File Details |
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| File Size | 1.1 MB |
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| License | Open Source |
| Operating System | Windows (All) |
| Date Added | July 18, 2016 |
| Total Downloads | 11,379 |
| Publisher | Shengalts A.A. |
| Homepage | AkelPad |
Publisher's Description
AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast.
Latest Reviews
roj reviewed v4.7.5 on 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).
Inray reviewed v4.6.5 on 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!
AthleticLatino reviewed v4.6.0 on 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. :)
dhry reviewed v4.5.6 on 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
anomoly reviewed v4.4.4 on Jun 28, 2010
Now has an updater for the plugins which works perfect btw.
TuxmanXP reviewed v4.4.4 on Jun 22, 2010
Although it still doesn't even nearly reach Vim's functionality, AkelPad actually rocks. I especially like the MDI view. :)
anomoly reviewed v4.4.3 on 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++.
ballyhairs reviewed v4.4.3 on Apr 1, 2010
How dare you even compare it to Notepad++?!
No editor is even close
uberfly reviewed v4.4.3 on Apr 1, 2010
I was looking for something to run dedicated, fast and in conjunction with the app RenPhoric. This works great.
anomoly reviewed v4.4.2 on 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.
roj reviewed v4.7.5 on 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).
Inray reviewed v4.6.5 on 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!
AthleticLatino reviewed v4.6.0 on 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. :)
dhry reviewed v4.5.6 on 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
anomoly reviewed v4.4.4 on Jun 28, 2010
Now has an updater for the plugins which works perfect btw.
TuxmanXP reviewed v4.4.4 on Jun 22, 2010
Although it still doesn't even nearly reach Vim's functionality, AkelPad actually rocks. I especially like the MDI view. :)
anomoly reviewed v4.4.3 on 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++.
ballyhairs reviewed v4.4.3 on Apr 1, 2010
How dare you even compare it to Notepad++?!
No editor is even close
uberfly reviewed v4.4.3 on Apr 1, 2010
I was looking for something to run dedicated, fast and in conjunction with the app RenPhoric. This works great.
anomoly reviewed v4.4.2 on 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.
garretthylltun reviewed v4.4.0 on 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.
anomoly reviewed v4.2.3 on May 2, 2009
Latest and Greatest
anomoly reviewed v4.0.0 Alpha 2 on Jun 4, 2008
displays properly but now I can't see or use hyperlinks. Stick with 3.5.6!!!
ninjeratu reviewed v4.0.0 Alpha 2 on 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.
bufftbone reviewed v4.0.0 Alpha 2 on Jun 4, 2008
Big butt
anomoly reviewed v4.0.0 Alpha 1 on 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
fv1fv reviewed v3.4.5 on 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.
anomoly reviewed v3.4.5 on Jan 7, 2008
thanks
anomoly reviewed v3.4.3 on Nov 12, 2007
plugpack updated 11-11
truly what notepad could have been
havas reviewed v3.4.1 on Oct 12, 2007
seems as a very nice notepad replacement.
But it has a serious problem. can't display japanese\chinese words serious.
anomoly reviewed v3.4.0 on Sep 25, 2007
Plugins (They're all new?)
http://akelpad.sourcefor...les/plugs/PlugsPack.zip
Even with all plugs folder is only 619kb
inanytime reviewed v3.4.0 on 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.
anomoly reviewed v3.3.8 on 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
anomoly reviewed v3.3.2 on 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)
anomoly reviewed v3.3.1 on 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!
devilrider reviewed v3.3.1 on Jun 9, 2007
It has syntax highlighting. Check Plugin page. And some more features.
still a simple editor, nice is the Plugin concept.
Gerhard reviewed v3.3.1 on Jun 8, 2007
No syntax highlight???