Contents:

1. Compatibility
2. General remarks
3. Features
4. Command line parameters
5. Manual settings
6. Keyboard commands
7. Internal commands
8. License
9. Contributors

• Single window (SDI), multi-window (MDI) and pseudo multi-window modes (PMDI);
• Full support of Unicode strings on Unicode systems (NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Seven);
• Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-32BE);
• Support of any codepage installed in the system;
• Support of DOS/Windows, Unix and Mac newline formats;
• Preview file open;
• Correct pseudographics displaying;
• Column text selection;
• Multi-level undo;
• Fast search/replace text strings;
• Remember file codepage and caret position;
• Printing of a document and print preview;
• Support of language modules;
• Plugins support (syntax highlighting, folding, auto-completion, scripts execution, keyboard macros and much more).

/x	- don't use MS Notepad compatibility mode when parse command line parameters.
/p	- print next file and close it.
/C+	- silently create new file, if doesn't exist.
/C-	- don't create new file, if doesn't exist.
/C	- ask for new file creation, if doesn't exist (by default).
/B+	- silently open file, if binary.
/B-	- don't open file, if binary.
/B	- ask for file open, if binary (by default).
/L+	- silently save file, even if symbols will be lost in specified encoding.
/L-	- don't save file, if symbols will be lost in specified encoding.
/L	- ask for file save, if symbols will be lost in specified encoding (by default).
/Z	- ignore next command line parameter.
/reassoc	- reinstall assigned earlier associations of file types.
/deassoc	- uninstall assigned earlier associations of file types.
/quit	- stop parsing command line parameters and close program.
/end	- stop parsing command line parameters.

Methods: /OpenFile("file", [OpenCodepage], [OpenBOM]) "file" File to open. OpenCodepage Open codepage. If -1 or not specified, it will be autodetected. OpenBOM File byte order mark. If -1 or not specified, it will be autodetected. /OpenFile("C:\File.txt", 65001, -1) method opens file in UTF-8 codepage. /SaveFile("file", [SaveCodepage], [SaveBOM]) "file" Save current document to a specified file name. SaveCodepage Save codepage. If -1 or not specified, current codepage will be used. SaveBOM File byte order mark. 1 - exist, 0 - doesn't exist, -1 or not specified - current BOM will be used. /SaveFile("C:\File.txt", 65001, 0) method saves file in UTF-8 codepage without BOM. /Command(InternalCommand) /Command(4162) method calls the internal command at number 4162. /Call("Plugin::Function", [additional parameters]) /Call("Scripts::Main") method calls Scripts plugin and Main function. /Exec("command line", ["working directory"], [Wait]) "command line" Command line string. "working directory" Working directory string. Default is "". Wait Wait until the program finishes. 1 - wait, 0 - return immediately. /Exec("notepad.exe") method calls notepad. /Exec(`notepad.exe`) method calls notepad. /Exec('notepad.exe') method calls notepad. /Exec('%windir%\notepad.exe') method calls notepad. /Exec(`rundll32.exe shell32,ShellExec_RunDLL "%%f"`, "%%d") method pass an active file for opening on Windows association. /Font("FaceName", Style, Size) "FaceName" Font face, for example, "Courier". Unchanged, if "". Style (one of the following): 0 ignored. 1 normal. 2 bold. 3 italic. 4 bold italic. Size Font size. Unchanged, if 0. /Font("Courier", 4, 10) method sets Courier bold italic font with 10 pt. /Recode(RecodeFrom, RecodeTo) /Recode(1252, 437) method recodes the text from 1252 codepage to 437. /Insert("text", [Esc-sequences]) "text" Inserted text. Esc-sequences: 0 - "text" isn't contain Esc-sequences (default). 1 - "text" contain Esc-sequences. A set of sequences similar to the find/replace dialog in the program, and also: "\s" - replaced by the selected text of the editing window; "\|" - set the caret position after text insertion. /Insert("Some string") method replaces selection with the specified text. /Insert("<B>\s</B>", 1) method enclose selection. /Insert("\[0031 0032 0033]", 1) method replaces selection with "123". Variables in methods: %%f - active file %%d - directory of active file %%a - AkelPad's directory %%%% - symbol % %system variable%

CmdLineBegin	Specifies code to be added to the beginning of the command line before processing it. Example: /C+ By default: "".
CmdLineEnd	Specifies code to be added to the end of the command line before processing it. Example: /Call("Scripts::Main", 1, "InsertDate.js", "") /C /B /L By default: "".
ShowModify	Defines, where it will be possible to see, that the document is changed. Sets by the sum of members: 1 - Display "Modified" in status bar. 2 - Display asterisk * in main window title (SDI). 4 - Display asterisk * in main window title and in frame window title (MDI/PMDI). 8 - Display asterisk * in tab button name (MDI/PMDI). By default: 1+8=9, show all: 1+2+4+8=15.
StatusPosType	Defines how status bar statistics will be displayed. Sets by the sum of members: 1 - "Line:Column". By default: "Line:Symbol". 2 - Wrap line numbers. By default: Non-wrap line numbers. By default: 0.
WordBreak	Defines how the caret on Ctrl+Left/Ctrl+Right will move. Works only if enabled "Word delimiters" in settings (WordDelimitersEnable=1). Sets by the sum of members: 1 - Left movement is stopped, when word start is found. 2 - Left movement is stopped, when word end is found. 4 - Right movement is stopped, when word start is found. 8 - Right movement is stopped, when word end is found. 16 - Movement is stopped, when spacing start is found. Cannot be combined with 64. 32 - Movement is stopped, when spacing end is found. Cannot be combined with 128. 64 - Movement is continued, when spacing start is found. Cannot be combined with 16. 128 - Movement is continued, when spacing end is found. Cannot be combined with 32. 256 - Movement is stopped, when new line is found. By default: 1+2+4+8+32+64=111 (AkelEdit), 1+8=9 (AkelPad).
MouseOptions	Defines mouse settings. Sets by the sum of members: 1 - GUI. 2 - GUI. 4 - GUI. 8 - GUI. 16 - Triple click and left margin click selects only line contents without new line. By default: 1+2+4=7.
PaintOptions	Defines, some text draw settings. Sets by the sum of members: 1 - Paint text by group of characters (default is character by character). With this flag some text recognition programs could start to work, printer could print faster, but highlighted symbols and combined unicode symbols can be drawn differently and editing of whose characters may become uncomfortable. 2 - Disable drawing new line selection as space character. 4 - Draw new line selection to the right edge. 8 - Hides the selection when the control loses the input focus. 16 - Disables marker painting after last line. 256 - Hides scroll bars instead of disabling them. 512 - Draw thin edit window border. 1024 - Draw no edit window border. By default: 0.
RichEditClass	Defines edit control class name: 0 - "AkelEdit". 1 - "RichEdit20". By default: 0.
StatusUserFormat	Defines user status bar format: %ch Current character hex code in lowercase. %cH Current character hex code in uppercase. %cd Current character decimal code. %cl Current character letter. %or Offset in symbols (RichEdit). %ob Offset in bytes. %al Count of lines in document. %ar Count of symbols in document (RichEdit). %f Font size. %t Tabulation size. %m Column marker size. %se[text] Text to appear when end of the document reached during search. %r Replace count after "Replace all". %dc Count of all documents (MDI/PMDI). %dm Count of modified documents (MDI/PMDI). %ds Count of unmodified documents (MDI/PMDI). %di Active document index (MDI/PMDI). %% Symbol %. Tabulation One tabulation aligns text to center, second tabulation to right edge. Example: "Font:%f Tab:%t Docs: %dm*/%dc Symbol:0x%ch" By default: "" - format is not defined, additional status bar section is not displayed.
DateInsertFormat	Defines insert date and time format. Time: h Hours with no leading zero for single-digit hours; 12-hour clock. hh Hours with leading zero for single-digit hours; 12-hour clock. H Hours with no leading zero for single-digit hours; 24-hour clock. HH Hours with leading zero for single-digit hours; 24-hour clock. m Minutes with no leading zero for single-digit minutes. mm Minutes with leading zero for single-digit minutes. s Seconds with no leading zero for single-digit seconds. ss Seconds with leading zero for single-digit seconds. t One character time-marker string, such as A or P. tt Multicharacter time-marker string, such as AM or PM. Date: d Day of month as digits with no leading zero for single-digit days. dd Day of month as digits with leading zero for single-digit days. ddd Day of week as a three-letter abbreviation. dddd Day of week as its full name. M Month as digits with no leading zero for single-digit months. MM Month as digits with leading zero for single-digit months. MMM Month as a three-letter abbreviation. MMMM Month as its full name. y Year as last two digits, but with no leading zero for years less than 10. yy Year as last two digits, but with leading zero for years less than 10. yyyy Year represented by full four digits. gg Period/era string. Example: "H:mm:ss dd MMMM yyyy" -> "12:50:24 01 September 2010" By default: "" - program defined date and time format.
DateLogFormat	Defines date and time format for files containing ".LOG" at the beginning. Works only if enabled "Insert date if file has .LOG at the beginning" in settings (DateLog=1). See DateInsertFormat for syntax description. By default: "" - program defined date and time format.

Ctrl+X Shift+Del	cut
Ctrl+C Ctrl+Ins	copy
Ctrl+V Shift+Ins	paste
Ctrl+Shift+V Ctrl+Shift+Ins	paste text as ANSI
Alt+V	paste to column selection
Ctrl+A	select all
Backspace	delete from left
Del	delete from right
Ctrl+Z	undo
Ctrl+Shift+Z	redo
Home	go to start of line
End	go to end of line
Ctrl+Home	go to start of text
Ctrl+End	go to end of text
Ctrl+Left	go to start of word
Ctrl+Right	go to end of word
Ctrl+Up	go to start of previous line
Ctrl+Down	go to start of next line
Ctrl+PageUp	go to first visible character
Ctrl+PageDown	go to last visible character
Ctrl+Backspace	delete left word
Ctrl+Del	delete right word
Ctrl+N	create new file
Ctrl+Shift+N	create new window
Ctrl+O	open file
F5 Ctrl+Shift+O	reopen file
F2 Ctrl+S	save
Shift+F2 Ctrl+Shift+S	save as
Ctrl+Alt+F2	save all
Ctrl+Alt+F4	close all
Ctrl+P	print
Esc Alt+F4	exit
Ctrl+F	find
F3	find next down. Search/replace dialog: close dialog and find next down.
Shift+F3	find next up. Search/replace dialog: close dialog and find next up.
Ctrl+R Ctrl+H	find and replace
Ctrl+G	go to line (by number)
Ctrl+I	run "Character map"
Ctrl+D	insert date
Ctrl+T	on/off "Always on top"
Ctrl+U	on/off "Word wrap"
Alt+W	reopen file as ANSI (Windows)
Alt+D	reopen file as OEM (DOS)
Alt+K	reopen file as KOI8-R
Alt+L	reopen file as UTF-16LE
Alt+B	reopen file as UTF-16BE
Alt+U	reopen file as UTF-8
Shift+Alt+W	save file as ANSI (Windows)
Shift+Alt+D	save file as OEM (DOS)
Shift+Alt+K	save file as KOI8-R
Shift+Alt+L	save file as UTF-16LE
Shift+Alt+B	save file as UTF-16BE
Shift+Alt+U	save file as UTF-8
Alt+F5	reopen file with code page detect
F12	show context menu for fast reopenning/saving in wanted code page
Alt+R	recode text
Shift+Backspace	delete first char
Alt+Backspace	trim trailing whitespaces
Alt+P	plugins
Ctrl+F5	execute command
Ctrl+L	on/off "Keep left spaces"
Ctrl+Enter	new line with keeping left spaces
F4 Alt+Enter	maximize/restore window
F8 Ctrl+Y	delete current line
Ctrl+Num +	increase font by 1 pt
Ctrl+Num -	decrease font by 1 pt
Ctrl+5	change case in loop
Ctrl+6	selected text, as "UPPERCASE"
Ctrl+7	selected text, as "lowercase"
Ctrl+8	selected text, as "Sentence case."
Ctrl+9	selected text, as "Title Case"
Ctrl+0	selected text, as "iNVERT cASE"
F6	go to next dialog
Shift+F6	go to previous dialog
F9	activate next pane (split window)
Shift+F9	activate previous pane (split window)
F10	select window dialog (MDI/PMDI)
Ctrl+Tab Ctrl+F6	next window (MDI/PMDI)
Ctrl+Shift+Tab Ctrl+Shift+F6	previous window (MDI/PMDI)
Ctrl+F4 Ctrl+W	close window (MDI/PMDI)

4101	Create new edit window
4102	Create new instance of program
4103	Open file dialog
4104	Reopen file
4105	Save file
4106	Save file dialog
4107	Print setup dialog
4108	Print dialog
4109	Exit program
4110	Save all documents
4111	Save all as dialog
4113	Print without dialog
4114	Print preview dialog
4121	Redetect code page of the current file
4122	Reopen file as ANSI
4123	Reopen file as OEM
4124	Reopen file as KOI-R
4125	Reopen file as UTF16LE
4126	Reopen file as UTF16BE
4127	Reopen file as UTF8
4131	Save file as ANSI
4132	Save file as OEM
4133	Save file as KOI-R
4134	Save file as UTF16LE
4135	Save file as UTF16BE
4136	Save file as UTF8
4137	Save file as UTF8 without BOM
4140	Show codepages context menu
4151	Undo last operation
4152	Redo last operation
4153	Cut
4154	Copy
4155	Paste
4156	Delete
4157	Select all
4158	Find dialog
4159	Find last string down
4160	Find last string up
4161	Replace dialog
4162	Go to line dialog
4163	Run charmap.exe
4164	Insert tabulation
4165	Insert tabulation only if several lines selected
4166	Delete tabulation
4167	Delete tabulation only if several lines selected
4168	Insert space
4169	Insert space only if several lines selected
4170	Delete space
4171	Delete space only if several lines selected
4172	Delete first char
4173	Delete first char only if selection not empty
4174	Delete trailing whitespaces
4175	Convert text to "UPPERCASE"
4176	Convert text to "lowercase"
4177	Convert text to "Sentence case."
4178	Convert text to "Title Case"
4179	Convert text to "iNVERT cASE"
4180	Cycle case
4182	Recode dialog
4183	Insert date
4184	Windows new line format
4185	Unix new line format
4186	Mac new line format
4190	Insert/Overtype mode
4191	Paste as ANSI text
4192	Paste to column selection
4193	Paste text after caret
4196	Insert new line with keeping left spaces
4197	Delete current line
4201	Font dialog
4202	Color theme dialog
4204	Increase font 1pt
4205	Decrease font 1pt
4206	Restore font size
4209	Word wrap (on\off)
4210	Always on top (on\off)
4211	Show statusbar (on\off)
4212	Split window into four panes
4213	Split window into two vertical panes
4214	Split window into two horizontal panes
4216	Read only (on\off)
4251	Execute command
4252	Save file time (on\off)
4253	Watch file change (on\off)
4254	Keep space (on\off)
4255	Single open file (on\off)
4256	Single open program (on\off)
4259	Plugins dialog
4260	Options dialog
4261	SDI mode
4262	MDI mode
4263	Pseudo MDI mode
4301	Tab list window at the top of the main window
4302	Tab list window at the bottom of the main window
4303	Hide tab list
4304	Standard tab list style
4305	Buttons tab list style
4306	Flat buttons tab list style
4307	MDI windows - horizontal tile
4308	MDI windows - vertical tile
4309	MDI windows - cascade
4310	Switch tabs: next-previous.
4311	Switch tabs: right-left.
4316	Activate next tab
4317	Activate previous tab
4318	Close current tab
4319	Close all tabs
4320	Close all tabs but active
4321	Close all unmodified tabs
4324	Close file
4325	Close file and exit program (SDI) or close tab of a file (MDI/PMDI).
4327	Select window dialog (MDI/PMDI). Same as 10019.
4331	Restore/Maximize main window
4332	Activate next dialog window
4333	Activate previous dialog window
4341	Activate next pane (split window)
4342	Activate previous pane (split window)
4351	About dialog
4352	Open user's manual
5001	Delete dead recent files
5001 + n	Open recent file n
6001	Activate internal language
6001 + n	Activate language n
7001	Reopen file in first codepage of codepage list
7001 + n	Reopen file in codepage n of codepage list
8001	Save file in first codepage of codepage list
8001 + n	Save file in codepage n of codepage list
10019	Select window dialog (MDI/PMDI). Same as 4327.