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I'm surprised it's not in the list.
Kevin
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As am I. I've been using it for about six years now...legally!
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Me too - I've been using it for...I guess 10 years? I know I got it on 3.5" floppy, as downloads weren't really de rigeur at that point. The company I work for has got a site license as well, so I can use it at work legally.
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Same here. I've been happy with it for years.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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I was also quite surprised it was not on the list. I mistakenly typed in TextEdit (from Mac programming world) instead of TextPad...
But, I decided to try some that were on the list I had not used, like Notepad++ and I found out I liked it a bit more. I have been a devout user of Textpad for many, many years (not Wildedit), but I found the out-of-the box capabilities, plugins, native language support in Notepadd++ nice.
I have used UltraEdit, many devs in my office swear by it, and I found that emacs for Windows/Unix (quite painful to learn), for the capabilities.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Einstein
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jadaar wrote: I have used UltraEdit
I used it briefly several years ago. I'd say UltraEdit and TextPad are comparable - or they were at the time.
jadaar wrote: I found that emacs for Windows/Unix (quite painful to learn)
Tried Emacs briefly when I had to do two months of Unix dev several years ago. I couldn't get on with it. I asked the hardcore Unix guys in the team if I should learn vi and surprisingly they said no! In the end I just ended up using the Unix CDE equivalent of Notepad - can't remember what it was called. Not at all satisfactory. It all just added to my hatred of Unix.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: In the end I just ended up using the Unix CDE equivalent of Notepad - can't remember what it was called. Not at all satisfactory. It all just added to my hatred of Unix.
Seriously, there is a pretty good "Windows-like" editor for *nix - NEdit[^].
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I know what you mean. The text editors buit into the Unix CDEs are very nice, not as full featured but they get the job done.
Why the emacs developers were so intent on making the use cryptic I will never understand.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Einstein
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I agree ... I have been using it for about 6-7 years ... simply great!
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Textpad is the one.
But only Version 4. in Version 5 they screwed up the search in files dialog. i liked it to be BIG and docked in the main area.
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I don't notice any difference in the search in files dialog. Or do you mean the search results? I've just tried it for the first time. It doesn't seem to dock at all. This looks like a bug.
Oh, yeah it does dock, after a bit of fiddling around. However, it doesn't appear as a a main tab and that is a usability regression IMO. Yes, I know it now behaves like Visual Studio's. But TextPad 4's search in files behaviour was superior to the way VS works.
Kevin
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It's in 5th place, before Notepad2 
I am also a Textpad fan, though I must admit that I've tried less than half of the editors in the poll.
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Me too. 
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Progression says it all, but I'll explain. I used PFE for text editing everything from like 95 till 03. It was a really good program, but suffers from not having any advancements in a long time. I just used notepad when I got my new machine for a while and then got too frustrated to do anything scream as half of the files I edit were originally created in unix. To combat this I recently moved (last year) to notepad++. I had trouble getting used to the interface, but now that I am it is pretty usable. A few weeks ago I wanted a free format fortran editor as NP++ didn't natively support it and I couldn't make the workarounds that people suggest work. I downloaded eclipse and the photran plugin and started using that. Since then I've been using it for everything and really like it. It has all the benefits that I like about an IDE and the flexibility of a plain-jane text editor.
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It is simple and fast no extras no problem if i need more option then i use ms word
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Word is great for writing documentation, essays, and the like, but for large text-based script files and such, never would I use it
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It's an interesting thing. Who really uses a text editor? I use VS2005 for writing code, Word for writing documentation, FrontPage for writing articles (yes, I'm archaic), and whatever you want to call that online GMail editor for writing emails. OK, I occasionally write notes to myself using Notepad, but I'm trying to break the habit, and use Google's note applets, which is really useful because notes tend to be something I want to have access to on any computer, anywhere.
Marc
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I'm with you. I sometimes copy text from an HTML page into Notepad for pasting into another document without the formatting, but other than that it's VS2005 IDE and Word.
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I tend to keep away from google anything, these days. They seem to be interested in gathering my life into their database.
It bothers me to even send mail to gmail.
For whatever reason, even before they set their sights on DoubleClick, I've lost faith in google.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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Balboos wrote: I've lost faith in google.
Well, I was never under the delusion that google was anything but interested in gathering my life into their database.
I practice the simplest security policy possible: open information. OK, sure, I won't give you my SSN, credit card #'s or server passwords, so there is a limit, but otherwise, I try to keep things simple. Otherwise it gets very confusing and complicated.
Marc
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Yeah the first time I ever typed a search into an internet box, I thought "somebody is collecting this information and if they're not, they're stupid to ignore it" - knowing what people actually want is a super power. And yeah, nothing you might think is private is actually private. SSNs can be gotten a bunch of ways, just think of how many organizations have your SSN - it is a meaningless number. Your bank account numbers, address, income information, criminal history, all that stuff is (essentially) public records.
The problem is that banks and other financial institutions accept this public information as proof of identity.
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Perhaps I follow a version of your "open information" plan, too?
It's done a bit differently: I create new information at every turn. I'm a male/female teenage/senior citizen with/without children who's married, single, and divorced. No better place to hide a forest than amongst trees. Or is it the other way around.
Some stuff sneaks out - such as when an on-line purchase is made.
The information sucking that I fear the most: what an astounding profile is produced from your credit-card puchases! And, if you're in a place with scanning tollbooths ("EZPass" in NY, for example), you even leave a fingerprint of where you've been, and when.
As my life begins to recurse upon itself, I realize that I am part of the problem. Apps that with SQL queries collecting, correlating, and spewing out data aggregates.
What have I done? What have I become? Does anybody even care?
Text Editors? Only the tip of the iceberg!
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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Marc Clifton wrote: Who really uses a text editor?
I do, a lot. Most of the new development here is done on Linux, and after evaluating several of the most popular IDEs (KDevelop, Eclipse, MingW Studio,...) I decided to use vim for writing code (any code - C++, HTML/CSS, JavaScript,...). Now I have hard times editing code with Visual Studio, although nothing in the Linux world comes close to its integrated debugger.
Even under Windows, I need a good text editor - my job is mostly about text/language processing, so I need to edit/view a lot of text samples with different encodings and in various languages.
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Huh. I use text editors all the time. I have three open right now! And that's on top of the twenty or so files open across four instances of VS.
One contains some throw-away queries i'm working on. Another is a configuration file i'd tweaked. And the last are some stylesheets for a website i was playing with. When i'm on the phone and need to take notes, i pop open another text editor and start typing.
Sure, i could use VS for all these things. But VS doesn't open immediately, and Ctrl+N doesn't immediately open a new text file, and if i was gonna associate VS with all my .config, .ini, .log, .inf, etc. files, i'd have to always be worried about launching too many instances, or the wrong version or whatever. The app's just not built for that kind of use.
The little text editor is my digital equivalent to the pile of old printouts that sits next to my keyboard for doodling on, taking notes, keeping lists, etc.
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...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...
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