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Originally published at Internet.comWord editor replacements come a dime a dozen these days as substitutes for Windows' offering, NotePad. We have learned over the years that NotePad is a good tool for copying and pasting clips of text in various ways, and for reading readme text files accompanying various programs, with little problem. Some downfalls of NotePad are the limited size of documents that it can read, and that it doesn't really have many features that are of any great use to most of us. Well, stop the presses, because Fookes Software out of Geneva Switzerland has developed a great little program that will really rock your world if you hate having to keep multiple programs on your PC to accomplish routine day-to-day editing at work, home, or school. NoteTab is a text and HTML editor for Windows 9x, 2000, and NT4. It is user-friendly and feature-rich and boasts many innovative productivity tools. I you create web pages, write source code, send e-mail, take notes, analyze text, read files, or do anything related to text, NoteTab is a tool that can save lots of time by centralizing all types of text edit chores. Note Tab Pro comes in three flavors: Lite, Standard, and Pro. Unlike MS-NotePad, NoteTab edits documents of virtually any size. Furthermore, it 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 is currently unrivaled in the range of handy features it offers. You can, for example, open links in your default browser, calculate mathematical expressions, program it to add specialized features, create toolbars to run your own macros, create simple documents, convert text files to web pages, strip tags from HTML documents, send documents as e-mail, capture text copied to the Clipboard, provide detailed document statistics, etc. Next: Let's Take a Look at Some Features!
One of the most original features which NoteTab introduced is the Editors 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 headers for identification and retrieval. Selecting the appropriate header from the list or type the first matching characters of the header into your document and hit 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. This version of Note Tab Pro has many new and enhanced features just not found in many text editors available today. Below is a list of these newly added or enhanced features (Note Tab Pro v.4.82). * Now integrates with HTML Tidy, TopStyle, and CSE HTML Validator. * Added Clipbars to NoteTab Pro and Std: a special type of toolbar with buttons that run Clips. * NoteTab Light now supports the full Clip language. * Over 50 new commands and functions for the Clip language. * Improved HTML Clipbook libraries and new HTML Clipbar. * Generate HTML tags in uppercase, lowercase, or XHTML format. * Menu conversion of selected HTML tags to uppercase, lowercase, or XHTML format. * Previewing of Web pages, such as ASP and Cold Fusion, through a local Web server. * Open files larger than 16 MB. * Supports .png images (image size for HTML image tags). * Significantly improved performance of Perl, Gawk, and other related Clip commands. * Improved regular expressions engine. * Improved support for WordStar commands Take a moment to look at the Clipbook Repository. The libraries available there have been submitted by NoteTab users since 1997 and demonstrate the many uses for NoteTab. There are now over 100 Clipbook libraries available for downloading!
NoteTab also offers the features you expect to find in any good text editor, such as Find/Replace in all open documents or disk files, read and write files in DOS/UNIX/EBCDIC/Mac format, sort/join/split/indent lines, change character case and text alignment, convert between ASCII and ANSI, spell check, thesaurus, automatic indentation, etc. You will find NoteTab Pro is very customizable with over 90 commands for the toolbar and main shortcut menu. This allows fine-tuning of the behavior of the editor to suit every need. Next: Summary
NoteTab Pro is priced from $19.95 for the Pro version down to $9.95 for the Standard to free for NoteTab Light, and we found the Light version to be pretty nearly as powerful as the Standard and Pro. With a product like this you really can't go wrong. If you like the idea of using a one tool for all, sort of like a Swiss Army Knife, then this is definitely that tool. Get It!
Back: The Swiss Army Knife of Text Editors Has Arrived!
Author: Douglas Smith
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