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  • L Lost User

    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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    L e g i 0 n
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    PSPad (http://www.pspad.com/) has syntax highlighting, HEX editor, file diff and lots more. Completely free.

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    • L Lost User

      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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      scoy6
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      I like ConText [^] It's not only useful for general text file editing but also does syntax coloring for a wide variety of languages. And the price is right.

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      • L Lost User

        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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        Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji
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        I use pspad http://www.snapfiles.com/dlnow/rdir.dll?id=106469[^]

        Jwalant Soneji (BE IT) Mobile: +91 9969059127 http://jnsoneji.spaces.live.com http://jnsoneji.blogspot.com

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        • Steve EcholsS Steve Echols

          I've been pretty happy with Notepad++[^]


          - S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!

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          Mark Puddephat
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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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          • E Ed Poore

            SciTE[^], beauty is it doesn't need to be installed, all config files are in the same directory.  There is even a single executable version so you only need one file.


            My Blog[^]

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            Ashley van Gerven
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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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            • A Ashley van Gerven

              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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              Ed Poore
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              No idea, I pronounce it skyté


              My Blog[^]

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              • Steve EcholsS Steve Echols

                I've been pretty happy with Notepad++[^]


                - S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!

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                Arjan Keene
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                Joining the queue for npp

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                • L Lost User

                  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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                  sshay
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                  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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                  • D DumpsterJuice

                    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....

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                    melchizedek
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                    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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                    • L LFirth

                      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/

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                      melchizedek
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                      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

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                      • S Super Lloyd

                        http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/[^]

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                        k bl
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                        I could not agree more with this guy. Notepad++ is the best!!!!

                        ASP.Net meets JQuery... Imagine the possibilities.

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