PSPad - text and code editor

PSPad is a freeware programmer's editor for Microsoft Windows operating systems, useful for people who:

• work with various programming environments
• like highlighted syntax in their source code
• need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor
• are looking for a tool that handles plain text
• want to save time - PSPad offers rich text formating functions
• need a tool that offers user extension capabilities
• want to save money and still have the functionality of professional products because PSPad is free for commercial and government purposes too

List of changes, history and bug corrections is available here

If you have a problem or question, you can visit the PSPad discussion forum. After registration you can receive messages for chosen topics via e-mail.

PSPad beta versions are published in the discussion forum. You can download them without any restrictions, test new program functions and have bugs corrected before the full release is available.

The latest build published in the forum is 5.5.1 (817)

• Code Folding, changed lines indicator
• access to ChatGPT directly from PSPad
• work with projects
• work with several documents at the same time (MDI)
• save desktop sessions to later reopen all session files
• FTP client - edit files directly from the web
• macro recorder to record, save and load macros
• search and replace in files
• text difference with color-coded differences highlighted
• templates (HTML tags, scripts, code templates...)
• installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl,...
• syntax highlighting according to file type
• user-defined highlighters for exotic environments
• auto correction
• intelligent internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla
• full HEX editor
• call different external programs for different environments
• external compiler with output catcher, log window and log parser for an "IDE" effect in every environment
• color syntax highlight printing and print preview
• integrated TiDy library for formatting and checking HTML code, conversion to CSS, XML, XHTML
• integrated free version of the top CSS editor TopStyle Lite
• export with highlight to RTF, HTML, TeX format to file or clipboard
• column block select, bookmarks, line numbers, ...
• reformat and compress HTML code, tag character case change
• line sorting with ability to sort on defined columns and drop duplicates
• ASCII chart with HTML entities
• Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development
• spell checker
• internal web browser with APACHE support
• matching bracket highlighting
• ...(many more features, too numerous to list)