Good text editor?

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

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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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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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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 :-)

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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 is abandonware (last I checked) and very outdated.

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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Brady Kelly

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Brady Kelly

I'll second that. For most Q&D it's more than enough, and that's what the OP wanted.

Shog9 0

SciTE[^]. Great highlighting, fast, doesn't piss me off with a brain-dead UI that wants to be an IDE.

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Clickok

I second you. Notepad++ presented so much problems, then I switched to Notepad2 again. Clean, fast, and does the job!

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Yes. I :love: UE.

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TheIdleProgrammer

I second that. It's very quick but still has lots of features on offer, and it's free!

David Veeneman

I'm going to give that a try. Very simple, very clean. Looks like it does one thing well.

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Bassam Abdul Baki

I :love: UE 2. ;)

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DavidNohejl

Colleague uses this one, and it serves him well. I don t because I don't like to leave Visual Studio :)

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Mark_Wallace

David Veeneman wrote:

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.

I rolled back to v4.7.3. It was the fixed-toolbar cock-up that did it for me. I found where that error was (tucked away in a pair of XML files, rather than in the registry), but without knowing exactly what the various elements in the XML sheets represented, I couldn't do anything about it. I'm perfectly happy with 4.7.3, though, so no problem.

David Veeneman wrote:

Can anyone recommend a simple text editor with good syntax highlighting?

PsPad[^] is pretty good; it and SuperEdi[^] are the only ones I've found with decent XML highlighting (which I need far more than I'd like). SuperEdi also allows you to use TextPad .syn files, which is handy -- better the colours you know. There's a bunch of freeware text editors on nonags[^]. (if you're anything like me, you'll end up installing a dozen, forgetting what they're called, and never finding them again).