I'm looking for a lite (nothing fancy like notepad++, just simple notepad), open source WordPad replacement. It would be great if it could save and open hyperlinks and export files to HTML.
Any suggestions?
If open source isn't a necessity, Jarte is a great free Wordpad replacement. It uses Microsoft's Wordpad engine actually.
Some Features:
- Fully compatible with Windows Vista
- Tabbed interface to provide easy access to open documents
- Opens files with file extension RTF, file extension DOC, and file extension DOCX (new default format in Word 2007)
- Fast start up
- Compact screen size
- Hot Connect lets you use Jarte with other programs
- Optional "Clickless Operation" feature greatly reduces clicking
- Can be run directly from a pluggable USB flash drive
- High quality spell checker with custom user dictionary
- Included spelling dictionaries: English (American, British, & Canadian), Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch
- Link to, or import, your existing custom Word spelling dictionaries
- Support for templates
- Export to HTML or PDF
- Single click bookmarking and bookmark navigation
- Send documents via e-mail
- Full drag and drop file support
- Instant access to recently opened documents and folders
- Instant access to documents and folders designated as favorites
- Adjustable document zoom
- Detailed Help documentation
- Insert pictures, hyperlinks, tables, page breaks, equations and other embeddable objects
It isn't the greatest looking software, but it does the job:
Notepad++ is probably "lighter" than Wordpad (which isn't even meant for the purpose you're using it for).
I suggest Programmers Notepad, or Eclipse for something more full-featured.
Also; any text editor can "export" to HTML.
<i>
tags when saving.
Try Notepad2 if Notepad++ isn't to your liking: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html