BowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.

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
• Proper dark theme, including themed scrollbars
• Navigation hints in the vertical scrollbar
• Coloring of open tabs according to their path
• Rich tooltips which can show colors or numbers in different bases
• Extendable with plugins written in JScript or VBScript
• Allows custom color styles, i.e. user defined language coloring
• Auto-completion and code-snippets.