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Textpad - anything better?

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Slickone

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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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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
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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?
 
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.
 
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
whats wrong with notepad?
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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.
 
Originally posted by: Markbnj
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
whats wrong with notepad?
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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.
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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.
 
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
oh...i dont write h@X or anything. I just use it copy paste things from time to time.
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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();}}

🙂
 
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?
 
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