# BowPad

**Repository Path**: nkjpj/BowPad

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: BowPad
- **Description**: A simple and fast text editor with a ribbon UI
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: GPL-3.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 1
- **Created**: 2019-11-05
- **Last Updated**: 2021-02-06

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# BowPad
A simple and fast text editor with a ribbon UI

[![Build Status](https://tortoisesvn.visualstudio.com/tortoisesvnGitHub/_apis/build/status/stefankueng.BowPad)](https://tortoisesvn.visualstudio.com/tortoisesvnGitHub/_build/latest?definitionId=5)

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
- extendable with [plugins](https://tools.stefankueng.com/BowPad_plugins.html) written in JScript or VBScript

[![BowPad with default color theme](https://tools.stefankueng.com/img/bowpad/BowPadDefaultTheme-small.27006c89.png)](https://tools.stefankueng.com/img/bowpad/BowPadDefaultTheme.fc56fdf3.png)
[![BowPad with dark color theme](https://tools.stefankueng.com/img/bowpad/BowPadDarkTheme-small.1f85b4ea.png)](https://tools.stefankueng.com/img/bowpad/BowPadDarkTheme.7d6cfe54.png)

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!](http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/)

Please visit the [homepage](https://tools.stefankueng.com/BowPad.html) of BowPad for more information.