When comparing AkelPad vs Synwrite, the Slant community recommends Synwrite for most people. In the question“What are the best simple text editors for Windows?” Synwrite is ranked 19th while AkelPad is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Synwrite is:
Synwrite has a clean and beautiful UI.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Update module
Embedded module to check for updates of main program and all plugins.
Pro Sorting text according to selected block
Select block of text and sort all text according to this block
Pro Configurable keyboard shortcuts
You can configure own shortcuts for many actions
Pro Highlight each occurrence of selected sequence
Simply select any sequence of characters (even part of word of single character) and you will see highlighted all occurrences of this sequence in a file.
Pro Configurable syntax highlighting
Syntax highlighting defined in separate files, ability to create or edit any syntax.
Pro Clean interface
Synwrite has a clean and beautiful UI.
Pro Small size and portable
Synwrite's small size makes it very portable and usable even from a USB flash drive.
Pro Built-in FTP support
Built-in support for FTP allows the user to transfer and exchange files between different computers and accounts.
Cons
Con Windows only
It's not cross platform (but fully functional under Wine in Linux)
Con Windows only
Synwrite is only available for Windows and it's not cross-platform.