PSPad editor is freeware programmer editor, usable for people who:

  • Work with various programming environments
  • Like highlighted syntax in code
  • Need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor
  • Looking for a tool to work with plain text
  • Want to save money and still have the functionality of professional products

Why PSPad ?

  • Do you work with various programming environments ?
  • Do you like highlighted syntax in code ?
  • Do you need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor ?
  • Are you looking for a tool to work with plain text ?
  • Do you want to save money and still have the functionality of professional products ?
  • Then PSPad is for you.

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

What's New

  • INNO Setup highlighter - added missing words
  • Stability changes
  • Speed up file opening - removing redundant I/O operations
  • Speed up PSPad start - localization optimalization
  • Find/Replace in files - new option [x]Replace R/O files. Till now PSPad replaces in R/O files automatically.
  • Scroll to the left/right with Shift+Mouse wheel in editor area
  • JavaScript - added support for "async" (code explorer + highlighter)
  • PowerShell - added support for here-strings (@'...'@, @"..."@)
  • MAD-Assembler support added including code explorer support
  • For new PSPad instance (parameter -N or multiinstance option enabled), PSpad doesn't reopen last opened files for second and other instances
  • New version of OpenSSL libraries 3.4.1
  • Sending statistics using MATOMO to PSPad server
  • URL highlighter doesn't recognize e-mail starting with number
  • Search in files result - fixed problem if file path contains square brackets
  • File tabs - name of the active file was till end of the tab
  • Font size problem, if user increases font size only in the operating system system settings
  • Font size on Windows 7 with custom font size
  • Incremental search (Ctrl+E) doesn't switch off Whole words option
  • 64b version exit problem
  • File information - Last write time wasn't displayed in local time zone
  • Flicking file tabs
  • Search in files - open file from the result LOG in case file contains square brackets in the file name
  • Other fixes reported by users