Notepad Replacement
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I know this has been posted a thousand times by different people, but I didn't need one at those times hence paid no attention. I want an editor that is reasonably light weight, runs on Vista and is capable of handling Unix text files. What recommendations do y'all have?
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
For the unix at heart, there is vim @ http://www.vim.org/[^] You've got a GUI (gvim) and if you install the command line extensions (an option to select during install), it will work in a command window as well. It's got syntax highlighting all set up, it's fast, and has all the power of vim, especially (for me) the regex engine. Not for everyone, though. Steep learning curve, but well worth it.
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Beautiful? Beautiful?! If you are looking for a text editor to look beautiful, your looking at the wrong thing. How does it handle very large text files... That's an important feature. How well does it do syntax highlighting on multiple formats... That's very important. Can you add support for your own formats, or make changes to existing formats without needing the source code? That's an extremely nice feature! And good to know SciTE has it. A text-editor should be all about simplicity, quick to use keyboard shortcuts and support for syntax highlighting without being slowed down at all. I can't say that I have tried any other of the replacements mentioned here, simply because I have been using SciTE for nearly 3 years now. There may be prettier and even better text editors recommended here, but saying that there is something wrong with SciTE is way off base. It does it's job, and does it very well :) If your looking for pretty, maybe get yourself the newest version of MS Office and use Word as your text editor... I assure you, it works as well, and looks very pretty while doing it ;P Sebastian Schocke Senior System Architect South Africa Professionals built the Titanic, Amateurs built the Ark. Think about it
I meant , When you open the tool, a new untitled file comes with a horizontal scrollbar ! why ? By beautiful i also meant simplicity. a notepad need to be just blank.
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Vista? Photoshop Preview Handler
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Scarey stuff... *bows down to superior editing prowess* I lasted all of 3 minutes in VI before a quick "ctrl+alt+F2 -> gedit filename" was called! lol.. nothing but respect for anybody willing to spend time learning it! :) Have you ever seen the VeloType keyboards? You type by "chording" keys, difficult to master, but if you spend the time and the punishment, you end up typing twice the top speed of a traditional typist!! Have a look! :)
Looks pretty cool. I can understand not wanting to learn VI. I did it as a Unix SysAdmin. No choice really. It was the editor that was on all the machines. As I did a great deal of contract work, and programs where hard to carry back then :), I learned VI. Used it for years. Now not using it is very frustrating for me. The QWERTY keyboard is one of those funny stories. The keys were intentionally laid out to slow a typist down as the original mechanical typewriters would jam if you type too fast. As the technology improved, they layout never changed. So even though we type on computers that no one could ever hope to out type we still use a layout designed to slow you down. An easier way to improve your typing speed might be to try switching to a Dvorak layout on your keyboard. I haven't tried it, but the fastest typist in the world set the record using one. http://web.syr.edu/~rcranger/blackburn.htm[^]
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I know this has been posted a thousand times by different people, but I didn't need one at those times hence paid no attention. I want an editor that is reasonably light weight, runs on Vista and is capable of handling Unix text files. What recommendations do y'all have?
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
PSPad (http://www.pspad.com/) has syntax highlighting, HEX editor, file diff and lots more. Completely free.
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I know this has been posted a thousand times by different people, but I didn't need one at those times hence paid no attention. I want an editor that is reasonably light weight, runs on Vista and is capable of handling Unix text files. What recommendations do y'all have?
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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I know this has been posted a thousand times by different people, but I didn't need one at those times hence paid no attention. I want an editor that is reasonably light weight, runs on Vista and is capable of handling Unix text files. What recommendations do y'all have?
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
I use pspad http://www.snapfiles.com/dlnow/rdir.dll?id=106469[^]
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I use Textpad to edit files on Windows. As for UNIX files, why not leave them on the UNIX box and edit with vi? If you have to ship a text file between UNIX and Windows, use ASCII mode with ftp. Then you can kiss your record end worries goodbye.
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BTW how do you pronounce Scite? Is it like "site" or "skyte"?
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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BTW how do you pronounce Scite? Is it like "site" or "skyte"?
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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Joining the queue for npp
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I know this has been posted a thousand times by different people, but I didn't need one at those times hence paid no attention. I want an editor that is reasonably light weight, runs on Vista and is capable of handling Unix text files. What recommendations do y'all have?
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
Visual C++ got a great editor, a lighter one is EditPlus: tabs, support known formats: c++ , perl, java scripts.. easy to define formats. When I use it, it was free. I've opened with it files on other UNIX machines, programing perl. I define a button to use for running the script. I like to say that there is nothing compare to VI, who need all the rest ;-) Anyway once in a while I check cnet, download.com, http://www.download.com/sort/3120-20_4-0-1-4.html?qt=text+editor&author=&titlename=&desc=&li=49&os=8525433&swlink=&gfiletype=[^] This search is for text editor which support vista, and they are for free and sorted by total downloads. So what do you use?
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Always a passionate subject with developers... I like UltraEdit (http://www.ultraedit.com/[^] Its not free, but then, neither are good developers... Along with the usual features of a professional editor, it has one that I find impossible to live without, and I have seen in no other editor. "Column mode" lets you select (Rubber Band style) inside the text, entire columns, where you can pick out code that you would normally have to wind up deleting the whole line. ...other than that, it has the usual great features, most of them have....
Crimson Editor has column mode. It is free as well. It's not been updated in awhile, but the source code is now available.
"You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion." -G.K. Chesterton
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I been using Crimson Editor for about 7 years!! Love the thing... think the guy stopped developing a couple of years ago, but made it open source when he stopped so anybody can do whatever with it. Nice, easy to use, text looks cool (syntax highlighting), customisable (macros), handles unix & windows text files, and tabbed interface for multiple files. Infact, it's on my swiss-army-usb-stick, since I can't carry visual studio/eclipse with me always! :) Tiny footprint and not resource heavy either. Even though it hasn't been updated recently - still beats the pants of alot of the editors available at the minute. http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
OK, I already posted this, but I'll put in another vote for Crimson Editor.
"You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion." -G.K. Chesterton
