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Filezilla uploads and downloads files from and to your web site.

Notepad++ is used for fundamental work, like programming and checking the validity of HTML and organizing HTML web pages. (See the Tidy2 plugin.)

See the list of Notepad++ plugins.

Filezilla uploads and downloads files from and to your web site.

Notepad++ is used for fundamental work, like programming and checking the validity of HTML and organizing HTML web pages. (See the Tidy2 plugin.)

See the list of Notepad++ plugins.

I know you're probably trolling, but here goes anyway. You should try Notepad++. Everything notepad can do and more. It graciously handles line ends, allows files to be saved/open in whatever char format you want, syntax highlighting, and even has auto-save and multiple levels of undo. With some plugins, it becomes a respectable IDE as well.

If you don't mind getting binaries from ninite.com, you can get an installer/updater. The developer of Notepad++ updates it at least monthly.

Your grandchild should be able to install it for you from here:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Good quotes:

"Sure there are some users that may use some of the very advanced features that only Office offers, but I think that is a very small percentage of the users."

That seems correct to me. I use LibreOffice to write business letters when it is necessary to use tree-killer paper.

"It [LibreOffice] has given fewer problems than [Microsoft] Office, ..."

I agree. In my comment that started this thread, Does Microsoft use deliberate file irregularities?, I forgot to mention that I had other problems with Microsoft Office. Weird responses from the user interface, for example. Back in the old days, Clippy was annoying, of course.

If there aren't problems, software companies would not be able to sell a new version of sold software to most people. Now that software is being rented, not sold, there is a different way to force income. People spend hours learning how to use complicated software. It would be expensive to learn other software. So, software renters can increase the monthly rent.

Complicated document organization? Design in HTML, then copy and paste to LibreOffice or Microsoft Office. Design a table, for example, in the free What You See is What You Get SeaMonkey Composer. (Don't use SeaMonkey email, use Thunderbird.) Use the free Notepad++ with the Tidy2 plugin to make the HTML easy to read. When you like the HTML, merely copy and paste it to LibreOffice or Microsoft Office.

The Right Thing!(tm) differs from person to person, and may even change for a single person as circumstances change.

Agree, most complex tools have lots of paths and it's entirely unclear where to begin but then again the application has no clue what you're trying to accomplish. I'm thinking of applications like Photoshop, Visual Studio, Excel, Notepad++, Resolve and a whole lot of others. Many, many layers of menus, toolbars, dialogs, tabs, window areas, settings, options and so on. I think that past a certain complexity there's no such thing as a particularly great one-fits-all design. So my pet wishes:

1. Let me easily move things around. Like if I want to re-dock the windows, resize them etc. I can do that.
2. Let me easily collapse/remove things I don't need. Or better yet, hide the less used options with an expander/under an advanced button.
3. Give me a usable way to search for functionality instead of digging through menus and reading tooltips
4. Offer some kind of preview/sample functionality where relevant. I'm not always sure exactly what to do.
5. Proper undo/redo history or at least be explicitly clear on what can't be undone.
6. Auto-complete/suggestions from past entry where possible/relevant, but please no assistants.
7. Control over what changes/defaults are saved, like do I want the file dialog to start in the most recently used directory or the one configured.
8. Try being consistent about how things work, avoid unexpected side effects, be clear in naming.
9. If it's in the nature to be scripted, I love GUIs that build a command line I can copy and save.
10. Don't make change for change's sake. At the very least offer a "classic" interface, don't force people.

That would be a good start.

This isn't a hack of notepad++

Notepad.exe has to this conversation.

Nothing at all.

Fortunately, there is a free & excellent solution to that problem for those among us who have to use Windows.

Try Notepad++. https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ It's a good, free, lightweight programmer's editor, in the style of Notepad.

Yep. I use notepad++ on pretty much every machine I work on, usually as a general text editor. And Sublime for actual programming.

    The difference is having on installed by default, like Powershell is. Sure I can install python, perl, or whatever. But there's a big difference in having something that's the same for everyone performing a similar task.

"you losers"

This is what Linux has become. Linus Torvalds does it himself! You give the worst possible interpretation to what people say, and then pretend they are "losers".

Microsoft: Windows Media Center came with Windows 7. It has many areas in which it seems unfinished, but it is easy to use, even for children.

Linux: What Media Center to you recommend? It must have TV schedules and allow recording of over-the-air TV.

Microsoft: Notepad++ is extremely valuable. There are lots of plugins. But it runs only on Windows.

Linux: What editor is as good as Notepad++?

" basic versioning"

The free Notepad++ can make a backup of every save, with date and time in the .BAK file name. The .BAK files can be in a special folder.

You don't even need a text editor if you use a site such as CodePen.

Who has access to a computer that doesn't have a text editor?!? Even if the default ones that come with Windows or Mac OS X are pretty much throw-aways, there are plenty of free text editors for either one, including NotePad++ for Windows or TextWrangler for the Mac, and Sublime which is available on both.

Then what's this?

a 1-digit number plus a newline, in unicode, takes as much space as a DWORD.

A 1-digit number in UTF-8 is one byte, and a newline is one more byte (or two if you want compatibility with Windows Notepad). For example, 5 followed by a newline is '35 0A' (or ('35 0D 0A' if you want compatibility with Windows Notepad). Were you assuming UTF-16? In addition, because each individual value has a type (as I understand it), each individual key still needs to store the marker for whether the value is a DWORD or a string. What definition of DWORD are you using?

Try editing a .INI file in a Unix-style editor

Gedit and Leafpad appropriately ignore 0D bytes. Most heavier editors, such as Geany, offer explicit newline modes.

or a Unix-style config file in Notepad

I edit UNIX style files in Notepad++ all the time. WordPad can read them as well.

Your solution is to push the burden onto app authors?

No, my solution is to push the burden onto library authors.

Even with frameworks like Python making it easy, it's still a hell of a lot better if you don't have to go parsing files at all.

I thought one still had to export and parse .reg files when moving parts of the registry from one machine to another, especially from a machine with one architecture to a machine with another architecture. Does 05 00 00 00 mean 5 or 83886080 (endianness)? One also needs to make .reg files to move settings from a Windows machine joined to a Windows Server domain to a Windows machine not joined to a Windows Server domain or a non-Windows machine or vice versa.

[The fact that] HTML was intended as a human-readable and -writable format [...] makes the jobs of web developers and browser authors just a little bit easier

And human-readable configuration files make it easier for people using text-processing tools such as diff on their configuration files.

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.1.3.html

Notepad++ v6.1.3 7z package : Don't want to use installer? 7z format.

You can run "Notepad++" from a USB stick.

1. Download a VM like Virtalbox.
2. Download Puppy Linux .iso
3. Install Puppy Linux in Virtalbox. 4 gig dynamic drive with 128 megs of RAM will suffice.
4. Inside puppy download and install the pet package Hiawatha
5. Setup FTP inside your home directory (I think it's called setup file sharing)
6. Set your network in Puppy to a static IP and set Virtualbox to use a bridged adapter for the puppy install.
7. Use Notepad++, Filezilla in windows to FTP into your virtual box to update files.

That's close to a LAMP server. I don't think technically using Puppy/Hiawatha would be LAMP. But I believe Hiawatha serves the same function as Apache and I think would suit your purpose. if you're just interested in the PHP part you can also just install XAMPP.

The thing I like about the Virtualbox (or any VM) is you can wipe it out easily. You can move it to different computers. It's easy to play around with FTP and SSH settings.
There are tons of ways to do this without getting a host if you're just looking to learn. If you really want a host most have LAMP options. For many it is even the default. For tutorials I think W3 Schools is good starting point and has examples.

*All suggestions are debatable. When making these suggestions I considered using low resources and ease of use. Given more resources to give to the Virtual box you have tons and tons of choices.

So the real question is, what software can I use, so that I can pretend to be a web page designer without knowing all that messy stuff like html, css, xml and javascript/perl/php or even that weird server side stuff.

Answer, then reason all those graphical web page designer software falls over is basically because it is crap. People expect to be able to design web pages like all those professional on the web, rather than clunking amateurish single fixed page documents and are unhappy when they can't.

For people who want to learn there is of course notepad++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ and wampserver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WampServer (if you really want to see how your web page will be served).

You bring up a good point, but I'm going to address this to the OP.

As previously noted by the other commenter, Powershell is useful if your environment is full of Vista computers or newer or if you have more control over the environment so Powershell can be installed (there is an XP installer). It's major draw is the usefulness to systems admins that want to do real-time execution.

Otherwise, you're looking at VBScript or batch scripts. Neither are nowhere near as elegant or smooth as some other languages, but tapping WMI and other Windows objects is actually really simple using VBScript. There are loads of examples here. Also, a Google search in the form of "vbscript %thing%" will usually get you pointed in the right direction.

Do yourself a huge favor, though - get a decent editor. While Windows has a simple notepad app, there is no context highlighting, in-line completion, or other helpful tools for looking at script code. Personally, I prefer PrimalScript because it's useful for other things like SQL, C, Perl, etc (including PowerShell). It also has a built-in debugging engine. However, that app can be expensive. One good free alternative is Notepad++ with the appropriate plug-ins for the files you want to create/edit. There are plenty of others out there, so grab whatever you feel works best for you.

If you're planning on using a database and are familiar with MySQL, you should feel nearly at home with Microsoft's version of SQL. There are some minor syntax differences (for example, the update query is slightly different, if my memory is correct) but it shouldn't take long to get used to them.

Lastly, ideally, you're going to want to an account that is a local administrator on all of the systems you will be touching. Yes, you can do some serious damage with such an account and is typically not the way of things in the *nix world, but many aspects of a Windows system are inaccessible unless you have an Administrator level account - especially remote access to certain things like the registry and WMI. If getting a local administrator account on all the systems you're responsible for isn't an option, have someone that does have one (or a domain admin account) on speed-dial in case your scripts fail due to permissions errors.

Good luck!

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad
replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is
governed by GPL License.

Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API
and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many
routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon
dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption,
resulting in a greener environment.

This project is mature. However, there may be still some bugs and missing features that are being
worked on. If you have any questions or suggestions about this project, please post them in the forums. Also, if
you wish to make a feature request, you can post it there as well. But there's no guarantee that I'll
implement your request.

You're encouraged to translate Notepad++ into your native tongue if there's not already a translation
present in the Binary Translations page. And if you want, help translating Notepad++ official site into your
native tongue would be greatly appreciated.

I hope you enjoy Notepad++ as much as I enjoy coding it.

-- Barbie