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I'm a Chinese software blogger, deep user and promoter of TC, vim, irfanview, 7-zip, autohotkey, Evernote, wink, etc.
and now I'm in a 2-week business trip in Houston.

Are there DC members or software fans near Houston?
I'd like to have a meetup, exchange software experience.

Congratulations.
But it's a pity for none multi-lang UI, none unicode support in "text object".

something similar which opens a very basic notepad style window with all the current folder paths contents, and just like in notepad you can go line to line, find and replace, etc,.

This really good idea was implemented in 2 software:

1st is freeware Chgname.
by k.l.nygard@hfstud.uio.no in 1998, via Delphi 4.0.
the wesbiste is not visitable now（http://www.uio.no/~kln/）
but you can download via: http://www.reformed-theol...org/downloads/Chgname.zip

2nd is the famous Total Commander.
select what you want to rename,
ctrl+m
you get a very powerful multi-rename tool.
also, you can click the button for external text editor (for me, it's Vim).
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Great TC and great review.
And, I'll write something for TC7.5 this evening, in Chinese.

"Everything" 1.2.0.317b is available for beta testing. It now supports Unicode ……

Yes, It support Chinese 中文 now. And I 'll provide a Chinese language Pack.
Thanks for the news.

Also, one reader from my blog are waiting for the FARR plugin.

很好!
very nice!

Another idea:
keep ahk scripts all together with a tree style notes manager.
the left side is the tree, that is the list all ahk scripts.
the right side is the content (highlight is better) of current selected ahk.
with some hotkey, users can run/stop any ahk easily.

click here for flash show
http://xbeta.info/files/ubiquity.htm

100% agree with you.
CMS maybe better for some wirters, also include me.
but wordpress are more easy to use, so I keep in wordperss now.

I do that, because your work, both DC & your software, are really great  and helped me a lot.
Best wishes to this forum, all developers, and all readers do better and better.

xbeta you rock.  :
Eóin and destiny ruler, really nice 
i'm really loving this thread, i hope we can keep it going for a long time.

[Screenshot Captor]

my website, or call it a blog, is http://xbeta.info
the aim to write & publish, is to share my experience on freeware:
- find the best freeware, to alternate the not so good ones (free/share/commercial), to help people avoid crack
- share the principles and skills of using software
the Chinese name of the site 善 用 佳 软 means:
善 kindly & skillfully
用 use
佳 nice
软 software

maybe there are not so many Chinese readers here ( but I do meet some, even also my reader), so I help to exchange ideas and information between DC & Chinese.
- I translated some posts and homepage into Chinese:
  + Screenshot Captor homepage: http://xbeta.info/screenshot_captor.htm
  + how to use Screenshot Captor：http://blog.sina.com.cn/s...log_46dac66f010004y3.html
  + translate of notetaking software review, http://blog.sina.com.cn/s...log_46dac66f01000b55.html
  + translate of best text editor review: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s...log_46dac66f010006k9.html
  + recently finished the translation of SQLNotes UI & homepage: http://xbeta.info/sqlnotes.htm

- publish some article of WPS, an office suite similar to MS Office, but only 40+MB

my friends, maybe these Chinese(or Chinses related) softare are familar to you:
- Maxthon, Avant Browser, Green Browser, the world,   they're all IE based rich featured broswer
- myBase, a free form note taker
- foxit reader, a lite and fast pdf reader
- Fast Stone Capture and so on
- download managers: netants, flashget, etc

If any friend want more Chinese to know your software (freeware best) or ideas, I'd like to help.

Also, welcome to Beijing. Welcome to 2008 Olympics.

PPLandry:

I have finished the UI Chinese translation and send to betasupport@sqlnotes.net several days ago, also a forum message to you. but got no reply. You got it?

the Chinese translation is here：
中文翻译版本见此处：
http://xbeta.info/firefox3-new.htm

you should do that.
also, the Screenshot Captor.

maybe it's always a good idea to creat program with seperated language files.

If people really want this, i could add it without much trouble.

[ask for Mouser's permission of translate.]

I know the power of FARR, although I did not use it.
so I intorduce it to Chinese users:
http://xbeta.info/ask-quick-launch.htm
if you cannot read Chinse, see the google translated page.

and ask my readers to help translate the homepage & FARR into Chinese.
ask for Mouser's permission of translate.

thanks to all of the replies.
also thanks to all the nice tools.

[2009-09-03 update:]

2009-09-03 update:
Editpad has fixed this bug.
EditPad Lite 6.5.0 - 1 September 2009, Word wrap: Allow text to be wrapped after any ideograph, even if there is no whitespace.
and the author said in email: The next free minor update of AceText will get the same fix.

a small bug in Chinese (maybe also other double byte characters) when it auto wrap:
it try to change to a new line at a "space", but this is not a good rule in Chinese.
see what happened at the tab, which is at the beginning of a paragrap.
notepad OK, Acetext bug.

other Chinese users can have a test.

    道可道，非常道；名可名，非常名。无名天地之始，有名万物之母。
    故常无欲以观其妙，有欲以观其窍。此两者同出而异名，同为之玄，玄之又玄，众妙之门。



 

[all my texts]

xbeta,
Have you tried minipad2 by Xu Liang, Nebula Software?  Yes - Chinese    

yes, I know it. although not try it too much.
I need a program to hold all my texts together, so a tree is necessary, only muti-tab is not enough.
that's is,  I want an info manager (can store all the final result), instead of a quick note taker (temporary take note and then move it too other place or delet it )

I know it's hard to find a better solution than EverNote/WikidPad/AceText/Mybase....
but just can not help searching it.

[d]

in fact, it's my 1st time find it's name is wiki----d-----pad.
maybe the author will do something for such a common mistake.

Hey guys, just want to mention again that it's wikidpad, not wikipad...  I'm just saying because it helps to find threads about certain software when the name is well spelt.

……I use autohotkey to ……. Many softwares lacked custom shotcuts

AHK is also my favorite. It can do more things than we think.
once a user asked for shortcut in Total Commander,
to remap the up and down arrow to ^N, ^P.
although TC is highly customizable, but these action/command are not in list.
so I give the code in AHK, and find that, in this way, ahk can remap any shortcut key for anysoftware.

SetTitleMatchMode, 2
SetKeyDelay, 0

^p::
IfWinActive Total Commander
    send, {up}
else
    sendplay, ^p
return

^n::
IfWinActive Total Commander
    send, {down}
else
    sendplay, ^n
return

You can always try wikidpad. I have been using it for 4 years. It is plain text with wiki features plus many advanced ideas that many others do not have like superior tracking-tagging per page or per line etc
http://www.jhorman.org/wikidPad/

yes, this is a very good software.
support utf-8 and search very well. tag is powerful.
I even creat a flash to show it to my readers, see attachment.
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but I dont like it very much, although I dont know why.

kartal, do you save all your information in one or several database? how big (MB) is it? about how many items in it?
can  it run well in case of large mount of information ?

emacs's org mode gives you the best plain text support ever. it even does tables (in text). Very good outliner.
Still, a bit of a learning curve...

yes, yes, Emacs can do everything.
but my love editor is Vim.
with some plugin, it works as outliner.
but not as convient as a real outliner.

I know it's hard to find such a satisfied tool.
but I noticed not quite a few people, eg. mouser, also said prefer of plain text.
so I still start this post.
maybe, such users can join together raise some money or award, to help some programmer make a such tool.
degrad a more advanced tool, such as mybase, evernote, theguide, to plain text maybe also a good idea.

nice to find a reader here.
so you can imagine that I, in fact, tested most of such tools.
I tested Zoot 1 year ago, it handle very very long text is not so good, but that's not important.
and when I test the new version, just meet the same problem as you mentioned.
with it can solve it.

but also, the AceText team has got my email about the wrap bug.
if the done, I'll use AceText.

as you mentioned about the Vim, that's also my No.1 tool.
the Chinese software textfriend 良友收藏家 support external editor, can use vim.
but ceased developement several years ago.

hey xbeta, I am a reader of your blog

I am personally very fond of zoot. It lacks utf support (but it deal perfectly with chinese as long as you set your locale to chinese) and is not freeware (you can continue to use it with a annoying notice upon start up after it expires). It has a 32bit version which unfortunately failed to start on chinese windows. I have complaint about it in the forum, hopefully with the current pace of ungrading, the author will get it right soon.

The good thing about zoot is the amazing search capability and flexbility of the database. However, one thing I miss is the ability to use an external editor. if only we can use vim along with zoot...mmmm....

Horst Schaeffer's MemPad

support utf-8.
Don't know.  It doesn't support Unicode; see this message.  As far as I know, it ticks most of your other boxes.

it's a small tool. I used the earlier version several years ago.
the only problem is it cannot search & find Chinese.

Jreepad is a java based program, like treepad.
the only shortcoming is the font is too small, bad for eyes, and cannot be changed.

This is what you are looking for:  AceText - text & clipboard manager (for coders, writers, etc.)

 

this is good. thanks.

I have nerver try it before. although I use EditPad 8 years ago (but then UltraEdit, then Vim). It's very fast even in huge text files. very good.

one thing bad for Chinese is the word wrap. that is:

wrap means begin a new line.
for English, it's good to start a new line at a positon of "space, tab", instead of split a word.
but for Chinese, there are no space needed in sentence. but often use space or tab before a paragraph.
so, the software make the first 4 or 8 spaces or tab in line 1, then the text.
that's not good.

now, the author had got my test file, and trying to do somthing.
If it solved, I 'll order it at once.

I noticed the new version (not the current url ) some days ago.
and we have finished a Chinese translation of the famous best-46-freeware:
http://xbeta.info/best_46_free_utilities.htm
this is also mentioned in the lates issue of newsletter:
4.3 The 46 Best Freeware List Now in Chinese

also, there is a page for Screenshot Captor, maybe need to update.
http://xbeta.info/screenshot_captor.htm

wish donationcoder can also go better and better.