Is Metapad the only text editor that has clickable URL link capability?

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I use ,

EditPad Lite
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor that works with Windows
95, NT4, 98, 2000, ME and XP. It is designed to be small and compact,
yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor.
EditPad Lite is free for non-commercial use.

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I believe Editor2 (Editor Squared) has clickable URLs which are
automatically blue in a normal .txt file. I could not get it to work
with local file:// html files though.
 
I use ,

EditPad Lite
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor that works with Windows
95, NT4, 98, 2000, ME and XP. It is designed to be small and compact,
yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor.
EditPad Lite is free for non-commercial use.
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My favorite at the moment is BDV NotePad. Not only does it have clickable
links, but it has a sticky search bar and an excellent trash filter.

http://www.badevlad.com/bdvnotepad_en.htm

-- Bob
 
My favorite at the moment is BDV NotePad. Not only does it have clickable
links, but it has a sticky search bar and an excellent trash filter.

http://www.badevlad.com/bdvnotepad_en.htm
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Kewl, thanks. Checking it out now. My Metapad is staying on top
which is undesirable. I used Editor2 for a long time and that's what
I'm using now. EditPad Lite was ~1.1 megs and Editor2 was tiny, so
Editor2 definitely won out. BDV is small, too, under 350 kb, so it'll
be neat to see what it's like.

Thanks. :oD
 
fitwell said:
Kewl, thanks. Checking it out now. My Metapad is staying on top
which is undesirable. I used Editor2 for a long time and that's what
I'm using now. EditPad Lite was ~1.1 megs and Editor2 was tiny, so
Editor2 definitely won out. BDV is small, too, under 350 kb, so it'll
be neat to see what it's like.

Thanks. :oD
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Stay on top in Metapad can be turned off and on. In the Menu bar, select
Options > Always On Top.

Peacerose
 
Stay on top in Metapad can be turned off and on. In the Menu bar, select
Options > Always On Top.

Peacerose
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<rofl> Oh, brother!! Thanks SO MUCH for this info. I never realized
it could also do it manually. Wonder if that's why the other program
screwed things up, ultimately.

I tried other notepad replacements and they just didn't work for me so
I'm relieved I can keep on using Metapad. The others all have
something that doesn't work for me, when you hit the ESC key, they
close. <g>

Thanks! Can't believe the answer was so simple. :oD
 
fitwell said:
<rofl> Oh, brother!! Thanks SO MUCH for this info. I never realized
it could also do it manually.
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I hereby retract my congratulations...
A few months back, though I doubt anyone would remember, I tried to
make Metapad stay on top. I used a program recommended here that
would toggle this on and off. Well, the program sucked,
unfortunately. I got Metapad to stay on top, but always!
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Gee, you found its option to do so. Congrats!

....from your post regarding reformating ghosts.
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Wonder if that's why the other program
screwed things up, ultimately.
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Gee...I wonder...
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I tried other notepad replacements and they just didn't work for me so
I'm relieved I can keep on using Metapad. The others all have
something that doesn't work for me, when you hit the ESC key, they
close. <g>
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Now you have confused me. Do you mean...
1. Others don't close with ESC, Metapad does
2. ESC doesn't work with any
3. Others are supposed to close with ESC but Metapad doesn't have
that option
4. Others close with ESC, Metapad doesn't

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Thanks! Can't believe the answer was so simple. :oD
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There are things other than answers that are simple. BTW, Metapad has
other options besides stay on top. ESC for one.

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fitwell said:
<rofl> Oh, brother!! Thanks SO MUCH for this info. I never realized
it could also do it manually. Wonder if that's why the other program
screwed things up, ultimately.

I tried other notepad replacements and they just didn't work for me so
I'm relieved I can keep on using Metapad. The others all have
something that doesn't work for me, when you hit the ESC key, they
close. <g>

Thanks! Can't believe the answer was so simple. :oD
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Glad to help. Metapad is my favorite, too.

Peacerose
 
Peacerose said:
Metapad is my favorite, too.
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There are some cool tricks you can do with metapad.

I renamed a copy of the metapad exe file to notepad.exe and put it
in the windows folder, replacing the original notepad.exe. Whenever a
program makes a call to notepad I get metapad instead.
Faster and better than the original. And it looks much better because I
set metapad to use Times New Roman 14 as default font.


You can start a text file with this on the first line

..LOG

Every time metapad opens that file it will put a date and time stamp at
the bottom and place the cursor under it. That text file becomes a log
file. I use that for purposes like keeping track of when I take
medicines. Or as a diary, for example.

If you use a hex editor on the metapad exe file and search and replace
the word metapad with mitypad or whatever name with the same number of
letters you get another text editor with the same properties.

Metapad stores its settings in registry and your new mitypad editor will
set up its settings in a new place in the registry when you run it the
first time. This allows you to use different versions of metapad, with
their own settings like colors, fonts, window sizes, etc.. These
different versions can be used for different purposes, but you still have
all the features of the excellent metapad editor.
 
I believe subpad has clickable links.

I am the author of a "notepad replacement" so obviously I have looked
around at plenty of others. I do not feel guilty about borrowing a few
features from any of them since my text editor was made for my own
personal use. And while it doesn't have true
hyperlinks it lets you highlight some text (a url) and then launch it
that way.

dos-man
 
Roger Johansson wrote in said:
You can start a text file with this on the first line

.LOG

Every time metapad opens that file it will put a date and time stamp at
the bottom and place the cursor under it. That text file becomes a log
file. I use that for purposes like keeping track of when I take
medicines. Or as a diary, for example.
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Fwiw: Windows Notepad can do the same (although I prefer almost any
other editor. btw PFE still my favorite :)

From widows (2k) help:

To append a log to a document

On the first line of a Notepad document, type the following
extension at the left margin, making sure you use all uppercase
letters and include the period:
.LOG

On the File menu, click Save.

Note
Every time you open this document, Notepad will append the
current time and date to the end of the document, as specified by
your computer's clock.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Fwiw: Windows Notepad can do the same
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I know, but a lot of metapad users may not be aware of this feature, so I
described it anyway. I just described a few tricks to get the most out of
metapad, I wasn't comparing features with other editors.

There are other text editors which support this log usage too, and
notepad is just one of them.
 
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