Here's what Bremer Corporation says about their product:

ftp://ftp.bremercorp.com/vendors/bremercorp.com/freeware/notespad.txt
http://www.BremerCorp.com/

Notespad is a multi-file editor that uses a tabbed-notebook interface instead of the Windows 3.1 MDI interface. The file "windows" in this interface are called tabs because you normally use the "tab" at the bottom of each page to access them.

Notespad lets you quickly perform system editing functions and maintain handy on-line "todo" lists and other lists that you desire. Each file may be up to 16 MBytes long (depending upon memory available).

* * * One of the most exciting features of Notespad is that it can become your system associated editor (replacing Windows Notepad) even when it is already running! Just redefine your text files (*.TXT) default editor from NOTEPAD.EXE to NOTESPAD.EXE (note the 'S') and watch the fun begin!

NotesPad is great as a text viewer when configured for in Netscape. Just go to General Preferences and set NotesPad as your HTML editor.

Word wrap, "paper" wrap and text sorting are supported along with other standard editing functions.

Moving around is quick and easy! You may use Alt+1 to Alt+0 to move between different tabs with the keyboard. You can move to the previous and next tab with Ctrl+Shift+Tab and Ctrl+Tab. You can scroll up and down with Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down. You can move to the previous and next non-empty paragraph with Alt+Up and Alt+Down.

You may drag programs from Windows Explorer and most file managers directly into tab(s) for editing.

When using the toolbar buttons, holding the Shift button down while pressing the Save button will bring up the Save As dialog box; holding the Shift key down while pressing the Print button brings up the Print Setup dialog box.

< Notespad's Menu Items... >

FILE
New
Closes the file in the current tab, if one exists, and starts a new file for that tab.

Open
Opens an existing file for the current tab.

Recent File
Lists the previously opened files for easy file retrieval.

Recent Directory
Lists the previously opened directories for easy file retrieval.

Update
Quickly reloads the current file and returns to the exact same location in the file. This is great for periodically viewing a log file that is growing or changing.

Save
Saves the file in the current tab.

Save & Backup
Allows you to backup the current disk version of the active file before saving the new version.

Save As
Saves the file in the current tab to a new name.

Replace As
Saves the file in the current tab to a new name while deleting the original file name afterwards.

Print
Prints the file in the current tab. Please note that if word wrap or paper wrap are not selected then they will both be automatically selected before printing takes place.

Print Setup
Accesses the Windows Print Setup dialog.

Quick Add
In addition to standard system files located on the Quick menu, you may add up to 20 files of your own to be housed here making it extremely easy to edit these files when desired. This command adds the file currently being edited.

Quick Delete
In addition to standard system files located on the Quick menu, you may add up to 20 files of your own to be housed here making it extremely easy to edit these files when desired. This command removes the file currently being edited from the Quick menu.

Exit
Quits Notespad.

EDIT
Undo
Undo the previous action, like cutting or pasting, if possible.

Redo
This command will undo your last undo. It will even undo all of your undos, one at a time.

Cut
Cuts the highlighted text to the Windows clipboard.

Copy
Copies the highlighted text to the Windows clipboard.

Paste
Pastes text from the Windows clipboard.

Delete
Removes highlighted text from the current file without destroying the cut/paste buffer. In other words, this deletion is not protected (except with the Undo command).

Sort Lines
Sort highlighted lines in ascending order. Highlighted text of up to 32K (16-bit) or 64K (32-bit) may be sorted.

Select All
Selects all text in the file in the current tab.

Date
Inserts current date information into the current tab's file.

Date/Time
Inserts current date and time information into the current tab's file.

Window Wrap
Toggles word wrap for the current tab only. You may also press F2 to toggle word wrap.

Paper Wrap
While standard word wrap wraps the text of a file to fit inside the file window, Paper Wrap allows you to wrap the text to a column that will exactly fill a portrait-oriented 8½ x 11" page, no matter what font size you are using. (No other page widths are supported with this version.)

Remove CRLFs
Remove all carriage returns and line feeds (also known as line endings) from your file. Blank lines and lines starting with a tab character are ignored. This is a great way to turn a "hard" document into a "soft" document (one that can respond to word wrap). This command is not available if word wrap is currently on.

SEARCH
Find
Searches for text from the cursor position in the current tab.

Find Next
Repeats the previous search command (not the previous replace command).

Replace
Searches for and replaces text from the cursor position in the current tab.

Go To
Go to a particular line number -or- go to the next line starting with a certain letter or phrase (beginning spaces in lines are ignored for this purpose).

Go To Next
Repeats the previous go to line beginning with phrase command (not the previous go to line number command).

Set Marker (1..3)
Notespad allows up to three markers for each file loaded. These markers, when set, show on screen in the left margin. Use these commands to set markers for the files in the current tab.

Go To Marker (1..3)
Notespad allows up to three markers for each file loaded. These markers, when set, show on screen in the left margin. Use these commands to quickly move from one section to another of the file you are currently editing.

Last Tab
Takes you to the last tab visited before the current tab. This can make it very easy to compare two files. Simply move from one file to the next and then use this command (F4 is the shortcut) to cycle between them while you page down through each file -- probably the best visual way of comparing files available.

Previous Tab
Goes to the previous tab.

Next Tab
Goes to the next tab.

QUICK
System Files List
A list of system files available for easy access and editing.

Quick File List
Files that you add to or delete from the Notespad Quick menu. These files are then quickly available for recall at any time from this menu.

OPTIONS
Auto Indent
This option toggles auto indenting.

Set File Filters
This lets you define your own file filters for use with Notespad. You may also define your own default file filter. Please note that the 32-bit version uses your default file filter choice only the first time you use the file open dialog box; the remaining accesses are controlled by Windows 95 as it remembers the last file filter you used.

Set Save As Directory
Allows you to tell Notespad what directory it should use as a default when performing a File Save As or when saving a new file.

HELP
(No help file with this version.)

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