Text Editor with Advanced and Flexible Search and Replace

EditPad Lite sports one of the most extensive search-and-replace features of any text editor. Quickly find the part of the file you want to edit. Automate much tedious editing with clever use of EditPad Lite’s search-and-replace.

• Toggle between a compact Search toolbar and a multi-line search panel. Or hide them both when not needed.
• The search panel sits docked below the editing area, rather than floating on top and partly obscuring it.
• Enter or paste any amount of text in the multi-line search and replace boxes.
• Search forward or backward, from the current text cursor position or the start/end of the file.
• Search or search-and-replace through the current file only, the current selection only, or all open files.
• Control which matches are replaced using the Search, Replace and Replace&Search Next toolbar buttons or corresponding keyboard shortcuts. No annoying pop-up prompts asking if you want to replace.
• Highlight search matches to keep them in view, even as you edit the file.
• Incremental Search finds the next occurrence of the search term as you type in the search term, and backs up if you press backspace to delete the search term.
• Cut matches removes all search matches and puts them on the clipboard.
• Copy matches copies all search matches to the clipboard.
• Turn on the adapt case option to preserve upper, lower, and title case when doing a case insensitive search-and-replace.
• Turn on the all files option to search through all open files in the active project.
• Turn on the all projects option to search through all open files in all open projects.
• Turn on the line by line option to select, replace, cut, or copy the entire line when a match is found.
• Turn on the inverted line by line option to select, replace, cut, or copy only those lines in which the search term cannot be found.
• Use regular expressions to make complex replacements that you’d need to do manually otherwise. Use backreferences in the replacement text to reuse part or all of the search match in the replacement. Powered by the regex engine developed for PowerGREP, which easily handles huge files, any encoding, and doesn’t stop on line breaks unless you want it to.
• Get assistance from RegexBuddy and RegexMagic to easily create regular expressions. (RegexBuddy and RegexMagic are available separately.)
• Repeat any of the last 16 searches via the Search History.