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Re: Peoples at CP: Try other editors than Notepad

Machaira11-Jun-07 2:13

Machaira

11-Jun-07 2:13

If I'm using Notepad it's because I don't need any cool and handy features. Wink | ;)

Re: Peoples at CP: Try other editors than Notepad

maz233111-Jun-07 16:25

maz2331

11-Jun-07 16:25

I do... it's called "vi" when on a *Nix box, or either Wordpad or MS Word when on Windows machines.

Re: Peoples at CP: Try other editors than Notepad

KarstenK11-Jun-07 20:21

KarstenK

11-Jun-07 20:21

one of my collegues wants me to use gVim. Unsure | :~

Greetings from Germany

Re: Peoples at CP: Try other editors than Notepad

Paul Watson12-Jun-07 1:17

Paul Watson

12-Jun-07 1:17

You use Wordpad and MS Word as text editors? God forbid you come near any code with MS Word. It bastardises everything.

regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

HomeSite

Oscillator10-Jun-07 21:28

Oscillator

10-Jun-07 21:28

I use HomeSite (Allaire, Macromedia, Adobe, whatever)

The find and replace functions are the best I've ever seen in an editor.

The Rubix cube is not a toy... it's a vehicle to interdimensional enlightenment.

Using EditPlus (ES-Computing)

Senthil Kumar U10-Jun-07 20:22

Senthil Kumar U

10-Jun-07 20:22

Using EditPlus (ES-Computing) for 5 years...

Comfortable... edit anything (JAVA, PHP, C++, HTML, XML)...

Find and Replace in a large file is several times faster than NotePad...

Configure the Editor to call javac & java... capture the output and put it in the native Output Window... (obviously debug support is not present)

EmEditor!

Johann Gerell10-Jun-07 19:41

Johann Gerell

10-Jun-07 19:41

EmEditor[^] is great!

It's quick, capable and affordable.

--
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time - Bertrand Russel

Re: EmEditor!

justin10810-Jun-07 21:42

justin108

10-Jun-07 21:42

So Do I.

Re: EmEditor!

User 842011-Jun-07 6:31

User 8420

11-Jun-07 6:31

Ditto

TextPad

aks.10-Jun-07 19:01

aks.

10-Jun-07 19:01

I think textpad is a good editor tool

AJay

Re: TextPad

Programm3r10-Jun-07 20:42

Programm3r

10-Jun-07 20:42

I second that Jig | [Dance]

The only programmers that are better than C programmers are those who code in 1's and 0's..... Smile | :)

Programm3r
My Blog: ^_^

Textpad

SKRIMPS10-Jun-07 18:47

SKRIMPS

10-Jun-07 18:47

I've been using Text Pad for many many years... I don't even see it mentioned, has it fallen out that much??

Re: Textpad

jakomax11-Jun-07 1:38

jakomax

11-Jun-07 1:38

I agree with you.
Maybe TextPad staff Dead | X|

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If you can't beat them... just run!

Notepad? Really?

Shog⁹10-Jun-07 18:27

Shog⁹

10-Jun-07 18:27

Really?
What makes up the unfavored list? EDLIN? copy con? Unsure | :~

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...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...

Re: Notepad? Really?

KarstenK10-Jun-07 21:35

KarstenK

10-Jun-07 21:35

It is shocking at the people like using Notepad. Mad | :mad:

My favourite ist Ultraedit it is syntax highlighting for different languages, a nice diff tool (BUT WinMerg rocks!!! Cool | :cool:

)

This really enhances working productivity and makes text editing fun. Big Grin | :-D

Greetings from Germany

Re: Notepad? Really?

akyriako7810-Jun-07 22:16

akyriako78

10-Jun-07 22:16

KarstenK wrote:
It is shocking at the people like using Notepad.

One answer : KISS

Re: Notepad? Really?

KarstenK10-Jun-07 22:37

KarstenK

10-Jun-07 22:37

Another option ist NOT to turn on the PC Laugh | :laugh:

Greetings from Germany

Re: Notepad? Really?

Paul Watson11-Jun-07 1:16

Paul Watson

11-Jun-07 1:16

Notepad is on every Windows PC out there. It works with minimal resources and is really useful when at a client's office. I wouldn't use it everyday for coding but it is a useful text editor to know.

regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

Re: Notepad? Really?

KarstenK11-Jun-07 1:41

KarstenK

11-Jun-07 1:41

You are right, for working on other PCs is it useful to have notepad on board. But if you got to really work with text files you better use a more powerful program.

Greetings from Germany

Re: Notepad? Really?

jakomax11-Jun-07 1:44

jakomax

11-Jun-07 1:44

...."to know"?

....wow, interesting.... but to know WHAT? Unsure | :~

I find more complexity in this form where I'm typing now.... Laugh | :laugh:

Re: Notepad? Really?

Paul Watson11-Jun-07 1:51

Paul Watson

11-Jun-07 1:51

Good luck when you have to open a 10megabyte XML file in Notepad in front of a client in their offices. You need to know a few tricks for that.

regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

Re: Notepad? Really?

Shog⁹11-Jun-07 5:02

Shog⁹

11-Jun-07 5:02

Yeah, that's sorta the answer i was expecting to see here somewhere. But, IMHO, it's like the appliance repair guy showing up and asking you for a spoon to use as a screwdriver. Sure, it's commonly available and you can make it work in a pinch, but it's much, much better to carry your own toolkit and just avoid pinches...

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...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...

Re: Notepad? Really?

Paul Watson11-Jun-07 5:13

Paul Watson

11-Jun-07 5:13

I don't think that analogy works too well. If I brought my favourite bit of software along to a client's office (say, Visual Studio) and said "I have to install this 3 gigabyte app to fix your XML file" I don't think they'd be too chuffed. Plus it would probably break most software licenses.

Bringing along your own laptop with VS installed is good but I've been there and not been able to connect to their network (for security reasons) or get the file off their computer (for security reasons.)

In one case I ended up learning on the spot how to use cs.exe to recompile a C# app. that I had to use Notepad to edit. They wouldn't let me hook up my laptop (for security reasons.) Frustrating though strangely educational Big Grin | :-D

regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

Re: Notepad? Really?

Shog⁹11-Jun-07 5:56

Shog⁹

11-Jun-07 5:56

Paul Watson wrote:
If I brought my favourite bit of software along to a client's office (say, Visual Studio) and said "I have to install this 3 gigabyte app to fix your XML file" I don't think they'd be too chuffed.

VS isn't a screwdriver^*. To use my repair guy analogy, installing VS would be like dragging in a lathe or maybe a whole CNC machine. Utterly ridiculous. Doesn't stop you from keeping a little text editor like SciTE on a thumb drive where you can use it without installing anything.

The security issue is a real concern, and yeah, sooner or later you will have to get by without proper tools. But that should be the exception, not the norm.

^{*though chugging a screwdriver can be helpful when using it...}

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...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...

Re: Notepad? Really?

Paul Watson11-Jun-07 6:06

Paul Watson

11-Jun-07 6:06

Shog9 wrote:
But that should be the exception, not the norm.

It should be but most of the corporates I've been to won't let an external contractor plug anything into their network without network admin approving it in advance. They won't let their own users plug their own USB drives in either (data theft, viruses etc.)

And I wouldn't call scite a proper tool Wink | ;)

regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

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Option	Votes	%
EditPro	34	2.07
emacs and related	28	1.71
Notepad	431	26.30
Notepad++	376	22.94
Notepad2	69	4.21
SciTe	45	2.75
SlickEdit	23	1.40
vi and related	89	5.43
UltraEdit	275	16.78
Wordpad	66	4.03
Total	1,639	100%

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