 5 stars 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.

  • 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

Reviews of Twistpad

  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    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

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    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

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    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.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    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.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    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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