DocPad is an alternative to Notepad. Although it fills the same role, plain text editing, it has many advantages: 10-level undo, alphabetization, block indent/unindent, bookmark, case conversion, encoding conversion, file history, jump to line, jump to offset, keyboard macros, print preview, search and replace, spell checking, statistics, variable pitch font, and much more. It also includes a built-in calculator, calendar, and character map.

Features:

• 10-level undo
• Alphabetization of paragraphs
• Block indention and unindention
• Bookmarks
• Calculator, calendar, and character map tools
• Convert various encodings including Base-64, Quoted-Printable, UTF-7, etc.
• Convert to lower/upper/title/sentence case
• Cut, copy, and paste
• File association tool
• File drag & drop
• Help file
• Jump to line/character
• Keyboard macros (unlimited in size and number)
• Normalize spaces
• Print, Print Preview
• Recent file history
• Search and replace, including case-insensitive, whole-word, and wildcard searches.
• Selectable character set
• Skinnable user interface
• Spell checking
• Statistics on characters, words, lines, and paragraphs
• Text drag & drop
• Trim trailing spaces from lines
• Variable-pitch fonts support

What's New in version 10.0:

• Added the 'Speak' tool to the Edit menu.
• Added the ability to print the filename on each page.
• Added the 'Discard Paragraphs Containing' tool to the Edit menu.
• Added to the case conversion tools support for extended ASCII characters, but only if the character set is 'European, Western'. For example 'à' (code 224) would be capitalized to 'À' (code 192).
• Added a high resolution shell icon for Vista/2008/7.
• Added the 'Balloon help disabled' option to the toolbar's context menu.
• When the system launches DocPad to edit the same file more than once, instead of opening a second instance of DocPad, the first instance will be brought to the foreground.
• When converting to sentence case, the exclamation point and question mark are now regarded to end a sentence just like the period.
• Changed the text drag & drop behavior to more closely emulate how Windows behaves.
• When launching the Calculator, Calendar, or Character Map from the Interface menu, these tools can now store their data back to the document. Previously this was only possible when launching the tool from the Edit menu.
• The Calculator tool will now initially copy the numeric value in the document near the caret position.
• The Calendar tool will now insert the date in the format that obeys the computer's regional settings.
• When saving a file, the Read-Only and Hidden attributes are now removed first in order to prevent an 'Access Denied' error.
• When a document is reopened after it has been detected that the file was modified by another program, the state of the undo buffer is now maintained.
• The 'Normalize Spaces' and 'Trim Trailing Spaces' tools now report the number of changes made.
• When it is necessary to start a new instance of DocPad with admin rights in order to complete a file type association, the user will no longer be prompted twice to confirm that the existing association should be changed. Also, the user will now be informed if the association was successful.
• Improved rendering speed.
• Improved the appearance of the help file. The inter-character spacing is now calculated better.
• The /popup switch now displays the text in a larger font.
• Fixed: the 'Another program has changed the document' window was having problems when a menu is open.
• Fixed: there was a 1-pixel high blank line below the status bar.
• Fixed: print preview was not always drawing the text in black.
• Fixed: when being resized, the window was failing to rearrange the editor if 'Status Bar Visible' was unchecked.