AkelPad
AkelPad is a small, expandable text editor for Microsoft Windows.
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 AkelPad on Windows XP | |
| Original author(s) | Alexey Kuznetsov (2003-2006) |
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| Developer(s) | Aleksander Shengalts (2006-present) |
| Initial release | August 12, 2003 |
| Stable release | 4.9.8
/ July 18, 2016 [1] |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Size | 400KB (executable), 1150KB (installer) |
| Available in | English, Russian (internal), 20 others (using language modules) |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | BSD-2-Clause |
| Website | http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/index.php |
AkelPad is distributed as free and open-source software, hosted on SourceForge where it has been downloaded more than 3 million times.[2]
Unicode and codepages
AkelPad handles full Unicode files written in UTF-8, UTF-16 (LE or BE), and UTF-32 (LE or BE), and can auto-detect Unicode files with or without a BOM. BOMs (byte order marks) can also be omitted, if desired, from file writing.
Codepages installed on the user's system can be used for reading or writing files; text can also be re-coded into other codepages. AkelPad implements an auto-detection algorithm for the detection of some common codepages used (optional).
AkelPad can also detect non-text (i.e. binary) files and will issue a message. Binary files can, however, be loaded and edited (e.g. internal text) if desired.
Plugins
The program's architecture is structured to allow external plugins (DLLs) for the extension of AkelPad's capabilities. At present, 31 plugins are implemented and available on AkelPad's homepage. Some of the more noteworthy plugins are:
- Coder - code folding support, autocomplete support, syntax highlighting and color themes.
- ContextMenu - user can customize the main menu and some context menus.
- ToolBar - implements one or more user-configurable toolbars. ToolBar buttons can access external programs if desired.
- Explorer - embeds Windows Explorer into a separate pane in the user interface.
- Scripts - scripts can access more than 40 internal AkelPad routines (for example, Zen Coding) and can, of course, be user written.
- Hotkeys - user can assign functions to specific keys or key combinations. Functions may be internal to AkelPad, external (i.e. run external applications) or plugin related.
- SpecialChar - toggles (on/off) display of normally invisible special characters, i.e. space, tabs, newline, vertical tabulation, formfeeds and null characters.
References
- "AkelPad 4.9.8 Released".
- "Project Statistics for AkelPad". SourceForge.net: Geeknet, Inc. 2017-09-01. Retrieved 2017-09-01.