fast, tiny and powerful Windows notepad replacement

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“Metapad is a great choice for those who like their text editors small, fast, and free.” - ZDNet Downloads

Metapad is a small, fast and completely free text editor for Windows (95/98/NT/XP/Vista/7) with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more.

Metapad's feature set includes:

Persistent window placement
Dirty file notification
Intelligent Find and Replace
External viewer support (e.g. web browser)
Usable accelerator keys (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+N, etc.)
Dual customizable font support
Optional Quick Exit (Esc key)
Configurable tab stop setting
Auto-indent mode
Go to Line/Column
Seamless UNIX text file support
Block indent and unindent (Tab, Shift+Tab)
Recent files list
No file size limit! (under Win9x)
Hyperlink support
Portability mode (INI mode)
Over 30 customized UI language plugins

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What's New (news archive)

September 20, 2015: Metapad now has a sibling app called Minipad, a kids text editor for iPhone and iPad!

May 28, 2011: Metapad 3.6 final is available for download here. Read about all of the new features in 3.6 here.