Textpad - anything better?

[Slickone]

Is there anything that's better than, or the same & cheaper as, Textpad? It's fast loading, unbloated UI, and has some handy tools. I use the find and replace, change case, compare files tools a lot, and a few others.

Thinking about trying their Wildedit as well, since I save a lot of emails to text files from Comcast's crappy webmail interface that screws the text all up.

Edit: Textpad 5 just came out last week.

 

[James Bond]

I <3 textpad.

 

[stevf]

take a look at crimson editor - small and completely free


edit - also take a look at the freeware sticky - several free alternatives there, but havent tested any of them. though I am about to take a look at notepad++. Crimson edit does provide find/replace over multiple files and seems similiar in features to textpad

 

[Nothinman]

<3 gvim

 

[jjones]

I've been using EditPad Plus for my notepad replacement. Nice features.

 

[Jaxidian]

I've used EditPad Pro for years (since like version 2 or 3). I love it.

 

[PowerEngineer]

Originally posted by: jjones
I've been using EditPad Plus for my notepad replacement. Nice features.

I've been very pleased with EditPadLite (the free version).

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

UltraEdit isn't free but is similar to TextPad and has has more functionality. It's especially good if you're doing multiple languages and file formats.

SC Unipad was more basic but perfect for converting between Unicode formats. I haven't used it for a few years cos I changed jobs.

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
<3 gvim

 

[BigPete]

http://www.pspad.com/en/

 

[Munky]

Originally posted by: BigPete
http://www.pspad.com/en/

Beat me to it. I've been using it for a few months and it has all the features I was looking for and then some.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Just vim.

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: stevf
take a look at crimson editor - small and completely free


edit - also take a look at the freeware sticky - several free alternatives there, but havent tested any of them. though I am about to take a look at notepad++. Crimson edit does provide find/replace over multiple files and seems similiar in features to textpad

Snapfiles rated Crimson Editor 5 stars, vs. 4 stars for EditPad Light. EditPad Pro seems like Textpad.

EditPad doesnt have change case commands, that I can find (just looking online)?

Crimson Editor says it does via edit menu, but can you with a keyboard shortcut?

Crimson has 'window splitter to see different parts of a document', something I need. Does Editpad?

Can any of these allow you to swap between tabs via keyboard?

 

[Markbnj]

I use ScITE for simple web page editing.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

whats wrong with notepad?

 

[BigPete]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
whats wrong with notepad?

It sucks?

 

[stealth2009]

Try Ultraedit. It's ideal for coders.

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[Atheus]

Which editors can show me the matching closing tag of an opening xml/html element? The one I use now shows me closing brackets in C-like languages but if I click on the '<' of an xml tag it just highlights the '>' at the end.

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
whats wrong with notepad?

Do you really use Notepad for editing? I would think of this as the writing/coding equivalent of standing in a cold rain whipping myself with a steel cable.

 

[BigPete]

Originally posted by: Markbnj

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
whats wrong with notepad?

Do you really use Notepad for editing? I would think of this as the writing/coding equivalent of standing in a cold rain whipping myself with a steel cable.

People probably think its "l33ts0r" or something. Like you said, why anyone would subject themselves to writing any significant amount of code (C#, Java, HTML, whatever) in notepad when there are much better tools freely available is beyond me.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

oh...i dont write h@X or anything. I just use it copy paste things from time to time.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Yomicron

Originally posted by: Nothinman
<3 gvim

Third!

Or something...

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
oh...i dont write h@X or anything. I just use it copy paste things from time to time.

Oh, ok. Well then you can take my word for it: there are a few things wrong with notepad. Like when you type code in with careful structure, then save it, and it comes back looking like this:

public void Save() { Stream str = null; SoapFormatter formatter = new SoapFormatter(); try { str = File.OpenWrite(Properties.Resources.Sys_DefConfigFileName); formatter.Serialize(str, _settings);_changed = false;} catch (System.Exception ex){ MessageBox.Show(Properties.Resources.UI_MB_SettingsFailedMsg + " " + ex.Message, Properties.Resources.UI_MB_SettingsFailedCaption, MessageBoxButton.OK, MessageBoxImage.Error);}finally{if ( str != null )str.Close();}}

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: BigPete
http://www.pspad.com/en/

Thanks. I was looking for something besides UltraEdit since it has expired for me; PSPad looks pretty good. :thumbsup:

 

[Slickone]

EditPad doesnt have change case commands, that I can find (just looking online)?

Crimson Editor says it does via edit menu, but can you with a keyboard shortcut?

Crimson has 'window splitter to see different parts of a document', something I need. Does Editpad?

Can any of these allow you to swap between tabs via keyboard?