Windows Based Text Editor?
 

Any freeware out there that is better than notepad?

Not completely free, but very cheap...
 

EMACS. It's not so much an editor as it is a religion.

Download it here, if you dare :D

Wordpad is part of Windows
Crimson Editor - I like it for editing program languages

I'll add my support to Text Pad. It's a nice piece of software.

I'm still using Notemaid. I don't think it has been updated in 10 years, but so what- it's a clean text editor, doesn't need bells and whistles.

If you are a power user - jEdit! www.jEdit.org

I love TextPad. It's not free, but there's a full featured demo that nags you to register. It costs about $30, and it's worth every penny.

EditPlus is my recommendation
 

Supports extension, HTML, built-in brower and it is very fast. Small footprint. I use it everyday. It isn't free, the cost is $30.

www.editplus.com

Another vote for TextPad ^

For anything remotely complex (as a person that does some system scripting), I like the syntax hiliting from SciTE.

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

count me in for Text Pad as well! ^

Another vote for TextPad
 

Been a TextPad user almost from the start. Well worth the $30.^

try http://www.openoffice.org/

open office. has ALL the functions of microsoft office(word, powerpoint, excel....). and its free.

Textpad ^
Been trialling it for a few years now and like what I have seen so far :D

My favorite is UltraEdit (with the UltraCompare) option, but at $50, it is overkill if you are not a programmer.

My favorite freeware one is Notepad++. It's missing a few features that UltraEdit has, like sort and compare, but it has the basics, such as syntax highlighting for common programming languages, and the price is right.

Check out Notepad++ and Notepad2. Both free, both fast & powerful. Notepad++ is the more feature rich of the pair, and Notepad2 smaller and faster.

Notepad++ does everything this hardware engineer needs for software coding (ick).

My preference is for Notepad++ as well -- I do a lot of work in XML files and it's a lifesaver.

Steve

another vote for notepad++

Bingo.

Jed. Not for the faint of heart, but if you are switching between wintel and 'nix environments on a regular basis, it helps.

It can also be made to do just about anything you want it to do, particularly in terms of syntax sensitivity behavior.

Another vote for Emacs. Or, on the other side of the fence, GVim.

I prefer EditPlus but also use TextPad and UltraEdit.

I'm amazed none of the ubergeeks here have said that text editors are for kids... real programmers use copy con filename from the command prompt to edit text.

Real programmers use ed, the Standard Text Editor.

EMACS = Eighty Megs And Constantly Swapping
EMACS = EgoManiacs Addicted to Control Sequences


:D

*gag* *hack* If you want a REAL text editor use gVIM. :D

wow, no votes for edlin :(

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I wish someone could do a Windows version of TextMate...

I've had good luck with VEDIT, though it's not free. It handles text files of any size or line length, and edits binary files too.

For work I have to handle some text files with very long lines (as much as 5K), and most text editors will wrap them at some point like 512 or 1024.

I use Programmer's File Editor. It is no longer in development, but Version 1.01 works great. It's free, small footprint and no install necessary. Only drawback is the lack of a wraparound search function.

get it here
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/steveb...e/pfefiles.htm

Vi for windows? If you really dare. EMACS is a piece of cake comparatively...but I cheated, I learned WEMACS.

http://www.softwareonline.org/products.html

Well, you do have gvim or gnu emacs for windows. Both work well enough. Both are equally versatile. I'll leave it a that without starting a vi vs emacs war.

Aww, how often to Travel Technology threads make it over to OMNI?

On the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed.
Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

"Ed is the standard text editor."

Another vote for textpad. I use it to view/edit 200MB text files, and it works like a charm. Best thing, you can try it for free for quite a while.

I downloaded and installed Crimson editor and it's pretty damn good! ^
I'm surprised its not used as much as the others mentioned.

Keep in mind that WordPad is a basic word processor, not a text editor. Big difference if a text editor is what you need.

Personally I went from WinEdit to Crimson Editor to Notepad++, the last of which I quite like. Handles syntax colouring for one language embedded in another (i.e. Javascript embedded in an .htm file.) - and Notpad++ is free which is great (so is Crimson Editor.)

I don't imagine there's much point in selling a paid text editor any more. There are too many good free ones.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

Notepad++ is great for the price, and ends up on most of the customer systems I touch, but has a couple of annoying quirks, and is missing some functionality that you can get from the paid programs. The quirks that really annoy me:
1) The find function does not have an option to automatically dismiss the find dialog on the first match, so that you can just use F3 for further matches.
2) If you have multiple files open, and file change notfication set, when you agree to load a changed file, it makes that the active file, and starts a text select with the anchor at some random spot on the page. This is really bad if one of the files that you have open is being changed occasionally by another program (like a log file).
3) Default syntax highlighting changes not just color, but font, (to a less readable one) for comments in Perl and HTML.

Some missing features (compared to my fav, Ultraedit):
1) Limited sorting, no duplicate removal, no numeric, can't define multiple key columns.
2) no compare
3) no column editing mode
4) help is only available online, not much use on a plane.
5) doesn't automatically select hex edit mode for binary files.
6) No menu functions to trim all trailing spaces or convert all leading spaces to tabs. Could probably be done with a macro, but that is a hassle for a simple function.
7) No built in save to/open from FTP.