New: AkelPad Portable 4.5.3 (plaintext editor) Released

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Submitted by gluxon on January 19, 2011 - 7:01pm

logoAkelPad Portable 4.5.3 has been released. AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text that is designed to be a small and fast. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

Read on for more details...

PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 5 users who already have this app installed, simply click 'Check for Updates' in your PA.c Menu to update to the new version.

Features

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  • Single window (SDI), multi-window (MDI) and pseudo multi-window modes (PMDI);
  • Full support of Unicode strings on Unicode systems (NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Seven);
  • Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-32BE);
  • Support of any codepage installed in the system;
  • Support of DOS/Windows, Unix and Mac newline formats;
  • Preview file open;
  • Correct pseudographics displaying;
  • Column text selection;
  • Multi-level undo;
  • Fast search/replace text strings;
  • Remember file codepage and caret position;
  • Printing of a document and print preview;
  • Support of language modules;
  • Plugins support (syntax highlighting, folding, auto-completion, scripts execution, keyboard macros and much more).

Learn more about AkelPad...

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

AkelPad Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

AkelPad Portable is available for immediate download from the AkelPad Portable homepage. Get it today!

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John T. Haller's picture

John T. Haller

January 19, 2011 - 7:01pm

Thanks for your work on this, Brandon. And welcome to the team! Smile

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

rangaroo

January 19, 2011 - 8:32pm

Good to see a useful app appear.

There is a 64bit version.
Would you portabalize this too?

thanks

rangaroo

January 20, 2011 - 12:34pm

I re-read the node you point to and I still don't see where it addresses the issue of the limitations of 32 bit in re file size, ram on board, etc.

One reason some move to 64 bit is that large files (1 GB+, frex) can now
be worked on without any disk involvement -- if you have the 3x - 4x filesize amount of ram.

So - a 1GB file (small for some data applications) works well if there is
3 - 4 GB of ram on board. Have 1+ such files open asks for muore ram.

So - buying 64 bit architecture and provisioning enough ram allows better workflow for more data.

With 32 bit only there might be that old bugaboo - disk thrashing.

I hope this makes my request a little less opaque.

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Darkbee

January 20, 2011 - 12:54pm

This is only valid if the application itself supports opening of large files, which it may not. Just because the RAM is available doesn't mean the application can use it, regardless of 32 or 64 bit.

rangaroo

January 21, 2011 - 6:57pm

Akelpad is being commented on as 64 bit potential app because it
is designed to handle file sizes limited only by memory.

hope this helps

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John T. Haller

January 20, 2011 - 1:48pm

The >1GB file size is also inapplicable to nearly all apps, including AkelPad. It's a plaintext editor. No one works with plaintext files of >1GB in a portable scenario. And I'd wager none of the text editors we have could handle that. The only app where I've seen anyone deal with >1GB file sizes is 7-Zip, and even that doesn't pull the whole thing into memory.

If you have additional info to add in 32 and 64-bit app discussions, please do so in that blog post I linked. It doesn't apply to AkelPad.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

rangaroo

January 21, 2011 - 7:06pm

No comment about "no one works with ... ".

You do mention *portable* scenario so I'll respond to that.

We use very few of the protable apps as portable. We like well perfoming apps that
are contained (or sandboxed if you will). We install, test and, if the app passes muster, move the usb stick directory to hdd. Anyone in a production scenario would never use usb based apps for day to day work.

I suppose this use of portable apps is allowed?

Given the above, it makes a great deal of sense to inquire if a particular app, in this case akelpad which is designed to handle file sizes to the limits of memory, and is offered as a 64 bit download (minus most of the plugins), could be wrapped in the portable apps format.

I hope this makes the request merit a little less of a dismissive attitude.

thanks for all the great work - I hope feedback and input is appreciated.

_peter_

January 20, 2011 - 4:31am

Thank you very much for making this portable! I have been using this application for a good while now and, for me, it's the best text editor there is. Thank you!

jeslouwa

January 20, 2011 - 11:18am

Has the encryption/decryption function been deactivated for the portable version? When I go to theAkelPad toobar's "Plugin" to activate, this pops up:

"Format::Encrypt" doesn't support autoload.
***

When I check the "AkelPad plugs" folder, it is already installed, so has it been deactivated?

The only thing was changed for the portable version was to have AkelPad write to an INI instead of the registry by default.

Like it says, the Format::Encrypt plugin doesn't support autoload. You have to select it, and then hit the "Call" button.