AkelPad 2 - User's Manual
Contents:
- Compatibility
- General remarks
- Features
- Keyboard commands
- Licence
- Support
- Contacts
- Appendix: a little about Unicode
Compatibility
Programs is intended to work under Windows 98 and newer versions of Windows. If you are using Windows 95, you may:
- Copy files msvcrt.dll and riched20.dll to WINDOWS\SYSTEM (they are legally distributed by Microsoft as parts of VC6RedistSetup_enu.exe and InstMsiA.exe packages respectively).
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.
If you like the program, it is the most convenient to overwrite notepad.exe by akelpad.exe in Windows directory (and, possibly, WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 - if you've got Windows NT).
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:
- Editing of files, which size is more than 64K (generally speaking, size isn't theoretically limited);
- Program understands different codepages: Windows (ANSI), DOS (OEM), and any code page installed in the system.
- Correct pseudographics displaying;
- Support of Unicode (little endian, big endian, UTF-8);
- Full support of DOS/Windows and Unix newline formats;
- Editing of files with "Read Only" attribute;
- Convenient controls (especially for those, who edits many files: save on F2, delete current string on F8, exit on ESC...);
- Multi-level undo;
- Select of a font;
- Search/replace of both text strings and arbitrary character sequences (they can be entered using escape-sequences like \XX, where XX is hexadecimal character code);
- "Keep left spaces" option facilitates entering of formatted text, being especially useful when programming;
- "Don't open a file twice" option helps to avoid opening file several times;
- Printing of a document.
Settings are saved only in registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Akelsoft\AkelPad key).
Keyboard commands
- Ctrl+N - create new file
- Shift+Ctrl+N - create new window
- Ctrl+O - open file
- Shift+Ctrl+O - reopen file
- F2 or Ctrl+S - save
- Shift+Ctrl+S - save as
- Ctrl+P - print
- Esc or Alt+F4 - exit
- Shift+Ctrl+Z - redo
- Ctrl+I - run "charmap"
- Ctrl+W - toggle on/off "Wrap words" option
- Ctrl+L - toggle on/off "Keep left spaces" option
- Ctrl+F - search
- F3 - find next
- Shift+F3 - find in other direction than was specified in "Find" dialog
- Ctrl+R or Ctrl+H- find and replace
- Ctrl+G - go to line (by number)
- Shift+Ctrl+W - open in Windows (ANSI) codepage
- Shift+Ctrl+D - the same in DOS (OEM)
- Shift+Ctrl+U - in Unicode little endian
- F5 - save in Windows (ANSI)
- F6 - save in DOS-866 (OEM)
- Alt+Enter or F4 - maximize/restore window
- F8 or Ctrl+Y - delete current string
Certainly, standard Windows key combinations like Ctrl+C are also supported.
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.
Exclusive copyright of this program belongs to Kuznetsov Alexey Igorevich.
Support
This program doesn't have any known errors. If you detect any error, please, write to me its detailed description, and I will try to fix it.
Opinions about the program and suggestions for improvement are also welcomed.
Contacts
© Alexey Kuznetsov, 2003-2004.
All mentioned trademarks are registered trademarks of their respective holders.