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Gene Wedge
I haven't done exhaustive research as has Dan and REMbranded, but I
have to swear by TextPad (DO NOT confuse it with notebad). It looks
like it was written by Unix guys who knew that other Unix guys would
need to work in Windows. As a Unix hacker of the 1980's using vi, the
worst part about getting used to Windows was the lack of a decent text
editor - a pretty basic necessity in my command-line/script/C++
oriented view of the world. In particlar I could not live without
regular expressions. We used CodeWright (sp?) for a while (some of my
colleagues still do), but it was a costly heavy-weight with all the
bells/whistles you could imagine. When TextPad came along, it was a
no brainer. Light-weight, just does what I expect it to and does it
well. Not exactly freeware, but it is one of the very few
"try-it-you'll-like-it-ware" programs that I have actually felt
compelled to pay for - I think it was $10 back then, now $27 for
versions 4.x - still a bargain if you edit text more that twice a
week.
See www.textpad.com
Regards,
Gene Wedge
have to swear by TextPad (DO NOT confuse it with notebad). It looks
like it was written by Unix guys who knew that other Unix guys would
need to work in Windows. As a Unix hacker of the 1980's using vi, the
worst part about getting used to Windows was the lack of a decent text
editor - a pretty basic necessity in my command-line/script/C++
oriented view of the world. In particlar I could not live without
regular expressions. We used CodeWright (sp?) for a while (some of my
colleagues still do), but it was a costly heavy-weight with all the
bells/whistles you could imagine. When TextPad came along, it was a
no brainer. Light-weight, just does what I expect it to and does it
well. Not exactly freeware, but it is one of the very few
"try-it-you'll-like-it-ware" programs that I have actually felt
compelled to pay for - I think it was $10 back then, now $27 for
versions 4.x - still a bargain if you edit text more that twice a
week.
See www.textpad.com
Regards,
Gene Wedge