Notepas

Notepas is an open source, totally free, portable and multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and designed to be compiled for multiple widget sets using the Free Pascal compiler. It’s distributed as binary archives for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Features at a glance

With a non-bloated, intuitive, clean and responsive graphical user interface, the application features support for code filter, code shaper, smart select, align lines, support for common syntax coloring rules, enhanced docking support, display of line numbers, search matches highlighting, matching bracket highlighting, text matching highlighting, and words matching highlighting.

In addition, the application can handle both uncomment or comment for block and line comments depending on the active highlighter, allows users to specify highlighter rules using XML files, supports multiple line endings and encoding schemes, search and replace functionality that works across multiple opened documents and supports regular expressions.

Among other features, we can mention syntax highlighting, code folding, multi-line comment folding, selection folding, region folding, synchronized edit, colored line modification indicators, smart searching, user definable highlighters, routine separators, zoom, support for multiple languages, as well as support for monitoring external changes.

Another interesting feature is the ability to drag and drop both code selections and files into the main window. An advanced set of keyboard shortcuts will ensure a fast navigation, as well as intuitive text editing. Support for alpha blended coloring of multiple layers of transparency is also supported, along with the built-in column selection mode.

Furthermore, several experimental features are available for download, such as a structure viewer, a Hex editor, a HTML viewer, support for bookmarks, upport for scripting via the DWS (DelphiWebScript) engine, support for both external and internal code formatters, as well as support for multiple views.

Under the hood and availability

The application is written in the Free Pascal programming language and uses both the Qt and GTK+ GUI toolkits for its graphical user interface. It is distributed as pre-built binary archives for 64-bit computers.

What is new in this release:

• Added shortcuts for close actions.
• Optimized docking behaviour.
• Fixed token settings in CodeShaper toolview.
• Fixed initialization of highlighter attributes.
• Fixed some issues in Align Selection toolview
• Added missing hints for some editor actions
• Added new CompressSpace and CompressWhitespace actions
• Matching text is shown in resultlist when search with regex enabled.
• Fixed result count in CodeFilter.
• Fixed folding action shortcuts.
• Fixed: pressing RETURN closes the code filter window.
• Added new feature: selection toolbar
• Reorganized toolbar.
• Fixed assignment of common highlighter attributes.
• Fixed font sizing issues
• Toolsettings are now components which allow for more flexible persistence.
• Fixed persistence of highlighter settings.
• Using factories for module creation to ease the creation of unit tests.
• Added unit tests for testing of loading and saving editor settings.
• Improved editor popup menu.
• Refactored tool settings.
• Many optimizations for speed and reduced memory footprint.
• Fixed error when pasting and AutoGuessHighlighter enabled.
• Refactored color settings.
• Fixed focus issue when adding new editor view.
• Optimized some settings.
• Reorganized some menu items
• Added SortLines toolview
• Fixed handling of ESCAPE key in some toolviews.
• Improved search tool.
• Fixed issue with viewlist.
• Fixed some portablility issues.
• Added new feature: merge blank lines in selection.
• Added new feature: remove comments from selection.
• Fixed issues with assigning text from clipboard.
• Improved AutoGuesHighlighter
• Fixed issue when closing multiple views at once.

What is new in version 0.9.23:

• Fixed active view handling when UniqueInstance is enabled.
• Fixed issue with writing to settings file.
• Some cosmetic changes.
• Fixed issue with XML formatter.
• Fixed handling of files with extensions in uppercase.
• Refactored editor commands.
• Fixed loading and saving of highlighter properties.
• Fixed DefaultFilter assignment in file save dialog.
• Improved file list dialog.
• Updated all used libraries to most recent versions
• Fixed issue with setting the default language
• Fixed bug in toolview management
• Fixed handling of keyboard shortcuts in toolviews
• Assign selected block to searchtext when actSearch or actReplace is fired
• When searchtext is not found, set the focus back to inputbox.
• Fixed conflicting replace shortcut
• New: ESC key closes the current toolview
• Refactored search engine for more flexibility
• Added new actFindOccurences action (Shift+Ctrl+F)
• Fixed odd behaviour when browsing through search results in multiple views
• Fixed bug in assignment of searchoptions
• Fixed synchronization issues with the search result list when using actFindNext/actFindPrevious.
• Fixed Views toolview: grid should be readonly
• Added temporary work-around for layout related exceptions when displaying toolviews
• Fixed casing of some project files
• Added Encode/Decode submenu's for selections
• Added actEncodeURL/actDecodeURL
• Fixed menu issues in gtk2 builds
• Fixed popup menu behaviour in Linux builds
• Many esthetic changes for consistent looks in all supported widget sets
• Added new filetype-highlighter mappings

What is new in version 0.9.14:

• This is the first version to be released for multiple platforms. Currently, you can download portable archives for both Linux and Windows in 32 and 64 bit versions.

What is new in version 0.9.11:

• An update issue was fixed in the AlignLines tool.
• Editor views is now a dialog.
• Find/replace issues were fixed.
• The search result display was optimized.

What is new in version 0.9.10.65:

• This version fixes an issue with actSave, adds a .po file for translations, and adds an example script file.

What is new in version 0.9.9.64:

• Improves the search results display.
• Adds a ToolViewManager that allows for lazy instantiation of toolviews.
• Fixes docking issues with toolviews.
• Fixes some CodeShaper issues.
• Optimizes persistence of highlighters.
• New highlighters: po translation/Ruby, diff, TeX, and shell script.

What is new in version 0.9.7.56:

• This version adds support for alpha channel in the color settings.
• It adds some CodeFilter enhancements.
• Libraries have been updated to current versions.
• Many bugfixes and speed optimizations.
• Basic script support (using the embedded DWS engine) has been added.
• An actConvertTabsToSpacesInSelection action has been added.
• This release has localization support.

What is new in version 0.9.7.48:

• This version fixes multiline regular expression searching and multiselect in the code shaper, sets focus automatically in the added editor view, correctly renders selection color settings, adds basic bookmark support adds experimental Minimap features, Hex editor features, and HTML viewers (all available in debug mode), and fixes an issue with line highlighter settings.

What is new in version 0.9.6.47:

• This version updates all used libraries to the most recent versions, reorganizes popup menus, fixes previews, improves the ANSI/UNICODE character tool, and adds many bugfixes.