PSPad is an advanced free text editor oriented to programmers and available for Windows operating systems.

Computer programming has become something indispensable in the world of computer science. Over the years, it evolved greatly, and new programming languages and paradigms have appeared. Even though learning programming is simple, thanks to the multitude of tutorials and tools freely available to anyone who wants to enter this exciting world, mastering a programming language takes time.
A good programmer can be considered an artist; like any good artist, it is important to have the appropriate tools to carry out their task.

PSPad is a powerful tool that allows programmers to focus on solving a problem using source code and forget about the tasks that distract them from the code.

This program supports syntax highlighting of many programming languages: C/C++, Fortran, HTML, CSS, MS-DOS Batch, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, Perl, Object Pascal, Visual Basic, XML, and more.

We can use this editor to edit individual files or create a Project that spans multiple files, and this way, when we open an existing Project, all the files related to that Project will be opened. For example, if we are creating a web page, we will create a new Project and include all the files related to that Project: HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP.

The program has a series of tools to ease the programming:

• Code Explorer : shown here is a summary of the functions, arrays, files imported, etc. Depending on the programming language we are writing, a series of data or others will appear. Thanks to this summary, we can quickly see the structures that make up the file we are editing.
• ASCII Table : This table contains all the ASCII characters and their correspondence in Decimal, Hex, and HTML code.
• Color Converter : easily converts between HTML code, the name of the color, absolute RGB, and RGB percentage. Very useful if we are writing code on a CSS file.
• Lorem Ipsum Generator : This tool generates a random text without any meaning. It is very useful when we create demo web pages whose only goal is to preview how the web design will be. With this generator, we can create texts of several paragraphs with a variable density of words.
• Text Comparator : this tool compares the text of the two files and highlights the differences that exist between both.
• Numeric Converter : converts a number between different numbering systems: Decimal, Hexadecimal, Binary, Roman Numerals, N-Base, and Time.

An important aspect of programming is the search in source code. This program includes a powerful search engine that allows you to find and replace text, search in files, find the parenthesis, brace, or bracket, or search directly on Google.

This advanced editor was released in 2001, and actually, it is still updated and improving. This makes that this editor has a multitude of features adapted to the needs of the programmers.