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PSPad - html and programming text editor

I had tried PSPad out a few months ago and I thought it was very good. They've updated and added even more features. Now this programmer's editor is ready to sit on the front porch with the big dogs. It's not a WYSIWYG editor but it's got a great integrated instant preview that allows me to quickly view the page in different screen sizes. Website - Download - Freeware Quote from the website - PSPad features: work with projects work on several documents at the same time (MDI) Save desktop session to later reopen all open files FTP client - you can edit files directly from the web macro recorder to record, save and load macros search and replace in files text difference with color-coded differences highlighted templates (HTML tags, scripts, code templates...) installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl,... syntax highlighting auto set by file type user-defined highlighters for exotic environments auto correction intelligent internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla full HEX editor call external programs, different for each environment external compiler with catch command output, log window, log parser for each environment for "IDE" effect color syntax highlight printing and print preview integrated TiDy library for formatting and checking HTML code, conversion to CSS, XML, XHTML integrated free version of top CSS editor TopStyle Lite export with highlight to RTF, HTML, TeX format into file or clipboard column block select, bookmarks, line numbers, ... reformat and compress HTML code, tags char case change line sorting with ability to sort on defined column, with option to drop duplicates ASCII chart with HTML entities Code explorer for Pascal, INI, HTML, XML, PHP, and more in future spell checker internal web browser with APACHE support matching bracket highlighting

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