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I thought you meant Notepad2 for a moment there. It has syntax highlighting and other nice features, and I'm running it now with about 3k of text open and it's using 1MB of memory.

I won't speak for nathan s, but I personally use notepad2 and save in standard ASCII text. It does the single most important thing of all: it gets the hell out of my way.

When I reinstall my Windows box the first thing that gets replaced is Notepad. Specifically it is replaced with Notepad2, which is IMHO the best simple editor for Windows. In my opinion if Microsoft had any sense they would buy the app and substitute it in by default.

As for the subject...

I do wonder what they want to achieve with this: whether they really want to make the apps more visible by having them in a 'shopping aisle' on a server somewhere; or if they want to ease Windows OS and applications development; or if they want to make Windows seem cleaner to the end-user.

If the latter their efforts may be stunted by the cheapjack OEM software that often comes with new PCs.

I'm curious if Microsoft is actually trying to begin shifting things off the desktop in some small way here. You know, get people used to the idea of the 'core' simple software not coming bundled with the OS and needing to download it.

Later they add paid software and after that somewhat seamlessly begin adding paid services into the mix. Gradually they can turn their OS a more services oriented platform without any huge surprises for their users.

I could be waaay of the mark here but I can't help but wonder if this isn't part of a larger goal.

My wife's been a web designer for about a decade and as her home sysadmin maybe I can relay an opinion or two.

My understanding is that you _will_ use Dreamweaver -- but should you care? You want to teach the code and you want them to see how the code looks in the range of browsers so why not emphasize that in the learning environment? My wife has been perfectly happy with bluefish at home but of course that's linux (with Win XP running in a qemu window). I believe Quanta Plus would work and give you content management if that is important. You could even be remembered as the teacher who was hard core and made them code in Notepad2 -- so they'd at least have syntax highlighting. Or maybe consider going the opposite direction from austere and starting from scratch on a full-ranged IDE like Aptana on Eclipse with Dojo if that isn't _way_ outside the range of the course? Picking up Dreamweaver should be a run through the menu options.

My wife is happy with Photoshop 7 -- "integrated" or not. I'm not sure she has anything much newer at work. I've tried promoting the GIMP. I've sneaked GIMPshop onto her laptop. ("But honey! It's laid out like Photoshop!") She won't have a word of it. But, like I say, Photoshop 7 is OK with her.

Flash is another story. Like people say, it is mutating rapidly and the mutations aren't backward compatible. I don't know whether any of the open source .swf projects are any better as learning exercises than Flash 5 and Flash 5 is a problem. Maybe you have to gut through that and scream for Flash CS3 in the future.

Notepad is a powerful editor only if it's really Notepad2 :)

Could not see it mentioned anywhere. TC http://www.ghisler.com/ is the first thing that goes on my fresh Win-installs. If you used it once you'll never go back to File Explorer or mess with WinZip. I'll add a vote for IrfanView, and Notepad2 http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html should be mandatory on every system.
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I prefer Notepad2. It's nice and small, and does syntax highlighting a bunch of languages. I mostly use it when writing HTML, but I sometimes open C++ files in just because it does that thing where you click on one bracket and it highlights the other.

Start > Programs > Accessories > Notepad2

It has a very simple interface that looks like the original notepad, it does syntax coloring for two dozen different languages and file formats, shows bracket matching, adds line numbers, word wrap features, support for UNIX- and mac-style line terminations, regexps, and is in general what notepad itself should have been back in the 1990s. Plus, it's freeware. What more could you want?

Personally i'm a fan of Notepad2 from Flo's Freeware. It's wonderfully simple notepad, with smart syntax highlighting. No tabs though...but come on do we have to tab everything!?

I like to use Notepad2 when I'm doing lightweight editing tasks. Line numbering (the original reason I switched away from Notepad so many years ago), synatx highlighting, regex, and more.

No, it's not tabbed, but when I want tabs I open up my heavy-hitter editor JEdit. It's fast, it's OSS, it's simple, it's got a clean interface and did I say it was fast?

I have no idea why MS doesn't update their #1 (non-solitare) used utility. Anti-Monopoly measure for 3rd party editors? Maybe. That didn't stop them from putting out MS Defender. Anyway, are there any articles outlining the new/improved utilities for Vista?

I like to use Notepad2 when I'm doing lightweight editing tasks. Line numbering (the original reason I switched away from Notepad so many years ago), synatx highlighting, regex, and more.

No, it's not tabbed, but when I want tabs I open up my heavy-hitter editor JEdit. It's fast, it's OSS, it's simple, it's got a clean interface and did I say it was fast?

I have no idea why MS doesn't update their #1 (non-solitare) used utility. Anti-Monopoly measure for 3rd party editors? Maybe. That didn't stop them from putting out MS Defender. Anyway, are there any articles outlining the new/improved utilities for Vista?

I like to use Notepad2 when I'm doing lightweight editing tasks. Line numbering (the original reason I switched away from Notepad so many years ago), synatx highlighting, regex, and more.

No, it's not tabbed, but when I want tabs I open up my heavy-hitter editor JEdit. It's fast, it's OSS, it's simple, it's got a clean interface and did I say it was fast?

I have no idea why MS doesn't update their #1 (non-solitare) used utility. Anti-Monopoly measure for 3rd party editors? Maybe. That didn't stop them from putting out MS Defender. Anyway, are there any articles outlining the new/improved utilities for Vista?

http://www.flos-freeware.ch/metapath.html Metapath was written to integrate with Metapad but works with other things. I thought that maybe the plugin might be similar.

notepad2!!!!!!!

Notepad2

A descent text editor: have you tried Notepad 2 for me it has worked wonders, as I was looking for a text editor as fast as notepad with more features but not as bloated as JEdit or UltraEdit (this last is not free).

Descent media player, have you tried VCL? personally I think MS Media player is quite good, as I can play almost everything on it, but of course as it is from Microsoft it surely is crap for you so, VLC will do it.

Decent Clipboard viewer, this (clipbrd) page might be useful for you and guess what, you have to TYPE the command to use it, so you wont miss the Linux way.

And what do you mean by "unsupported"?? unsupported by who? by the operating system? those apps are not more supported by Linux than by Linux, in both OS they have the exactly same licenses. In none of them can you call the OS company representatives to help you using them (as both of them will tell you to RTF-Forums-FAQs, etc).

And the Gimp is equally FULLY SUPPORTED in Windowze, I can see you are just flamebaiting... ask the people who made the Gimp how much "more" they support The Gimp for windows and for Linux... WTF are you barfing about?... I do not know why am I answering to your comment...

I'm not an XHTML fanboy, but I can tell you right now that your XHTML code is correct and your HTML is not. You're using opening <P> tags where the optional closing tag should be, but you've totally left off the opening <P>, the only part that is actually mandatory.

I think both of your examples are equally readable--and only one of them is correct. And the fact that you use emacs, if indeed you do, doesn't matter much unless you were going for bragging rights. Suit yourself, but I think the best thing that can be done for readability is a lightweight syntax-highlighting editor (like Notepad2 for win32, and there are similar tools that I presumably don't need to tell you about for Linux).

I've been using Notepad2. It's supports syntax highlighting and is fast, free and open source!