ShowTx

ShowTx is a lightweight text editor that features standard options and offers support for UTF-8, UTF-16 and ANSI encoding modes. It can be handled by casual users or those looking for a straightforward word processor without complicated options.

It's wrapped in a user-friendly interface made from a single window with a simple design and layout, where you can type or paste text, cut, copy, paste, delete and select all text, as well as undo and redo your actions.

Moreover, you can pick the encoding mode between ANSI, UTF-8 and UTF-17, view path information, hide the menu and status bars, make the frame stay on top of other windows, and configure font settings (e.g. type, style, size, effects, color, script).

It's also possible to set a preferred background color, wrap words, find the first and last occurrence of a word, open a new instance of the program, as well as save contents to a plain text document by indicating the destination folder and filename.

There is no setup pack involved, which makes the app portable. This means that you can save the downloaded executable file to a custom directory on the disk or store it on a removable storage device, in order to launch it on any machine without setup and with as little effort as possible.

ShowTx doesn't add new entries to the system registry or need libraries to run. However, it auto-creates and updates an .ini file to remember you settings on exit, so make sure you're not launching it from a write-protected device.

It was stable throughout its entire runtime in our tests, without hanging, crashing or showing error messages. System resources consumption was minimal. Although it doesn't have a rich set of options, ShowTx offers a simple interface for basic text editing operations.