Good Notepad replacement
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Shocking as it seems, I still use Notepad from time to time to open the occasional text or other file. It is quite handy from the command line as I can always remember "notepad". Of course, it is quite limited, and screws up royally when viewing files of Unix origin. So does anyone know of or have used a good Notepad replacement? I need something that: :bob: Is free. :bob: Can be run from the command line. :bob: Loads quickly. :bob: Can view text files in a variety of formats (CR/LF or just CR, Unicode, Ascii, etc.) An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
I have tried so many and none have ever really stuck, I still use notepad.exe. Still, Notepad RE here on CP is very good. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan wrote: "I always knew that somewhere deep inside that likable, Save the Whales kinda guy there lurked the heart of a troublemaker..." Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Shocking as it seems, I still use Notepad from time to time to open the occasional text or other file. It is quite handy from the command line as I can always remember "notepad". Of course, it is quite limited, and screws up royally when viewing files of Unix origin. So does anyone know of or have used a good Notepad replacement? I need something that: :bob: Is free. :bob: Can be run from the command line. :bob: Loads quickly. :bob: Can view text files in a variety of formats (CR/LF or just CR, Unicode, Ascii, etc.) An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Notepad2 is really good. :) If you rename it to notepad and copy it over the existing notepad.exe files (do a search on your hard drive and include hidden and system folders), then you can just type in notepad like you used to. :)
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Shocking as it seems, I still use Notepad from time to time to open the occasional text or other file. It is quite handy from the command line as I can always remember "notepad". Of course, it is quite limited, and screws up royally when viewing files of Unix origin. So does anyone know of or have used a good Notepad replacement? I need something that: :bob: Is free. :bob: Can be run from the command line. :bob: Loads quickly. :bob: Can view text files in a variety of formats (CR/LF or just CR, Unicode, Ascii, etc.) An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Well, not exactly free but very cheap and by far the best editor around is Textpad (http://www.textpad.com). I use it since years for editing almost any textbased file (since it supports syntax highlighting for just about anything you can imagine). Really, really happy user here... :-O btw, sorry for not conforming to clickety policy. Happy user of Firefox as well. Matthias
If eell I ,nust draw to your atenttion to het fakt that I can splel perfrectly well - i;ts my typeying that sukcs. (Lounge/David Wulff)
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Shocking as it seems, I still use Notepad from time to time to open the occasional text or other file. It is quite handy from the command line as I can always remember "notepad". Of course, it is quite limited, and screws up royally when viewing files of Unix origin. So does anyone know of or have used a good Notepad replacement? I need something that: :bob: Is free. :bob: Can be run from the command line. :bob: Loads quickly. :bob: Can view text files in a variety of formats (CR/LF or just CR, Unicode, Ascii, etc.) An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
I use gvim a lot, however it is hardly a replacement for Notepad. Besides, it is hard to learn if you have never worked with a vi-like editor (I did at the University and that's why gvim works for me).
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Notepad2 is really good. :) If you rename it to notepad and copy it over the existing notepad.exe files (do a search on your hard drive and include hidden and system folders), then you can just type in notepad like you used to. :)
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David Stone wrote: Notepad2 is really good. I second that. I replaced Notepad with this tool and never looked back. I even integrated the tool into the shell.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Notepad2] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Notepad2\command] @="\"C:\\Windows\\Notepad2.exe\" \"%1\""
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I use gvim a lot, however it is hardly a replacement for Notepad. Besides, it is hard to learn if you have never worked with a vi-like editor (I did at the University and that's why gvim works for me).
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Notepad2 is really good. :) If you rename it to notepad and copy it over the existing notepad.exe files (do a search on your hard drive and include hidden and system folders), then you can just type in notepad like you used to. :)
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I'm playing around with Notepad2 as we speak - and it looks promising. At the very least, it opens up my Unix files and doesn't choke on the format difference like Notepad does. :) An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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Well, not exactly free but very cheap and by far the best editor around is Textpad (http://www.textpad.com). I use it since years for editing almost any textbased file (since it supports syntax highlighting for just about anything you can imagine). Really, really happy user here... :-O btw, sorry for not conforming to clickety policy. Happy user of Firefox as well. Matthias
If eell I ,nust draw to your atenttion to het fakt that I can splel perfrectly well - i;ts my typeying that sukcs. (Lounge/David Wulff)
I have used TextPad - it works well, but it is almost too much for a Notepad replacement. It's kind of halfway between an editor and an IDE. I'd rather just have a good editor and have a good IDE. :) An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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Well, not exactly free but very cheap and by far the best editor around is Textpad (http://www.textpad.com). I use it since years for editing almost any textbased file (since it supports syntax highlighting for just about anything you can imagine). Really, really happy user here... :-O btw, sorry for not conforming to clickety policy. Happy user of Firefox as well. Matthias
If eell I ,nust draw to your atenttion to het fakt that I can splel perfrectly well - i;ts my typeying that sukcs. (Lounge/David Wulff)
sorry for not conforming to clickety policy. Happy user of Firefox as well. So? You can still type can't you? ;P I use FireFox and I still manage to provide clicketies. (Minus the one that opens in new windows. I hate that.)
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sorry for not conforming to clickety policy. Happy user of Firefox as well. So? You can still type can't you? ;P I use FireFox and I still manage to provide clicketies. (Minus the one that opens in new windows. I hate that.)
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>Minus the one that opens in new windows. I hate that Insert Balky Bartokomas, from Mepos, Dance Of Joy here. You just got ummm a lifetimes free subscription to Posts From Paul for that. :-D regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan wrote: "I always knew that somewhere deep inside that likable, Save the Whales kinda guy there lurked the heart of a troublemaker..." Crikey! ain't life grand?
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>Minus the one that opens in new windows. I hate that Insert Balky Bartokomas, from Mepos, Dance Of Joy here. You just got ummm a lifetimes free subscription to Posts From Paul for that. :-D regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan wrote: "I always knew that somewhere deep inside that likable, Save the Whales kinda guy there lurked the heart of a troublemaker..." Crikey! ain't life grand?
Hehe. :) That's nice and all, Paul. But what I really want is for the whole world to stop using target="_blank" ;P Thankfully, I have this handy-dandy single-window extension for FireFox that catches all those "new window" links and shoves them into a new tab instead. That, and I've trained myself to middle-click on links. :)
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Hehe. :) That's nice and all, Paul. But what I really want is for the whole world to stop using target="_blank" ;P Thankfully, I have this handy-dandy single-window extension for FireFox that catches all those "new window" links and shoves them into a new tab instead. That, and I've trained myself to middle-click on links. :)
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>But what I really want is for the whole world to stop using target="_blank" Me too David, me too. *sigh* As for FF, indeed, handy extensions. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan wrote: "I always knew that somewhere deep inside that likable, Save the Whales kinda guy there lurked the heart of a troublemaker..." Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Shocking as it seems, I still use Notepad from time to time to open the occasional text or other file. It is quite handy from the command line as I can always remember "notepad". Of course, it is quite limited, and screws up royally when viewing files of Unix origin. So does anyone know of or have used a good Notepad replacement? I need something that: :bob: Is free. :bob: Can be run from the command line. :bob: Loads quickly. :bob: Can view text files in a variety of formats (CR/LF or just CR, Unicode, Ascii, etc.) An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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Shocking as it seems, I still use Notepad from time to time to open the occasional text or other file. It is quite handy from the command line as I can always remember "notepad". Of course, it is quite limited, and screws up royally when viewing files of Unix origin. So does anyone know of or have used a good Notepad replacement? I need something that: :bob: Is free. :bob: Can be run from the command line. :bob: Loads quickly. :bob: Can view text files in a variety of formats (CR/LF or just CR, Unicode, Ascii, etc.) An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.