TextPad keeps editing fast and predictable: large files load quickly, syntax definitions highlight dozens of languages, and regex search supports both its own engine and a syntax closer to Perl. Block selection, multi-file search with side-by-side results and a clipboard history cover the everyday text-wrangling tasks.
The editor integrates external tools through configurable commands, so compilers, linters and scripts run against the current document and capture output in a tool panel. Macros record and replay repetitive edits, and the spelling checker plus document statistics help with plain prose as well as source code.
Windows 10/11 x64, 1 GB RAM, 100 MB free disk space