Your Fully Configurable Text Editor Works Exactly The Way You WantNine Pages of PreferencesColors: Change EditPad Pro's appearance to suit your tastes and eyesight. Select one of the one-click color configurations, including one with white text on a black background that's easy on the eyes. Or, select the Borland or Visual Studio options if you're used to the colors in Borland's and Microsoft's IDEs. You can use any of the predefined configuration as the basis for your own. Cursors: Most text editors use the standard Windows text cursor (blinking vertical bar), which is often difficult to spot, particularly on a medium gray background. EditPad Pro allows you to change the color, shape and blinking style of the text cursor, making the cursor easy to spot. You can set the cursor to indicate insert or overwrite mode like most DOS editors used to do. Like the text cursor, the standard Windows mouse pointer for edit boxes is a ridiculously thin I-beam. EditPad Pro allows you to use a custom I-beam or arrow pointer with one or two contrasting colors for maximum visibility. Editor: A small number of editor settings are not configurable per file type, but are always used regardless of which file you're editing. These options include the date and time format, how new EditPad instances are launched, and whether the selected text is the default search text. Two cursor movement options are the one for a smart home key and keyboard scrolling (like most programmer's editors) vs. paragraph jumping (like most word processors). An important option is the one for persistent selections. When selections are persistent, the selection will not disappear when you move the text cursor. This is how most DOS editors work, unlike most Windows editors. Though not a standard on the Windows platform, many people prefer to work with persistent selections. EditPad Pro offers you the choice. Files: EditPad Pro gives you several option for the default folder for the Open and Save dialogs. Choose a fixed folder, or let it depend on the active file, active project and/or last used folder. Protect yourself against data loss with a wide range of automatic save and backup options. Choose how many backup copies EditPad Pro should keep for how long. You can easily manage all these backup copies in the File History. Continue your work where you left off by having EditPad Pro automatically reopen the files you were last working on, or start with a clean slate every time. Tabs: In 1996 EditPad was one of the first text editors sporting a convenient row of tabs for switching between files. Today, EditPad Pro offers two rows: one to switch between projects, and another to switch between files in a project. Configure the colors of the tabs, hide them when they aren't needed to save space, or disable them entirely if you prefer to use the handy file management sidebar. Statusbar: EditPad Pro's statusbar is fully configurable. You can choose to display any or all of 14 indicators, in the order that you prefer. The indicators show information about the current file's properties, the position of the cursor, the size of the selection, the editing mode, and the status of the keyboard. Shortcuts: Have EditPad Pro create (or remove) shortcut icons on the desktop and various other places so you can quickly start it. Add an "EditPad" action to the right-click menu of all files and/or folders in Windows Explorer to quickly start editing any file. Email: When you double-click an email address in a text file, EditPad Pro can either open it's built-in email facility, or launch your favorite email application. When using the built-in email feature, you can choose how EditPad Pro processes its email queue (which sends out your emails in the background while you edit the next text file or email), and how it should log onto your email server. System: If you share your computer with other people, protect your privacy by having EditPad Pro delete potentially sensitive history information. Have an EditPad Pro icon always visible next to the system clock, keep the taskbar button visible or not, or make EditPad Pro work as an ordinary Windows application. Keep the registry clean by telling EditPad Pro to save settings into an .ini file instead. You Need EditPad™ Pro To Edit Text Files
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