I have been using a little program called Win32Pad along side Windows notepad.exe, my number one most opened app according to Windows XP’s Frequently Used Apps menu list, as a text editor.
Here are some of the great features that I cannot live without.
- Line Numbering — A must if you are a programmer. “Error on line 1563″. Try finding that using notepad.
- Position Indicators — More usefull information. What Column Am I On or How Long is My Selection Area
- Format Switching — It has the ability to change Unix style linefeeds to Windows style ones, and vice versa. It also supports Mac conversions.
- Tab Length Adjustment — I haven’t used this feature yet, but it is nice to have.
Another great tool is WinMerge. WinMerge is a GPL’d, visual diff application for Windows. This one I do not use as much, but it is still a helpful tool to have around.
Anyone have other notepad.exe replacements or simple tools like WinDiff which they like?
3 responses so far ↓
1 donnie // Jan 26, 2005 at 11:46 am
I was recently very annoyed with notepad’s inadequicies for both the format switching and the line numbering problems!
What do you use on linux? gpad? knotes? I can’t remember their exact names.
2 Marshall // Jan 26, 2005 at 3:08 pm
I havn’t used or installed a ‘K’ app in a very long time. I use mostly emacs, and sometimes gedit. I’ve lost my good .emacs config, so I have been slowly building it back up. One thing that I lost was the ability to select an area of text and press delete to delete that section. I’ve installed vim, but always forget to try it out. Emacs is ingrained into my subconscious, just like
lsorgrepis.3 donnie // Jan 27, 2005 at 12:03 pm
I use vim for all my console editing, but sometimes i’m browesing the filesystem with the graphical tools and always dissapointed when I double click on a text file and it brings up gedit or whatever. I wouldn’t want it to bring up emacs because it’s too heavy.