Metapad is a small, fast and completely free text editor for Windows with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more.

Features:

Persistent window placement

Dirty file notification

Intelligent Find and Replace

External viewer support (e.g. web browser)

Usable accelerator keys (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+N, etc.)

Dual customizable font support

Optional Quick Exit (Esc key)

Configurable tab stop setting

Auto-indent mode

Go to Line/Column

Seamless UNIX text file support

Block indent and unindent (Tab, Shift+Tab)

Recent files list

No file size limit! (under Win9x)

Hyperlink support

Portability mode (INI mode)

Over 30 customized UI language plugins