I like Wordpad a lot, but it won’t work with large files.
And I liked DOS edit a lot (especially the way you could select things to cut and paste by columns as well as rows), but it doesn’t work with the regular cut and paste system, nor long file names.
Work is overkill and takes too long to load on my machine.
What else are people using for quick simple stuff?
I like Notepad a lot, but it won’t work with large files.
And I liked DOS edit a lot (especially the way you could select things to cut and paste by columns as well as rows), but it doesn’t work with the regular cut and paste system, nor long file names.
Word and Wordpad are overkill and take too long to load on my machine.
What else are people using for quick simple stuff?
I use EditPad for all of my text files. Awesome, simple program.
I don’t know exactly what you’re looking for so I don’t know if this will work or not, but I use Multi-Edit from American Cybernetics.
I’ve used EditPlus for ASP programming, and it seems to work equally well for plain text files on the large size. HTH.
Thanks people. I should be able to find one or more of those at Tucows downloads.
I just realized those were links, they are almost the same color as the text, but not quite.
Even better! Thanks for taking the trouble to look those up.
vi
I’m a big fan of Textpad. http://www.textpad.com
I’m a big fan of NoteTab.
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[li]Multiple documents open, with tabs to select between them.[/li][li]Use regular expressions in search, as well as find-and-replace operations.[/li][li]Comes with clip libraries for editing certain kinds of files. For example, with the HTML clip open, I can highlight a phrase, type [Esc]BOLD[Enter], and it surrounds my text with <B></B>. All HTML tags are there.[/li][li]A button on the toolbar views the current document in a web browser (again, nice for editing HTML).[/li][/ul]
And many, many more. The full version is only $10 - it’s the best $10 I ever spent.
LOL S-Terry Dan! Ok, got my new text editor vi, so first i install linux… 
-Dani
In my development team we kind’a like PFE. It was written by a student but works pretty well. You can get it (free) from http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe
The best small-memory-usage Notepad replacement I have found is “metapad”.
Try the latest beta from http://welcome.to/metapad/ .
It’s free and packs an amazing range of features into such a small .exe size.
Only takes one file at a time but that file can be HUGE, no problems.
If you rename metapad.exe to notepad.exe and copy it into your Windows folder
you have no hassles with file associations etc.
For a fully comprehensive text editor try UltraEdit.
It can even edit hex files properly.
You may never use all it’s features but they are there if you need them.
Shareware 45 days trial then US$30 to register.
http://www.ultraedit.com
Sick, sick man…
Okay, so I’ll admit my editor-of-choice, emacs, is a bit overkill (the name is an acronym for escape, meta, alt, control, shift :D), but come on. For text, even pico blows vi out of the water.
Uh. None of which is any use to you if you’re running MS Windows, of course…
HA!! Standby, you will be assimilated…
Talking of assimilation I recall Macromedia have recently ‘merged’ with Allaire, the makers of my favourite editor HomeSite. I swear, they’re taking over !
I’ve been a big fan of The Semware Editor for a long time, going back to the q-edit in DOS.
If you’ve got access to a Mac, use BBedit. It is, far and away, the most useful text editor on the market. And they’ve got a great slogan.