metapad is a useful text editor utility. metapad is the ultimate small, fast, free, 32-bit Notepad replacement.

Not only does metapad have almost every feature in Notepad, it contains many extra features that make it considerably more powerful than Notepad (e.g., unlimited file size, saved window placement, intelligent find and replace, external viewers and useful keyboard shortcuts).

metapad is incredibly useful for web site maintenance and simple programming tasks.

Features:

· Persistent window placement
· Dirty file notification
· Intelligent Find and Replace
· External viewer support (e.g. web browser)
· Usable accelerator keys (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+N, etc.)
· Dual customizable font support
· Optional Quick Exit (Esc key)
· Configurable tab stop setting
· Auto-indent mode
· Go to Line/Column
· Seamless UNIX text file support
· Block indent and unindent (Tab, Shift+Tab)
· Recent files list
· WYSIWYG printing
· Snazzy status bar & funky toolbar
· No file size limit! (under Win9x)
· Hyperlink support
· User interface language plugins

News:

· support for GUI language plugins (see web site)
· ten quick buffers (ctrl alt numbers to set, alt numbers to paste)
· added native Windows XP theme support
· new Windows XP icon (truecolor with shadow)
· new Insert File function
· toolbar button for always on top
· read only status rechecked on save
· scroll window horizontally with Alt Left & Alt Right
· sentence case capitalization after any ?, ! and n
· no maximum number of favourites (was 16)
· Shift Escape for quick save and exit
· command line option to override plugin version checking
· command line option to skip loading language plugin
· opening the settings dialog loads all options from registry
· can use non-executable files as viewers (e.g., scripts)
· fixed page at a time mouse scroll wheel bug
· fixed Chinese Windows copy text bug
· Shift Enter adds carriage return
· fixed crash on loading BOM-less unicode files
· fixed single character lines changing in WinXP bug
· fixed minor replace "n" bug
· fixed goto line 5 digit limitation
· upper/lower case changes for intl characters
· additional minor bug fixes