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Much the same comments would, for me, apply to the excellent ZTreeWin,...

ZTreeWin (ZTW) is *very* powerful and fast-to-use once you burn the single keystroke commands into your brain. This is one of several programs I have open all the time. Not free, but certainly worth every penny many times over.

As an example of its power, is there any other file manager that can do what ZTW's CTRL+B command can do?

Ctrl-Batch     - Create a batch file that contains a command line to be
                  executed for each tagged file.  You may also use this
                  command to create a listing of tagged-file information, so
                  the resulting file can be used as a list, or as data input
                  to another program.  You will first be prompted for the
                  name of the file.  You may enter a directory path before
                  the filename to create the file in that directory.  (In a
                  Branch, Showall or Global File Window, the default
                  destination directory for the file will be the directory
                  that was current before entering that File Window).  Next
                  you will be prompted for a line mask which defines each
                  line of the file.  Enter constant data and variable
                  parameters.  (See section 3.4 'Batch Parameters and
                  Environment Variables' for more information on the
                  parameters and variables that may be used).  Use F4 to
                  toggle between OEM, ANSI and Unicode character sets for
                  text written to the file.

Once you get used to ZTree's file TAGGING methodology, and the way you can quickly select (tag) a list of files based on their paths, names, dates, attributes and contents, and then manipulate those selected (tagged) files in a variety of useful ways, (such as creating a batch file of commands to be applied to each of these file - i.e. CTRL+B), its hard to settle for anything less.

But then again, picking a file manager is kind of like picking a text editor; - product devotion can border on: religious.

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Thanks for the link. And while on the subject of free Win7 resources, you may want to also take a look at:

The TweakGuides Tweaking Companion

Good stuff that.

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Just Great Software's EditPadLite 7 is now out and this new version has added full support for regular expression search and replace (using JGSoft's powerful engine). This is my new favorite free (for non-commercial use) Windows text editor.

Just thought some of you might like to know...

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General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 7 - released
« on: May 17, 2011, 02:10 PM »
Yes, no doubt that the syntax highlighting is one of EPP's greatest strengths. And Version 7 has taken this to a whole 'nother level with generalized bracketing highlighting. You can independently define any number of matching opening and closing brackets using JGSoft's regular expression syntax and the syntax scheme editing program. You can set the editor to highlight the innermost matching brackets which light up whenever the cursor is anywhere between them. You can jump back and forth between open and close brackets with CTRL+] and you can select everything between them with CTRL+[. And as I mentioned in the opening post, EPP recognizes and handles HTML/XML tags as brackets too. Very handy for navigating (and validating/correcting matching brackets).

If you are into regular expressions, I've written some modified syntax highlighter schemes (for Javascript and PHP/PCRE syntax) which provide bracketing highlighting while editing the regular expressions themselves. When editing a regex, its pretty handy to be able to see the current level of parentheses (and verify their proper matching).

And it looks like Jan is offering a free trial this time around, so you don't have to purchase it to give it a go.

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General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 7 - released
« on: May 16, 2011, 01:51 PM »
EditPad Pro Version 7 released today! I've been beta testing this for the last several months and can attest to its stability and functionality.

Best text editor... ever! (imho)

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I recommend ninotech pathcopy (version 4 was the latest). Its small, simple and non-obtrusive. Unfortunately the original website is gone (http://www.image.dk/~ninotech) and I don't think it is being maintained: I've attached a zip containing version 4 (pathc400.zip - 156KB, MD5 = 7268A246B430375908B849491C160958).

Very handy.

Edit: Oops, I see the previous link recommends the same...

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Oh yeah, and don't forget about: JSLint by Douglas Crockford.

This free tool is easily integrated into an editor/IDE. (Finds lots of stupid syntax errors.)

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If they really want to know JavaScript (in the Neo: "I know Kung-Fu!" sense), then the IDE/Editor is of only secondary concern to actually learning the language! There are many good books on JS, but the best one IMHO (if you only get one), is JavaScript the Definitive Guide by David Flanagan. And guess what? There is a brand new edition about to come out! (looks like May) It's going to cover all the new HTML5 hoopla.

Also recommended are:
I really like Jeremy Keith's work in particular (very clear writing style) and "DOM scripting" is an excellent first book. It is a quick read which covers important best practices including the notions of progressive enhancement and graceful degradation. His follow-up "Bulletproof Ajax" extends these concepts to the world of Ajax as he presents his notion of "Hijax". (i.e. A site should work just fine even when Javascript is turned off.)

Regarding the IDE, I'm no expert, but I just use a plain old text editor (EditPadPro) and debug using Opera's built-in Dragonfly JavaScript debugger (which I prefer over FireBug). And of course, I always keep a copy of "The Definitive Guide" within arms reach!

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@steeladept: Thanks for the excellent review!

I tried VirtualBox with Win98 but it keeps crashing on me. I seem to remember somewhere hearing that VMware handles the old windows versions better. Yes? No?

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First thing to run/check is <?php phpinfo(); ?>

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Opera 11 still has it.

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I just wanted to bump this thread again in case anyone had new information or discoveries.
I have. Check out YII.

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C#- C-shmardt!

Give me assembler, or give me death! ;)

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Deus Ex - Best - game - ever!

(But be sure to install the patch and edit the ini files so that you can play it w/o the CD.)

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ZTreeWin
+1
Most powerful file manager - ever.

Sets the gold standard for single-keystroke power commands. (Note that Explorer owes its left pane tree structure design to this program's predecessor: XTree.)

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Zeus Lite is a free editor for Windows:

    http://www.zeusedit.com/lite

It has configurable syntax highlighting, column marking, regexp, proper macro scripting (ie editable), ftp editing, user defined keyboard mappings etc.
-Jussi Jumppanen (November 22, 2010, 10:35 PM)
I looked at Zeus a while back but as I recall it did not support the more advanced Perl-style regex syntax. What regex engine does it use?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why the aversion to .NET Frameworks?
« on: November 17, 2010, 12:45 PM »
... Especially people clinging on to C (and using the insecure libc functions) really shouldn't be doing any sort of networked code, please. ...

You mean people writing such non-networked code as; Linux, Apache and PHP? (all of which are still "clinging" to straight C).

Truth is, C (and asm) simply can't be beat for systems level programming where size and speed (i.e. performance) really matter.

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... I assume that's a only a feature of Pro rather than Lite. ...

Good assumption. I just checked and the Lite version of EditPad does NOT support the WS keyboard emulation. However, the new EPP7 beta version does continue to support this feature.

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Actually, the WS emulation is pretty full-featured (including the Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+S etc). From the EPP6 help file...
Wordstar Navigation Keys
EditPad Pro supports the classic for people who are used to them.  WordStar is an old word processor that used Ctrl+Letter key combinations to navigate through the document.  WordStar was created at a time when most keyboards did not yet have separate arrow key blocks.  Note that many of these navigation keys conflict with standard Windows shortcut keys.  E.g. Ctrl+S is the standard Windows shortcut for File|Save.  In WordStar, Ctrl+S moves the text cursor one position to the left, just like the left arrow key.

You can enable the WordStar navigation keys in the Keyboard Preferences.  When enabled, they are recognized by every full text editor control in EditPad, such as the main editor, the search box, the replace box, the clip editor, etc.

The shortcuts with Ctrl+Q are two-key combinations.  First, press Ctrl+Q.  Then release the Q key and press the second letter in the key combination.  Whether you press Ctrl along with the second key or not makes no difference.

Cursor movement keys
Key combination Action
Ctrl+S Moves the text cursor one position to the left.
Ctrl+D Moves the text cursor one position to the right.
Ctrl+E Moves the text cursor one line upward.
Ctrl+X Moves the text cursor one line downward.
Ctrl+A Moves the text cursor to the start of the previous word or the end of the previous line, whichever is closer.
Ctrl+F Moves the text cursor to the start of the next line or the end of the current line, whichever is closer.
Ctrl+R Moves the text cursor up an entire screen.
Ctrl+C Moves the text cursor down an entire screen.
Ctrl+W Scroll down one line.  Cursor moves up one line unless it is already at the top (configurable).
Ctrl+Z Scroll up one line.  Cursor moves down one line unless it is already at the top (configurable).
Ctrl+Q, S Moves the text cursor to the beginning of the line (configurable).
Ctrl+Q, D Moves the text cursor to the end of the line.
Ctrl+Q, E Moves the text cursor to the top of the screen.
Ctrl+Q, X Moves the text cursor to the bottom of the screen.
Ctrl+Q, R Moves the text cursor to the start of the file.
Ctrl+Q, C Moves the text cursor to the end of the file.

Editing commands
Ctrl+I Insert a tab character.
Ctrl+N Inserts a line break.
Ctrl+G Deletes the character to the right of the text cursor.
Ctrl+H Deletes the character to the left of the text cursor.
Ctrl+T Deletes the part of the current word to the right of the text cursor.  If the cursor is not on a word, all characters to the right of the cursor up to the start of the next word are deleted.
Ctrl+Q, Y All the text on the current line to the right of the text cursor is deleted.
Ctrl+Q, T All the text on the current line to the left of the text cursor is deleted.
Ctrl+V Toggles between insert and overwrite mode.
-EditPadPro

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... If I still had to write a lot of text, though, I'd just go back to my DOS editor, VDE, because it's WordStar-style. ...

EditPad-Pro has a one-click setting for wordstar key bindings. (Don't know about the free EditPad-lite version however.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: After re-installing XP - what?
« on: November 11, 2010, 06:12 PM »
You may want to try out one of the virtual PC softwares such as VirtualBox (which is free). Each virtual PC you create (which can have any major operating system you would like installed) is completely isolated and you can be very brave playing around with it. If it crashes or catches a virus, no problem - just reset it back to its original fresh install state.

I have very limited experience with this technology so far but I know others who swear by this method. (I've been playing around with VirtualBox recently.)

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That, and there are two different flash programs needing update - the one for IE and the one for FF and Opera. The auto-update program gets its claws into the very heart of the OS occasionally running its pop-up during the computer boot process. Also, flash installs itself not into \Program Files\ like a regular app, but rather into the \Windows\system32\Macromed folder.

I hate adobe.

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General Software Discussion / Re: graphs software
« on: October 24, 2010, 12:17 PM »
Whenever I need to graph something I reach for a spreadsheet. e.g. OpenOffice Calc.  The Calc program offers quite a few chart types: (e.g. column, bar, pie, area, line, XY scatter, Net, stock, column and line.) It takes a little bit of effort to learn how to get the graph looking like you want, but the results are pretty good. However, getting a decent .PNG file requires some trickery: long-story-short - first export the spreadsheet document as a PDF file then use a screen capture program to capture the image in the resolution you need by using the zoom function in the PDF display program. Below is an x-y line graph I threw together recently for some work I was doing over on the Drupal project...
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c253/ridge-runner/SCREENSHOTS/drupal_static_executions_times.png

However, I understand that there is a new (better) fork of the OpenOffice project, since Oracle aquired Sun...
But as mouser suggested, there are probably better alternatives.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MD5Hash 2.8
« on: October 19, 2010, 12:37 PM »
Regarding the topic of file hash utilities, have you looked at HASHTAB?

It is one of the most useful programs I've come across in a long time. Worth a look-see.

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General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 7-BETA
« on: October 14, 2010, 11:22 AM »
...and the Magic version requires no RegEx syntax knowledge! All the power of RegEx without the pain.
Regex is like a very powerful complex weapon - you better learn precisely how it operates and use it very carefully or you will shoot your foot off!

The only guaranteed way to use regex safely and effectively is to spend the time it takes to really learn them. For that, there is: Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl. I can honestly say that this is the most useful book I have ever read. (I was a software engineer for 20 somthing years before I took the plunge into regex - reading this book (4 times so far), has literally changed my life very much for the better.)

I use RegexBuddy all the time but have no need for the RegexMagic product.

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