Good text editor?

David Veeneman

I've used TextPad vor years as a quick-and-dirty text editor (I use VS 2005 as my main IDE). But the new version of TextPad is buggy, so I'm looking around. Can anyone recommend a simple text editor with good syntax highlighting? Thanks.

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UltraEdit[^]

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EditPlus is cool

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Mike Dimmick

I've not had a problem with version 5, but you could always go back to the latest release of version 4. 4.7.3 is still available for download. The main thing that annoys me is that the search results pane (for Find In Files) is now a toolbar, not a separate document. That means you can't easily see a lot of results and easily switch to the document you were working on before. I've resized the toolbar to be practically the whole window, and auto-hidden.

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Scott Dorman

UltraEdit and EditPlus are both good, but I still prefer TextPad. If 5.0 is too buggy for you right now, why not drop back to 4.7.3?

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Abu Mami

Man I how I miss Brief - the best text editor there ever was.

Chris Losinger

iI'll always love viEsc:w!q

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Virtual Coder

PSPad[^] - the universal freeware editor

Dan Neely

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David Veeneman

A bunch of little things, like the window not remembering its size and location, and the search results that you mentioned. I think I am going to fall back to 4.7.3. Can you recommend a good XML syn file for TextPad? The ones on the site aren't very impressive. Thanks

David Veeneman www.veeneman.com

Chris Losinger

ah, but when i was in college, there was no Visual Studio, and no Windows. my choices for editor were vi or emacs. and i got pretty good with vi.

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Scott Dorman

It sounds like you've tried the ones from TextPad? TextPad Syntax Definition Files U-Z[^] I don't know of any others, but you could always make your own. Are you looking for a general XML syntax?

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Lost User

Emeditor[^] is quite nice.

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MoustafaS

You shall try Notepad++

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Douglas Troy

I've never had a problem with TextPad and have used it for many things, but here are some suggestions: Editor(s) NotePad ++[^] JEdit[^] Xml Editor XML Notepad 2007[^]

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Kevin Darty

I've tried TextPad, UltraEdit and Notepad++ and the one I finally settled on is Notepad2. Like most of the other editors out there it does Syntax Schemes and RegEx Find/Replace but the one thing I like the most from Notepad2 is that its RegEx Find/Replace is user-friendly. The Syntax Schemes are great as well. I use it for HTML, XML, CSS and building SQL Scripts. A lot of times I get data that may be in a Word document and I need to build SQL Scripts using that data. The RegEx Find and Replace in Notepad2 works great for tasks like that. Give it a shot :-)

Ray Kinsella

Notepad 2[^]

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Kevin Darty

Make sure to get the version of Notepad2 that is on SourceForge. The version on Flow's Freeware (name?) is abandonware (last I checked) and very outdated.

Brady Kelly

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toxcct

I second that... i've been using UE for ages nown and it fits my needs alwost everytime... file comparison, hexadecimal editor, syntax colorizer, possibility of adding, editing, removing the languages recognized, 2 regular expression parsers, customizable toolbars, listing functions, etc...

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