Notepad++ and programmer's editors

[KoosFourie]

I Agree, UltraEdit is by far the best editor available. It is the best piece of software I have ever spend some money on.

[Lost User]

its nice editor. i use it for editing environment and other such files.

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[LloydA111]

Perhaps this will help you decide? http://xkcd.com/378/[^] :-O

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[Drozzy]

Haha.. so true..

[Drozzy]

Sooner or later someone has to mention it: Vi Gvim (for windows): http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc In windows I set gVim as default thing to open .py, .html, .tex files, but use Notepad2 for my .txt. In linux it's vi or gvim for everything.

[Lost User]

Notepad2 is the best replacement ever for windows notepad. But, like you, it does not compare with NP++ But, I think we cant compare them, the target of use is very different, I like notepad2 to read logs, write text files, make some fast modification to source files, etc, but np++ comes better for scripting languages and files with a lot of lines of code. The plugin interface is very simple, I made a plugin for our source control system very easily, and there are a lot of usefulls plugins on the web, one that comes to my mind now is FunctionList, not very stable, but very very usefull, NppNetNote was another plugin that I found funny and usefull too. I've got both of them on my computer, and I am always using both

Saludos!! ____Juan

[cgh1977]

I have used EditPadPro for years. It compares nicely to UltraEdit, is $10 cheaper, and Jan has some other nice utilities that integrate with it. I particularly like his RegexBuddy... It makes debugging regular expressions a dream. Updates are free for life. :-D Check them out at http://www.jgsoft.com

[leonej_dt]

Personally, the only thing I find Notepad2 useful for is writing assembly. And even I, a confessed Real Programmer (in what is considered to be the bad sense of those words), don't write much assembly these days.

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[MattPenner]

+1 for PSPad. I used to use Notepad++ but I do a lot of regex and this support was really lacking in N++ at the time. Plus, sometimes I would do quick edits on websites when I didn't have my development computer. PSPad has a built-in FTP connection so that I can edit files directly on the server. This saved me from doing the whole dance of downloading a file in another program, editing it in N++, uploading it and checking the changes. The only thing I find lacking in PSPad is the syntax high-lighting isn't always true and it would be nice if it had better "Intellisense" type help. Sometimes it puts the closing brackets or parenthesis for me but I have to arrow over it. If I type it myself it adds an additional one rather than skipping over it like most advanced editors do.

[janus toendering]

Nobody has mentioned VIm and Emacs. Learning curves are quite a lot steeper but both editors are very powerful and customizable. They both have versions for Windows.

[Sterling Camden independent consultant]

I love that one. Of course, all joking aside, real programmers use vim.

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[Sterling Camden independent consultant]

I use the console version of vim, even on Windows. It's just snappier.

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[Adriaan Davel]

If it can do Intellisense it is a good editor :) I don't even ponder writing code in editors without Intellisense, for just editing text files I have found NP++ 100%

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[Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji]

I have used UltraEdit, Notepad++ and PSPad; and personally felt Notepad++ and PSPad good, cause they are free and open for plug-ins. Definitly the robustness of UltraEdit is comendable.

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[da808z]

TextPAD rocks! If you're going to do ASP.NET or ASP however, Visual Studio 2008 Express is free and does the tips while typing thing. I don't know any free/shareware stuff that does tips while typing for PHP etc. My workplace has DreamWeaver which can do it for html/css while typing, but it costs $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

[Flynn Arrowstarr Regular Schmoe]

I generally use PFE[^] for all-purpose file editing and reading. Of course, PFE hasn't been updated since 1999, but it works great even in Windows 7 64-bit. The main feature I like is it remembers where you left off in a file. Great for my game walkthrough files and general text editing (no syntax highlighting or Intellisense). For scripting (JavaScript/VBScript, PHP, etc.) I use SourceEdit[^]. No project management features or Intellisense, but lots of syntax highlighters are available. Both are free and work for everything I need. For anything heavy-duty, I use Visual Studio Express. :-\ Flynn

[Mike Winiberg]

I use SLickedit (in Brief mode, natch 8) ). I'm - very slowly - trying to fix the netbeans IDE so that it can be configured for Brief mode, and then I will probably go over to that entirely for Java/PHP/C++ on non-windows platforms, but stick with Slickedit, as Visual Studio's editor makes punched cards look efficient (and yes, I have used punched cards, and paper tape...)

[User 2966909]

I use ViM. It's simple, it's fast, it's scriptable, it's flexible, it's powerful, it's geek, it's cool, it's everywhere and it's charityware. The only problem is you need to learn a bit. But anything aside is just a toy.

[Sami P]

Try Sublime Text, you won't regret it. The way it handles multiple selections and the ease of creating plugins (through a simple python API) makes it the best tool in my setup, by far.

[Hardik Varma]

I've tried using both simultaneously in the past, and NP++ surpasses NP2 in every aspect for any task that I've thrown at the two of them (including reading plaintext files).