This was a toy project to help me practice using Free Pascal and Lazarus, it was abandoned in May 2025 before becoming feature complete. The notable features missing are find+search and the About dialog, and probably quite a few more niceties (like asking for confirmation when selecting File→New).

It has one simple goal: clone Microsoft Notepad from Windows XP. The text editor in Windows XP is still fairly simple, but reached a point that Microsoft did not feel a need to add further features until Windows 11's Notepad where it was rewritten to have tabs, session auto-saving, CoPilot integration, Microsoft 365 subscriptions, and Markdown rendering.

I did not want any of this. If I want a plain, simple text editor, I want the Windows XP Notepad. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Version 0.1.0 is available as:

• Windows on 32-bit x86
• Windows on 64-bit x86
• Linux on 64-bit x86, GTK+ 2 toolkit
• Linux on 64-bit x86, Qt 6 toolkit
• Source code

How it looks

Microsoft Windows XP

Linux (KDE environment) with GTK+ 2

Linux (KDE environment) with Qt 6