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PSPad http://www.pspad.com/ has been my editor of choice for many years now. It does everything I need it to. I've never seen a visual editor which produces code that I'm willing to put my name behind.

I like PSPad on Windows: http://www.pspad.com/en/

It's not as refined as TextMate (which I use heavily on my Mac) but it's the best Win text editor I've found.

Yes, that Enter key really comes in handy when you're trying to edit a 1,000 line config file. And it comes with the added benefit of, once you save your document, sending a config file formatted with Windows newlines to a utility or program expecting Unix newlines.

That's why serious text editors detect which newline character/sequence is being used, and automatically use it. Of course, Notepad was never intended for code editing of any sort. It was intended as a quick way to edit Windows-formatted .bat and .ini files, and to jot down the occasional note. Bitching that notepad sucks for code editing is like complaining that MS Paint has very primitive photo editing features.

If you're looking for a freely available, good quality text editor that you can download in a few minutes, I recommend PSPad (http://www.pspad.com). Of course, on a Mac I just use TextWrangler. ;)

I use PsPad because I can turn off coloring and just use bold and italics (and some other non color modifications). It is really nice when I need to print out the code to hand it in.

http://www.pspad.com/

After checking my url yesterday, I realized that I had an old version of PSPad. After upgrading, I noticed that wordwrap did not work anymore.

From the author, Jan Fiala:

"Wordwrap is problematic in the 4.3.3 version.
How to enable WordWrap you can read in the thread:
http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?f=2&i=8034&t=8034

You can download the PSPad 4.5.0 beta version
from the PSPad beta forum
http://forum.pspad.com/list.php?f=6
if you want to have functional WordWrap"

After installing version 4.5.0, all is well.

Michael

After checking my url yesterday, I realized that I had an old version of PSPad. After upgrading, I noticed that wordwrap did not work anymore.

From the author, Jan Fiala:

"Wordwrap is problematic in the 4.3.3 version.
How to enable WordWrap you can read in the thread:
http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?f=2&i=8034&t=8034

You can download the PSPad 4.5.0 beta version
from the PSPad beta forum
http://forum.pspad.com/list.php?f=6
if you want to have functional WordWrap"

After installing version 4.5.0, all is well.

Michael

My favorite drop-in replacement for notepad is pspad http://www.pspad.com/en/.

It does highlighting and indents for about a dozen computer languages, and has spell-check plugins for as many different spoken languages.

I've been using it for at least 5 years.

Michael

I've been using it for about a month and love it. I love the price too, it's FREE as in somethingrather.. And it not only works with perl, but also with C++, PHP, Python, HTML.. and a ton more.. even text files look better!

http://www.pspad.com

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I run windows because pspad runs on windows.

Nothing like it on other operating systems so far.

You might be better served by PSPad editor.
Better than notepad. Has syntax highlighting, supports mulitple code types, lots of funky stuff.

Actually, I have substituted Metapad for notepad for most quick notes and for all HTML editing.

http://www.pspad.com/

another great editor.

I would consider the following superior options for those recommended in the article.

7-Zip --> TUGzip http://www.tugzip.com/
I used 7zip originally, but when I found TUGzip I switched immediately. It has excellent Explorer right-click menu integration and supports drag/drop, and the 7z format itself. Plus it now supports encryption too.

Tinn --> PSPad http://www.pspad.com/
Just try it yourself, it's far more functional, and is starting to approach the featureset of UltraEdit.

I always used to use the commercial TextPad but recently have been swayed by PSPad.