Posted by member 45783 on 2003-10-23 04:20:43
I think this is very relevant due to the amount of text editing people here have to do, and when talking with people about these things, it seems that most still struggle with notepad or other very suboptimal editors. It would be good to raise some debate about this so, that people become aware of good editors and their properties.
Of course someone may also point me to an editor better than I'm currently using.
Ones that I've tried;
Editpad: Project control, extremely stable, very pleasing to use, customizable, syntax-highlighted, working wordwrap, charset conversions, tab visualization and much more. The pro version trial is free if you enjoy watching nag screens.
ConTEXT: As above but last time i checked lacked some of the features and especially wordwrap. Present version is told to sometimes chrash and kill files. Free.
PSPad: As Editpad but even more features (some for HTML-editing), text compare, extremely customizable. Wordwrap works unexpectedly and is generally broken. Free.
VIM & Emacs: Unix-originated editors, culminations of decades of developement. Absolutely everything, hard to use and learn when compared to native Windows editors. Suffer from maintaining direct compatiblity with their textmode counterparts.
Of these, Editpad is the best by a wide margin, but regrettably not completely free. People in other threads mentioned alphaedit and likewise editors, what's their deal?
Of course someone may also point me to an editor better than I'm currently using.
Ones that I've tried;
Editpad: Project control, extremely stable, very pleasing to use, customizable, syntax-highlighted, working wordwrap, charset conversions, tab visualization and much more. The pro version trial is free if you enjoy watching nag screens.
ConTEXT: As above but last time i checked lacked some of the features and especially wordwrap. Present version is told to sometimes chrash and kill files. Free.
PSPad: As Editpad but even more features (some for HTML-editing), text compare, extremely customizable. Wordwrap works unexpectedly and is generally broken. Free.
VIM & Emacs: Unix-originated editors, culminations of decades of developement. Absolutely everything, hard to use and learn when compared to native Windows editors. Suffer from maintaining direct compatiblity with their textmode counterparts.
Of these, Editpad is the best by a wide margin, but regrettably not completely free. People in other threads mentioned alphaedit and likewise editors, what's their deal?