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  • C 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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    Brady Kelly
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    • B Bassam Abdul Baki

      UltraEdit[^]


      "I know which side I want to win regardless of how many wrongs they have to commit to achieve it." - Stan Shannon Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM

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      toxcct
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      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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      • R Ray Kinsella

        Notepad 2[^]

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

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        • D 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.

          David Veeneman www.veeneman.com

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          Shog9 0
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          SciTE[^]. Great highlighting, fast, doesn't piss me off with a brain-dead UI that wants to be an IDE.

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


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            • B Bassam Abdul Baki

              UltraEdit[^]


              "I know which side I want to win regardless of how many wrongs they have to commit to achieve it." - Stan Shannon Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM

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              Jon Sagara
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              Yes. I :love: UE.

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

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                It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.

                --Raymond Chen on MSDN

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

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

                  David Veeneman www.veeneman.com

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                  • J Jon Sagara

                    Yes. I :love: UE.

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                    Bassam Abdul Baki
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                    I :love: UE 2. ;)


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                    • V Virtual Coder

                      PSPad[^] - the universal freeware editor

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


                      "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. " - Morpheus "Real men use mspaint for writing code and notepad for designing graphics." - Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

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                      • D 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.

                        David Veeneman www.veeneman.com

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                        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).

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                          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).

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                          It was the fixed-toolbar c***-up that did it for me.

                          Hey! C.o.c.k-up ain't swearing! I'm being repressed!

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                          • B Bassam Abdul Baki

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                            "I know which side I want to win regardless of how many wrongs they have to commit to achieve it." - Stan Shannon Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM

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                            Sebastian Schneider
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                            UltraEdit for the Win. I use it at work, and I just plain love it. At home, I use JEdit (which I also have on my USB Stick).

                            Cheers, Sebastian -- Ceterum censeo, borlandem esse delendam.

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                            • D 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.

                              David Veeneman www.veeneman.com

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                              reshi999
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                              Notepad++ - Good code editor, nice features (code syntax, brace\indent checking, etc), open source

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