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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  • http://www.jerhome.net jeromeg

    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!

  • http://www.spendingprofile.com Lisa Wall

    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.

  • http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/mlevison/archive/2005/01/28/48893.aspx Mark Levison

    Notepad replacements

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