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| Notepad (W95 SE) | Notepad (W98 SE) | Notepad XP Home) | HABEdit ver 2 | HABPad ver 2 | |
| Program size (Kb) | 34 | 52 | 65 | 387 | 378 |
| Minimum OS | (Win 95SE) | (Win 98SE) | (Win XP Home) | Win 95 | Win 95 |
| Opens multiple files |  | | |  | |
| Toolbar | | | | | |
| View as Hex | | | | | |
| Hex edit | | | | | |
| Standard shortcuts | 6 | 6 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| Retains last state | | | | | |
Program Size
HABEdit and HABPad have much larger program sizes than any of the Notepad versionsOpens multiple files
Notepad can view only one file at a time whereas HABEdit and HABPad can open several files in different windows which can be cascaded, tiled or arranged as you wish. This helps you to compare one file with another.Toolbar
HABEdit and HABPad have a toolbar with shortcut buttons which you can click on for the most common operations.View as Hex
HABEdit and HABPad can open non-text files (and text files) in Hex-view so that their contents can be examined in detail. HABEdit can be used as a Hex-editor.Hex edit
In HABEdit you can Edit a file in Hex-view.WARNING a Hex-editor is a very powerful tool and since you cannot immediately see the effect of an edit, it is a very dangerous one.
HABPad, without Hex-editing, is available for this reason.
Windows 9X versions of Notepad use a limited number of shortcut keys: Crtl+Z Undo Ctrl+X Cut Ctrl+C Copy Ctrl+V Paste F3 Find next F1 Show help (not shown in menu) In addition to the above, Windows XP Notepad, HABEdit and HABPad use the following standard shortcut keys: Ctrl+O Open file (text) Ctrl+S Save Ctrl+P Print (text-view only) Ctrl+A Select all (text-view only) Ctrl+F Find Ctrl+R Replace (text-view only)
(XP Notepad uses Ctrl+H)Retains last state
When you run Win 9X versions of Notepad they alway opens in the default state, in the same window size and screen position and when you use the file-open dialog, text files are the dafault.HABPad and HABEditand Notepad XP, on the other hand, retain the last window size, position and state (maximized or normal) and font setting, folder selected and file-type. (Notepad XP does not retain file-type)
| Notepad (W95 SE) | Notepad (W98 SE) | Notepad XP Home) | HABEdit ver 2 | HABPad ver 2 | |
| Maximum file size | 58Kb | 57Kb | 2Gb | 2Gb | 2Gb |
| If file > max. size | Runs Wordpad | Runs Wordpad | Attempts to load all | Loads up to preset limit | Loads up to preset limit |
| Font-Select | | | | | |
| Whole-word Search | | | | | |
| Replace | | |  | | |
| Adjust tab-stop spacing | | | | | |
| Cursor-position indicator | | | | | |
| Read-only mode | | | | | |
| Null to blank conversion | Automatic and unannounced | Automatic and unannounced | Automatic and unannounced | Optional | Optional |
| Adjust linebreaks | | | | | |
| Import text | | | | | |
| Export text | | | | | |
| Unicode Support | | | | | |
| Page setup | | | | | |
| Time-log documents | | | | | |
Maximum file size
This is the largest size of file that each program can open in text-view.The Windows 9X versions of Notepad will load around 58Kb and if presented with a larger file, will offer to open it in Wordpad instead.
Notepad XP, HABPad and HABEdit each will potentially load a maximum of 2GKb into text view. HABPad and HABEdit will stop loading and display what has been loaded when the pre-set maximum is reached.
Replace
Notepad XP, HABPad and HABEdit have a replace function.Tag-stop spacing
In HABPad and HABEdit you can adjust the tab-stop spacing.
The only difference between HABEdit and HABPad is that in HABEdit you can edit in hex-view but in HABPad you cannot.
For further information, contact
Henry Bartlett
email: habitsoft@gmail.com