NoteTab Pro 4.5 is an award-winning text and HTML editor for Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0.
Unlike Notepad that comes with Windows, NoteTab Pro lets you edit documents of virtually
any size. NoteTab Pro is a shareware text editor written by Eric G.V. Fookes (www.notetab.ch/ntp.htm).
Furthermore, you can open as many documents as your system's memory will allow, each with
its own button in the tab bar. NoteTab is not your typical text editor, and it is
currently unrivaled for the range of useful features it offers. You can, for example, open
links in your default browser, calculate mathematical expressions, program it to add
specialized features, create simple outline documents, convert text files to Web pages,
strip tags from HTML documents, send documents as e-mail, capture text copied to the
Clipboard, view detailed text statistics, and so on.
One of the most original features—NoteTab Pro was the first program to introduce
it—is
the Editor Clipbook. This is a flexible tool for handling text clips, which can be
anything from a single character to a large "boilerplate" chunk of text. Clips
are stored in libraries with a header for identification and retrieved by selecting the
appropriate header from the list or by typing the first matching characters of the header
into your document and hitting a function key.
By default, pasting a clipbook item will overwrite any selected text in your document. But
by customizing your clip text with simple codes you can do anything from wrapping the clip
around a selection (great with HTML tags), to launching other programs, to loading files,
to sending the document as e-mail, to calculating the result of functions with multiple
variables, etc.
Of course, NoteTab Pro also offers the features you expect to find in a good text editor,
such as Find/Replace in all open documents or disk files, read and write files in
DOS/UNIX/Macintosh format, sort/join/split/indent lines, change character case and text
alignment, convert between ASCII and ANSI, spell checker, thesaurus, automatic
indentation, and more.
NoteTab Pro is very customizable. You have a selection of more than 80 commands for the
toolbar and the main shortcut menu. The editor's behavior can be fine tuned to suit your
needs, thanks to many options. NoteTab Pro can even substitute Notepad by simply selecting
a menu command. All these great features have earned NoteTab Pro many awards. |
Here's a brief summary of the main features of NoteTab Pro:
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Works under Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0 or higher
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Can edit files up 16 MB each
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Very fast
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Multi-level undo/redo
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Supports fixed-pitch OEM fonts
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Bookmarks
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URL and HTML tag highlighting
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Spell checker and thesaurus
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Full support for NoteTab-Outline documents
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Programmable and seamless support for Perl and Gawk
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Search/replace text in files on disk
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Options for word wrap at column, tab types, etc.
This article originally appeared in the November 1998 issue of The Outer
Edge, the Channel
Islands PC Users Group newsletter.
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