A simple and fast text editor with a ribbon UI

A few notable features of BowPad:

• syntax highlighting for over 100 file types and languages
• handling of many different encodings, including UTF-8, UTF-16 and even UTF-32
• easy ribbon user interface
• navigation hints in the vertical scrollbar
• coloring of open tabs according to their path
• can open files bigger than 2GB
• extendable with plugins written in JScript or VBScript

And before you ask: the name BowPad comes from the fact that it uses the ribbon user interface. Ribbon → Bow, Editor → NotePad= BowPad. And of course we all know that Bowties are cool!

Please visit the homepage of BowPad for more information.