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Title: Text Editor: NoteTab Light
Post by: Neon on November 21, 2001, 19:31 hrs
Text and HTML Editor

NoteTab Lite v.4.85 (http://notetab.com)[/url]

Download NoteTab Lite (http://notetab.com/download.htm#ntl)

(1.487 MB)

If you use Windows much, you know the text editing tools NotePad and WordPad. If you do any text editing, such as preparing HTML pages, you know that the design of each does not improve the efficiency of your work. Although either can be used to get the job done, both are very limited in functionality, and yet still manage to have some annoying quirks. ;)

Many full-blown document editors such as WordPerfect or MS Word are useful for formatted documents, but are rather bloated. Further, they are difficult to configure so that you can go back and forth between bona fide text editing and document formatting/layout. It is also inconvenient in all 3 apps to quickly switch between documents for rapid cut-and-paste operations.

Thus, there exists a niche for the dedicated text editor. Note that I am a cheapskate, and that this review covers the freeware version of NoteTab by Fookes Software. It is also available as payware, which of course is more feature laden.

Things I like:
Things not included in the Free version:
In addition, the Free version is somewhat slower at file loading, text processing, and large "Replace All" operations.

NoteTab Light is very similar to EditPad Lite (http://www.editpadpro.com), which is available on the Poasters downloads page (http://www.poasters.com/forum/index.php?page=downloads). EditPad Lite includes URL and HTML-tag highlighting, multiple-level undo/redo, and line numbering. The text macros are the main strength of NoteTab Light over EditPad Lite, in addition to the ability to strip HTML tags. In this respect, it is more "HTML-aware" than EditPad Lite, so if you are writing your own HTML, try a version of NoteTab.


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