Freeware Descriptions:

MadEdit is an Open-Source & Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets. MadEdit can edit files in Text/Column/Hex modes, and supports many useful functions, e.g. SyntaxHighlightings, WordWrap, Encodings.

Here is complete features (taken from authors site):

  • MadEdit can run under Linux, FreeBSD and Win32 platforms.
  • Edits files in Text, Column and Hex modes.
  • In Hex-Mode, MadEdit can open large files which size is up to 32GB (INT_MAX*16).
  • Users can change the encoding of files at runtime like Web-Browsers.
  • Supports many encodings, e.g. Unicode(UTF-8, UTF-16/32 with Little or Big Endian), Big5, GBK and S-JIS etc.
  • Supports Unicode CJK Ext-B.
  • If users input a character that is not supported by current encoding, this character will be converted to U+XXXX. Unicode format.
  • Regular Expression search & replace (by using Boost.Xpressive).
  • Opens multiple files on single instance.
  • Supports syntax-highlighting of many programming languages, e.g. awk, C/C++, CSS, diff/patch, DOS Batch Script, Flash ActionScript, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Lua, Pascal, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, UNIX Shell Script, x86 Assembly, XML, Fortran, TeX/LaTeX, Squirrel, C#, Visual Basic, ASP(VBScript).
  • MadEdit can view ASCII-Art files under Win32 platform.

What’s New in version 0.2.9:

  • added that restore the encoding and font(name, size) of a file when reopening it.
  • added that use Ctrl+MouseWheel to decrease or increase the font size.
  • added Japanese language. Thank Tilt for the translations.
  • fixed a bug when converting between Tab and Space char in wordwrap mode.
  • modified that the dialogs will stay on top of main window, not top of all windows.
  • modified the action when associating file types.
  • some minor changes.

MadEdit 0.2.9 Screenshot

File Size / OS:

  • 1.02 MB / Windows 9x - ME - 2000 - NT - XP - 2003 - Vista

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