by on November 17, 2006 in Tools

Tired of Notepad? Want a better text editor?

I’ve spend alot of time playing with little bits of text – sometimes from files, sometimes copy and pasted from some other app. I quickly grew tired of the built-in Notepad and
all its limitations.  A few minutes of Googling found dozens (NoteTab, UltraEdit
($), NotePad2, NotePad++).  I like
both ’2′ and ‘++’ – both support syntax highlighting (for many languages), solid
support search & replace (including regex) … STOP reading go and play with
them.

In the end I choose NotePad++ because it supports having a number of files
open at once (via tabs).

Thanks to the PowerToys
weblog

BTW Programmers Notepad
might also be worth a look.

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3 Comments

  1. jeromeg November 25, 2006 at 4:20 am #

    I would also recommend EmEditor as a great text editor, lots of nifty features, embedded scripting and lots more, available for a small fee ($30 for the basic edition, $40 for the Pro version) at http://www.emeditor.com/
    I’m not affiliated with the author, I’m just a very satisfied user!

  2. Lisa Wall December 1, 2006 at 8:43 am #

    My personal favourite is TextPad (http://www.textpad.com/). There are many user-contributed add-ons for lots of languages, and the environemnt is highly customizable. I wrote Spending Profile (http://www.spendingprofile.com) entirely using TextPad.

  3. Mark Levison November 17, 2006 at 4:50 pm #

    Notepad replacements

    I’ve spent alot of the past few days tweaking little details in nmake files (used for post build events).I…

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