TED Notepad

The most visible characteristic of TED Notepad is the number of text functions it offers, including:

• Several letter case conversions.
• Conversions of newlines between Unix and Mac platforms.
• Tools for reversing text, words or entire lines.
• Tools for word wrapping and unwrapping lines.
• Tools for (un)indenting, (un)closing or (un)tabifying text.
• Exhaustive tool for sorting lines.
• Unique lines tool, which can exclude or count duplicate lines.
• Tool for translating characters into other characters.
• Tool for cutting columns from text and adding line numbers.
• Extensive text statistics that calculate 12 different values about text.
• Support for external user-defined text plugins like grep.

Other practical features include:

• Auto-save and file backup copy.
• Favorite Esc key exit.
• Many hotkeys.
• Several internal clipboards for usual cliché.
• File size limited only by actual memory available.
• Word completion, based on the actual file dictionary - the words are offered according to words already typed.
• Copy word/line above that quickly inserts words typed directly above - very handy for writing lists, where each line starts with the same/similar words.
• Favorite files menu.
• Auto indentation and Tabs as Spaces.
• Minimize to System tray and stay on top.

• "Pricelessware" award from alt.comp.freeware participants in 2007.[2]
• "Top 10 Freeware" awards from editors of Freeware-Guide.com in March 2006,[3] June 2006,[4] July 2006[5] and November 2006.[6]
• "6/6 ranking" and "100% Virus & Spyware Clean" award from editors of NoNags.com.[7]
• "100% clean software" award from Softpedia.com reporting no adware, spyware or viruses present.[8]
• Multiple reviews by editors of IDG media in November 2006[9] and January 2007.[10]
• Review by editors of Svet Kompjutera in December 2006.[11]

To date, TED Notepad does not officially feature versions of the program in any language other than the original English version. The author furthermore forbids anyone to translate and distribute non-official nightly translations. Despite this, there are a few non-official translations for Chinese and French, downloadable directly from the main homepage of the program. The author warns, however, about possible danger that may come from using these translations.[12]

Because of standard windows editbox architecture used in TED Notepad, the editor does not support some of the advanced display and editing techniques like syntax highlighting or block selection. Some users find these features to be the key features of many other professional text editors.

Several users have requested improvements in design and visual feeling of the application, including the missing toolbar or multiple document interface. In response, the author stated that most of these suggestions were "out of scope" of his original interest.[13] To date, none of these features have ever been implemented. Several users also complained about the menu getting "crammed" by adding more and more features. Although the respectable number of various editing functions is the main feature of the application, it is also a sticking point of its design.[13]

Several users have reported various troubles when printing documents from TED Notepad, for example setting up a printing font size.[13]