Acme for Windows

jacoplane writes "You may remember Rob Pike from his Slashdot interview. Since his interview, his two-dimensional text editors have experienced many improvements and ports including license improvements. A port to Inferno has been around for awhile. Recently a standalone version has been made for Windows based on the Inferno port. Linux users are in luck as the native port is now legally distributable."

Comments

Can it be better than EditPad [Lite]...?

[ivi]

Free, easy to use & WYSIWYG... Does one really need more?

The paid version also does heaps for web makers (in HTML, etc)
and programmers (using other languages).

Re:Can it be better than EditPad [Lite]...?

[Dracos]

EditPad (I've been using Pro for several years now) is without a doubt the best editor available on Windows. There is a binary version available for *nix, which unfortunately for GNOME users, is compiled against Qt.

Features:

• Unlimited undo
• Syntax highlighting for most common languages (anyone could write a highlighting scheme for, say, brainf*ck if they wanted to)
• Almost unlimited simultaneous files open (my personal record: 784)
• PCRE-based search and replace
• Highly customizable interface
• Can use external executables/scripts to manipulate open files

In short, EditPad rules. The only features it lacks for me is a way to disable insert/overwrite mode switching. Folding would be nice too. Are you listening, Jan?

Re:Can it be better than EditPad [Lite]...?

[phasm42]

I've been beta'ing EditPad Pro 6 since the start of the year, and it supports folding. The betas are done and now it's at RC2, so I think it'll be ready soon. Jan is very responsive to bug reports -- every bug I've submitted was responded to and fixed in the subsequent beta. I tried out a lot of text editors before I found one I really liked enough to buy, and this is definitely it. In fairness, I don't know much about EPP5 -- I started out with EPP6 since it had the macro support I wanted.