AkelPad 3 - Online Help

AkelPad 3 - User's Manual

Compatibility

Programs is intended to work under Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003.

General remarks

Notepad is a wonderful editor, being used to edit files in plain text format, thus it is irreplacable for programming, designing of Web documents, and so on. However, the one comprised in Windows, is very inconvenient due to several limitations. This program claims to be able to fill up these drawbacks.
Attention: this program takes a lot of advantages from Unicode representation. It is strongly recommended that you set up TrueType font (as Courier New) to gain more advantages from this feature.

Features

As long as the program is intended to replace standard Notepad, it's target is plain text files, it doesn't support RTF files and so on - it isn't a drawback, it's a feature. Brief description of general features:

Single window mode (SDI), multi window mode (MDI);
Editing of files, which size is more than 64K (generally speaking, size isn't theoretically limited);
Full support of Unicode strings on Unicode systems (NT/2000/XP/2003);
Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-8);
Support of any code page installed in the system;
Support of DOS/Windows and Unix newline formats;
Preview file open;
Correct pseudographics displaying;
Editing of files with "Read Only" attribute;
Notice when trying to open binary file;
Multi-level undo;
Search/replace text strings, escape-sequences and also search/replace by hexadecimal code;
Remember file codepage;
Remember file caret position;
Remember last search/replace strings;
Remember last opened files;
Plugins support;
Support of language modules;
Printing of a document;
...

Settings are saved only in registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Akelsoft\AkelPad key).

Command line parameters

AkelPad.exe [options] "file1.ext" "file2.ext" ...

options:

/c+

/c-

/b+

/b-

- print
- silent create new file, if doesn't exist
- don't create new file, if doesn't exist
- silent open file, if binary
- don't open file, if binary

Keyboard commands

Ctrl+X

Ctrl+C

Ctrl+V

Ctrl+A

Backspace

Del

Ctrl+Z

Ctrl+Shift+Z

Home

End

Ctrl+Home

Ctrl+End

Shift+Home

Shift+End

Ctrl+Shift+Home

Ctrl+Shift+End

Ctrl+Left

Ctrl+Right

Ctrl+Shift+Left

Ctrl+Shift+Right

Ctrl+Backspace

Ctrl+Delete

Ctrl+N

Ctrl+Shift+N

Ctrl+O

F5 or Ctrl+Shift+O

F2 or Ctrl+S

Ctrl+Shift+S

Ctrl+P

Esc or Alt+F4

Ctrl+F

Shift+F3

Ctrl+R or Ctrl+H

Ctrl+G

Ctrl+I

Ctrl+T

Ctrl+U

Alt+W

Alt+D

Alt+K

Alt+U

Alt+R

Shift+Backspace

Ctrl+F5

Ctrl+L

F4 or Alt+Enter

F8 or Ctrl+Y

Ctrl+Shift+V or
Ctrl+Shift+Ins

Ctrl+Num +

Ctrl+Num -

Ctrl+6

Ctrl+7

Ctrl+8

Ctrl+9

Ctrl+0

Ctrl+Tab or
Ctrl+F6

Ctrl+Shift+Tab or
Ctrl+Shift+F6

Ctrl+F4 or
Ctrl+W

- cut
- copy
- paste
- select all
- delete from left
- delete from right
- undo
- redo
- go to start of line
- go to end of line
- go to start of text
- go to end of text
- select to start line
- select to end line
- select to start text
- select to end text
- go to start of word
- go to end of word
- select to start of word
- select to end of word
- delete left word
- delete right word
- create new file
- create new window
- open file
- reopen file
- save
- save as
- print
- exit
- find
- find next down
- find next up
- find and replace
- go to line (by number)
- run "Character map"
- on/off "Always on top"
- on/off "Word wrap"
- reopen file as ANSI (Windows)
- reopen file as OEM (DOS)
- reopen file as KOI8-R
- reopen file as UTF-8
- recode text
- trim trailing whatespaces
- execute command
- on/off "Keep left spaces"
- maximize/restore window
- delete current line
- paste text as ANSI

- increase font by 1 pt
- decrease font by 1 pt
- selected text, as "UPPERCASE"
- selected text, as "lowercase"
- selected text, as "Sentence case."
- selected text, as "Title Case"
- selected text, as "iNVERT cASE"
- next window (MDI)

- previous window (MDI)

- close window (MDI)

Licence

This program is distributed under "FREEWARE" and "AS IS" conditions. It means that:

You may freely use the program in non-commercial purposes and distribute not modified original archive;
Author is NOT responsible for any harm, done by the program, direct or inderect. Neither expressed nor implied warranties are given.

All other rights are reserved. Distribution or using of the program for profit is forbidden, unless you get written permission from the author.

Contacts

Kuznetsov Alexey (e-mail: developer@akelpad.net.ru; icq: 109590531)
Shengalts Aleksander (e-mail: shengalts@mail.ru)

http://akelpad.sf.net