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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors
« Last post by superboyac on April 30, 2009, 04:23 AM »OK, I just tried EmEditor...it is REALLY fast. The fastest one I've tried as far as loading. I like it a lot.
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I've been using Surfulator but I'm wondering if Evernote, either v2.2. or v3, is quicker to load. Any thoughts on that, superboyac?My data is not that large (~20 MB) so I don't know how much help I can be. I always thought Evernote 2.2 was a pretty fast application. I haven't used Surfulator for a while, but I don't remember speed being an issue there either. Overall, I would say Evernote is faster.-nudone (April 28, 2009, 03:02 AM)
I hope my post doesn't come across as a bunch of complaints. It's fun to juggle all those editors and discover what they can do - and the Grid view in Oxygen (pictured in one of the screenshots) is truly a sci-fi kind of beauty.Not at all! I loved the post, very nicely said. I'm just like you as far as software goes, I want the most efficient program possible and time is money. All software is basically a toolbox to make life more productive and help you gain time for things that are truly human functions.-tranglos (April 27, 2009, 07:28 PM)
Hey, I'm not a (real) programmer, either! I certanly don't use text editors for programming. It doesn't matter what you use a text editor for. In fact I see too many features in text editors that are geared towards coding, as if the authors of text editors were all vying for the same audience, while there isn't always enough attention paid to other kinds of use.Could you tell me what you use a text editor for if not for programming? If that's true, then i'm in the same situation as yourself. But I don't know what features to look for in a text editor. And i feel like everyone else that talks about text editors focuses on the programming, so i never can relate. So, I'm interested in what you are looking for. Once i understand, I can help you find a program that may satisfy you.-tranglos (April 27, 2009, 04:27 PM)
I'll consider you a programmer. Keynote was one of the very first programs that got me started on this whole obsession with software.Really? Aren't you the author of the late, great Keynote? i wrote a eulogy about you a while back.-superboyac (April 27, 2009, 05:08 PM)
Guilty as charged. But I'm not a real programmer just like I'm not a real dancer even though I can dance, kind of. I am constantly amazed at the number of things that real programmers know and I have no idea about-tranglos (April 27, 2009, 05:19 PM)
Hey, I'm not a (real) programmer, either! I certanly don't use text editors for programming. It doesn't matter what you use a text editor for. In fact I see too many features in text editors that are geared towards coding, as if the authors of text editors were all vying for the same audience, while there isn't always enough attention paid to other kinds of use.Really? Aren't you the author of the late, great Keynote? i wrote a eulogy about you a while back.
Meanwhile, programmers will probably tend to use specialized IDEs (Visual Studio, CodeGear Name-of-the-Year, Eclipse, etc). The times where you could display line numbers and invoke a compiler and call it an editor for programmers are long, long gone.
The "e" editor is interesting. I tried it some time ago, too early perhaps - it didn't even have any of the clipboard commands you expect in the right-click menu. And I don't know anything about what makes TextMate so great, so their selling point (the "bundles") remains somewhat enigmatic to me. At the time it seemed to have a long way to catch up with the de-facto standard editing features you expect to have in an editor, but when it grows up I'd love to try it again.-tranglos (April 27, 2009, 04:27 PM)
Tuck's suggestion to hit escape should work, or you can hit the down arrow.ok...I don't know anyway. So if you press down, the searching stops? I think I knew that...that's cool. Works for me.
Superboy, i'm not sure people would like having to press a key to search further..-mouser (April 27, 2009, 11:09 AM)
Pressing 'Esc' should stop the search.I don't think that quite addresses the problem.-TucknDar (April 27, 2009, 08:31 AM)
Awesome! I still have to try it out when I get home...Would it be difficult to just do it in the trout player? because all the controls and stuff are already in there...keyboard shortcuts, playlist, drag/drop support.-superboyac (April 22, 2009, 11:36 AM)
Nah, not difficult. Grab the latest build (see my sig); it should do gapless looping now.-skwire (April 23, 2009, 03:16 AM)
2all interestedhe's pretty generous, isn't he. First, his license is remarkably flexible as far as using it on multiple computers. Second, it's a real lifetime license. Third, the program is already pretty cheap.
I've contacted an author about discount and he couldn't agree for that but... he offered 10 free licences for DC members instead.
I think some kind of contest will start with the beginning of May-fenixproductions (April 23, 2009, 07:33 AM)
Try Looper...it's fairly minimal at this point but it ought to get the job done for you. If it's along the lines of what you had in mind, let me know, and I'll clean it up a bit.I think that works...I don't have a drum loop here at work to tell for sure. I can write back later.
(see attachment in previous post)-skwire (April 22, 2009, 07:59 AM)
Because FARR and LBC are both well suited to act as front-ends to a portable USB drive and other applications, i wonder if it might make sense to release a preconfigured non-install version of FARR+LBC that work together like a front end for a usb drive. It would be preconfigured to show applications found just like portable apps launcher does.Oh...hell...yeah!-mouser (April 21, 2009, 03:44 PM)
