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;

Whats New
Added: "Whole word" in find/replace dialog.
Added: possibility to set left and right URL delimiters.
Added: left mouse button scrolling in print preview dialog.
Added: possibility to use text selection together with middle mouse button scrolling.
Fixed: codepage recognition in 4.3.1.
Fixed: text search with flag AEFR_WHOLEWORD.
Fixed: print of a text containing surrogate pairs.