I call onto you developers! What is the best textual search and replace around? I'm working with Topstyle at the moment for my web development, and the program is fantastic but the search / replace functionality is lacking (no replace in multiple files for example). I'm not switching editors though.
So I've been using various programs such as
VGrep (result window is not clear enough for me),
Windows Grep (crashes on my system - not freeware),
ReplaceEm(unweildy interface and by default makes backups of files even if they're not changed) etc.
Textcrawler is the best I found so far.
Textcrawler is freeware, has a usable but powerful interface, the results window shows the line and highlighted query inside the file as well as the filelist itself, and allows you to select which files to replace (so you could find all .htm files but only replace the term in certain files). It can also make backups of changed files. It has a few tools for Regexes too.
But it has a splash dialogue on load (guess that's fair).
There is similar functionality in programs like Notepad++ but that requires more clicks, plus even notepad's search and replace dialog is not the most usable either. (and not as good as TextCrawler).
BUT perhaps you use a better program. So I'd be interested to hear what you use and what feature you need that the program provides. Thanks.
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for a probably inferior product with inferior service that will save me about 30 pounds a month. (because I had to buy 20 gigabyte usage extra each month at 1 pound per GB).
But the site is good: it lists all kind of freebie trials/samples you can acquire by filling out forms mostly (well it did 4 years ago when i found it). It's in dutch but to appreciate the skillful appliance of the finer art of colors you don't need to read the text.