Metapad FAQQ: What new features will you add? I have released the source code under the GNU GPL.
It lets you have one font as a proportional font (e. Times, Arial, ..) and one as a fixed width font (Fixedsys, Courier, ..). This is an advantage because some text files look messed up in a proportional font (like source code) but some look nice (like email).
TED Notepad is a free light-weight notepad alternative. It offers 352 text-processing functions, innovative features and timesaving tools. All of them on hotkeys; all. By default the text font in Lync is set to Segoe UI with black color. If you do not like it, you can always change it to another font and color. It can be easily installed and.
Now dual font can be very useful here, also (i. C: \Windows or C: \Program Files\metapad).
Find any text file using Explorer. Hold down shift and right click on the file. Select the special . Then use the right- click context menu entry or File » New » Shortcut to create a new shortcut to metapad. Replace notepad (for maximum notepadiness): This is what I intended metapad for. There is a neat looking freeware tool that easily allows you replace Notepad (sent in by Doug Collins - 9/2. Notepad. Replacer/.
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Download this registry file and run it (but take a look at it first - just good practice). Important: Make a copy of it (Edit . Rename the copy from . Unzip metapad. zip to a temporary folder (e.
C: \Temp). Drag this new . Now when you use applications that depend on Notepad, metapad will take over. To run your old Notepad for any reason just choose Run on the start menu and type . Just download this file and follow the instructions inside. Q: Why can't I load large text files in metapad (LE)? The main part of both text editors is what is called an Edit window. Under Windows 9. 5 and 9.
TED Notepad provides users with a tool to quickly compose documents. While it has some excellent features, it also has a few missing pieces that make it an uneven. The Windows NT version of Notepad, installed by default on Windows 2000 and Windows XP, has the ability to detect Unicode files even when they are missing a byte. Q: What is the point of having dual font support? A: I basically stole this feature from NewsXpress (the best newsreader IMO). The short answer is no, it is not possible. To elaborate, I am afraid you won't find a global encoding option in Windows 7 that lets you both 1) set a global default. How to Choose Between Windows XP and Windows Vista. Windows XP and Windows Vista are not the same. How and why is this? It is not just the date, or the new style of.
Edit window has a maximum capacity of about 3. KB (approximately 3.
There is no limited capacity on Windows NT (and the upcoming Windows 2. On Windows NT 4. 0 I have successfully loaded text files over 7 MB in size with metapad LE. Unfortunately the rich edit control 2.
MB) files. Wordpad uses rich edit version 1. I am simply calling Set.
Window. Text so there is no way that I know of to optimize this but if you have any ideas then feel free to play around with the source code. If you cannot find a solution to your problem in either of these two sources then I can probably help you personally. You can also turn off insertion of time (the hours, minutes & seconds) which also works in the .
LOG (see below). How can I get more printing options? It was thrown in as a afterthought. The problem is that I am not motivated enough to do it well since I never print, let alone print from something like notepad (I prefer Word). This will allow you to use notepad's advanced printing capabilities directly from metapad (simply by hitting Ctrl+L)! As a workaround you can use a dark font on a light background for the secondary font and select . Useful for code editing.
For advanced use only. Often a proportional font (like Arial; not fixed- width) for easier viewing of prose. Only available when metapad is run on Windows 2.
Use this for Windows XP. This advanced function allows you to toggle the read only status of the file you are working on. This is useful for languages with non- standard characters. Don't display the bottom scrollbar when wordwrap is off and it isn't needed. NT and 2. K don't have this limitation). Also enables old behaviour of highlighting the line that you want to go to.
If auto- save is on, if you type . Works with long date format and . LOG files as well. Will use the last find string used. Instead it will always load with the position and size that the main window was in when . Maximum length is 1. Easily paste their contents in metapad by using Alt + the number corresponding to the desired buffer.
You can use '\n' and '\t' for newline and tab when setting a buffer's contents. Default uses the built in language (English). Or you can download a language plugin and tell metapad to use that instead. To do this you must add a string to the metapad section in your registry. To make this easier I have created an example which you can download here.
Before running it, examine the file (open it in metapad) and make any changes you want. Then save it and import it into your registry by double clicking on it. First position the main metapad window just the way you like it.
Next, hit Save Window Position. Now metapad will always start up in the saved position. This means that you can. Try experimenting with it on and off and click on a string such as . Try hitting home a few times on a line with initial whitespace (i.
On a modern computer you probably won't notice any speed difference between the two. Now you can erase or rename notepad. C: \Win. NT & C: \Win. NT\System. 32). Simply cancel any warnings that pop up. Try doing a search for Notepad.* in your windows folder (this will also locate Notepad. Also note that this folder is probably hidden so to open it you can paste the above path into the Run dialog (click Start .
Typing in %System. Root%\System. 32\Dll. Cache should locate the folder but if not then check HKEY. For advanced users (i. Note: I could not get this to work myself. Be very quick or XP will replace the file and it won't work.
Make sure you don't have the Win. XP CD- ROM in your drive! Go back to C: \WINDOWS (another Backspace) and paste the file there. Make sure you select 'Keep this file' or a similar option. If it doesn't work, keep trying, because it will. Just do the three pastes very fast. I made a copy of metapad.
C: \WINDOWS\System. C: \WINDOWS\Service. Pack. Files\i. 38. C: \WINDOWS\System. C: \WINDOWS. Then I saved it as copy. It prompts for overwrite for each file, but all you have to hit is Y and Enter a few times. I find it much easier than trying to flip through folders as fast as I can to paste it before Windows replaces it.
Microsoft Office will install it for you or you can try to find it on the web. Why isn't it working? Microsoft has fixed this in version 3. RICHED2. 0. DLL which ships with Microsoft Office 2.
Or you can use metapad LE which doesn't have this problem. It can't seem to display certain special (diacritic, non- english) characters with certain fonts (e. Terminal). I suggest you try using another font (like Courier) or you could use metapad LE which doesn't have this problem. You need to acquire a copy of RICHED2. DLL that has a version of 4. This will be installed with Office XP and is not freely available from Microsoft. You may be lucky enough to find it somewhere on the internet though.
By default it scans programs every time you launch them. You can disable this feature entirely by going to.
Real- time sheilds > File system shield > Expert Settings > Scan when executing > Uncheck Scan programs when executing. Or if you really feel you want to keep things safe but add an exception for Metapad just do the following. Real- time sheilds > File system shield > Expert Settings > Exclusions > Add an entry with .
You can also copy a tab to the clipboard (highlight it and hit Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl+V) it into the Find/Replace dialog (it will appear as a thick bar). This will strip out the carriage returns so that when word wrap is on, the lines wrap to the window. Note well: you must first enable this feature by clicking on the arrow next to the find text field and deselecting disable. It would be nearly impossible to implement unless I wrote a text control from scratch. Since for most people it isn't required much (I never need it) it wouldn't be too hard to use another editor for this purpose (e.
Microsoft Word). The flow would then be: Ctrl+L (Launch Word), Edit file in Word, Ctrl+S (Save in Word), Alt+F4 (Close Word), hit refresh (F5) in metapad. Simple.). Q: How can I make metapad start in a certain folder when I choose Open/Save File? Right click on the shortcut and choose properties. In the shortcut tab there should be a field called Start in where you can enter a path to solve your problem.
Unwrap lines (F9) must also be applied to a block of text. This will remove any hard carriage returns (i. If word wrap is off the text will appear as one long line so make sure to turn it on (Ctrl+W) to see all the text.
You can also use unwrap lines with space (Alt+F9) to replace the carriage return with a space (sometimes necessary). Now you can resize the window to your liking and if you want you can use Commit Word Wrap (Ctrl+F9) to reinsert carriage returns where the lines currently wrap. Choosing Edit Favourites from the Favourites menu will automatically load metafav.
Each line in this file corresponds to a menu item on the favourites menu. The part before the = is what is displayed in the menu and the rest must be the full path to a file you want to be able to load. You can manually edit this file or simply choose Add to Favourites to automatically insert a line in this file. This can be useful on multi- user systems. For Windows 7, go to Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Personalization\Window Color and Appearance then select Advanced Appearance Settings and the item called Hyperlink will allow you to change the color. In special cases you might need something a little more fancy. As of metapad 3. 5, you can now run viewers that are not executables (e.
VB scripts). I have made available a script called Strip & Launch (grab it here). This script will strip the loaded file's extension and launch the file in the desired application (passed as an argument to the script in the args setting in metapad viewer setup).
This is just one example; it is easy to modify the script to fit your specific needs. Run the viewer you've just set up (e.
If the current file has errors, you will be prompted to fix them by aspell. Refresh your file (F5) to pull up the corrected version.
By default, aspell will create a backup file (filename. You can disable this feature by setting the viewer args to . Learn more about aspell options here. Open an Elevated Command Prompt by clicking All Programs (in Start Menu) and Accessories, then right- click Command Prompt and click Run as administrator. Close the box when finished and delete C: \notepad. To restore the familiar Metapad purple icon, copy the following to a new notepad file and save it as any name with the extension .
See difference between Internal and Express mode.