AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast.

Features
Single window mode (SDI), multi window mode (MDI);
Editing of files, which size is more than 64K (generally speaking, size isn´t theoretically limited);
Full support of Unicode strings on Unicode systems (NT/2000/XP/2003);
Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-8);
Support of any code page installed in the system;
Support of DOS/Windows and Unix newline formats;
Preview file open;
Correct pseudographics displaying;
Editing of files with "Read Only" attribute;
Notice when trying to open binary file;
Multi-level undo;
Search/replace text strings, escape-sequences and also search/replace by hexadecimal code;
Remember file codepage;
Remember file caret position;
Remember last search/replace strings;
Remember last opened files;
Plugins support;
Support of language modules;
Printing of a document;

What's New
Changed: AkelEdit now uses character by character painting.
Changed: selection by pressing on left mouse button in left margin.
Changed: if wrap by symbols is used, then document print also will be with wrap by symbols.
Added: support for UTF-16 surrogate pairs.
Added: 4430 command - paste text after caret.
Added: support for text Drag'n'Drop containing NULL symbol (between AkelEdit windows).
Fixed: correct open/save UTF-8 text containing surrogate pairs.
Fixed: hyperlink, located at line start, didn't highlighted in 4.2.5.
Fixed: word wrap updating after text margings change.
Fixed: split window updating after word wrap change.