Good text editor?
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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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I'll second that. For most Q&D it's more than enough, and that's what the OP wanted.
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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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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 :-)
I second you. Notepad++ presented so much problems, then I switched to Notepad2 again. Clean, fast, and does the job!
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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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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 :-)
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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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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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
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).
Mark Wallace wrote:
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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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).
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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