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joebee
Any suggestions for a good text file editor, to clean up text files,TIA
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Shel
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REM
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "clean up text files."
If you mean this in respect to the looks, or the format of a bunch of text files
I have a small utility that will reformat all text files in a directory to
whatever specs you want.
For instance I like my text files to have a 4 space margin on both sides, a 4
space paragraph indention and 76 characters per line. This program rewrites each
file as I like and removes any control codes or high ascii characters in the new
file created. Paragraphs are necessary however, in order for this program to
work right. It can format thousands of files identically with the included batch
file, just select your preferences and sit back.
http://www.woundedmoon.org/
If you would like to see the capabilities of some of the editors and word
processors I reviewed check here:
http://www.woundedmoon.org/PL/TextEditorReview.php?sortby=1
It really depends on what you are looking for, a small, no install editor with
no registry entries, or something a little heavier.
I personally prefer Crypt Edit and Atlantis Nova, which have RTF. They are not
strictly text editors, but both are nice and handy to have around:
Atlantis nova:
http://www.rssol.com/en/html/download/nova.htm
Crypt Edit (lower portion of this page):
http://ps.yaroslavl.ru/downloads.shtml
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Bob Adkins
Hey Rem, did you ever check out BDV Notepad?
It has a some interesting features, and is very solid. I really like the
"sticky" search and/or replace bars. Watch for some cool features in
upcoming releases.
http://www.badevlad.hotmail.ru/new/downloads_en.htm
Bob
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Andrew C Cooper
I am looking for one with a spell checker. Any ideas?
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REM
That's a new one one me. I'll take it for a spin!
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Olaf Greck
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Frank Delamarre
vandals said:
It says Shareware 1,33Mb
Off topic here!
Frank
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Bob Adkins
Olaf,
I agree. PSPad is the best free Rich text editor that comes with spell
check. If PSPad were to grow a little and become a full word processor, it
would encroach on ABI Word's turf, which does have spell check.
Bob
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Frank Delamarre
Bob Adkins said:
PSPad an RTF editor?
Why should a text editor become a word processor?
Frank?
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Chaos Master
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Bob Adkins
It shouldn't. In the case of PSPad (and Atlantis Nova), they don't have to
become anything. They already are.
Editors with heavy features like PSPad and Atlantis Nova are really "in
between" text editors and light word processors. The distinction becomes
blurred when the entire Rich text feature set is utilized.
Bob
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REM
It shouldn't. In the case of PSPad (and Atlantis Nova), they don't have to
become anything. They already are.
True. As far as straight text editing goes EDIT.COM works
fine in most situations.
These editors have evolved to the writers dreams to handle a
great deal more than straight text files. They probably work
better than EDIT.COM, and can handle most anything that
comes at you in the future. You might think you will never
edit RTF, or need syntax highlighting to edit a html file.
If you do though, you already have a capable program on
board to do so.
If you know you only want a text editor:
http://www.woundedmoon.org/PL/TextEditorReview.php?sortby=EditorType
Look at the NotePad "type" editors. Many have no install or
registry entries. For a better lack of distinction, these
lack RTF, where word processors can handle RTF and other
features, such as lists.
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Bob Adkins
So REM, what do you think of BDV Notepad? Like those sticky options?
Bob
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REM
I got the program quick enough, nice and small (274k dl). I
bogged down on other fronts and that's as far as I made it.
There is no time like the present!...
Very nice and clean interface! Opens instantly! It looks
mighty good to me. I'll try it out deeper and add it to the
review page. It says it works on files of unlimited size.
Cool!
Note: My first dl was corrupted. It took for tries to get
the last bytes and an uncorrupted file:
"BDV Notepad
It is comfortable text editor, which can replace a standard
Windows Notepad. In this program are combined extended
functionality, convenient habitual interface, flexible
adjustment and all of this is absolutely free-of-charge."
http://www.badevlad.hotmail.ru/new/notepad_en.htm
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Bob Adkins
HA! Those Babelfish Russian-English translations don't come out sounding
quite right.
Watch out for future releases. The author is supposed to add some cool
features without bloating it up.
Bob
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Susan Bugher
Frank said:
Hi Frank,
There is a LFW version on the site - go here:
http://www.gridinsoft.com/notepad.php
Download Now
Freeware 1,56Mb
http://www.gridinsoft.com/downloads/gsnote.zip
1605 KB
- can't tell the version number but found this info at another site that
points to the same download:
http://www.dissoft.com/_development_17.html
<q>
GridinSoft Notepad
Highlighting more than 50 formats of files! (HTML, ASP, PHP, Perl,
C/C++..) Build-in Spell Checker, UNICODE, Print preview, Bookmarks,
export the text with highlighting to RTF, HTML and LaTeX format, support
many character sets, evaluate math expressions, regular expressions, the
adjusted interface and many other things...
size: 1606 Kbytes
OS: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinXP, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, Windows2003
Freeware
Released
11 Jun. 2004
</q>
Susan