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Windows editors - do they have to be so bad?
TucknDar:
Don't know if it does all you want, but EditPadPro has a block select feature, where you press Ctrl+Shift+B to set a "start point" for your selection, then go to the end of wherever you want to select, press Ctrl+Shift+E and voilà: selected! It's not exactly what you were looking for, I realize, but at least you don't need to do all the scrolling.
-TucknDar (January 16, 2009, 03:13 PM)
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Actually, EditPadPro has something called "persistent selections" which means you can select something and don't lose selection when moving the text cursor.
Guess I still have a lot to learn about this text editor :-[
muntealb:
I've just been looking at a few more Windows editors.
I looked at (freeware) Metapad, TED Notepad (great little editor), Crimson Editor (nice), PSPad, Notetab Light, PFE, Editor2, ConTEXT, and briefly at (payware) Boxer.
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Compare this with WordStar-style editors. You drop a Start Block marker with Control-K,B (^KB). You can use ^QF Find to locate a target point, or ^QM/^Q1 to go to a bookmark - and the Start Block marker is unaffected while you do so. When you've marked what you want, you drop an End Block marker with ^KK and the block is locked as a unit. You can still whizz around the file without affecting your marked area. It only becomes unmarked when you make a deliberate action to unmark it. That's a far more efficient way than Notepad-style for handling text. True, I believe Boxer and TED Notepad both have limited work-arounds, but not as good.
Do Windows editors really have to be so bad? So much worse than my favourite WordStar-style DOS editor, VDE, at handling text?
Of course, WordStar is One True True Way for writers: here's author Robert Sawyer's manifesto on the subject.
-rjbull (January 16, 2009, 08:32 AM)
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EditPad Pro has a setting that automatically allows to use the shortcuts from Wordstar.
Options>Configure Toolbars and Menus>Keyboard Shortcuts>General Settings for Shortcuts>Use navigation keys from Wordstar>Apply Shortcuts from Wordstar
AbteriX:
www.HippoEDIT.com
* Automatic back-ups
* Bookmarks
* Edit multiple files (tabbed interface?)
* Ability to specify filters as external user tools " is planed to implement"http://forum.hippoedit.com/index.php/topic,91.0.html
I would like to suggest an option for tools
to catch the output of an command line tool
and replace the text in current open document (or the selected part)
with this output.
thanks a for a suggestion for a feature. It was already on my list, but havent time yet to do it. But definitly would do.
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http://forum.hippoedit.com/index.php/topic,134.msg476.html#msg476
But some kind of command bar, where you can enter commands from keyboard in verbal form with paramters etc is a good idea.
Especially when you would think about macro recorder etc, where such functinality would be necessary also.
And about this I can think and place into my todo
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* marking text, "Edit > Selection > Lock" and "Edit > Selection > Restore"
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www.PSPad.com
* Automatic back-ups
* Bookmarks
* Edit multiple files (tabbed interface?)
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* marking text, "F8"=Start Block, ........, "F8"=End Block and select all between
wraith808:
I wonder why some people are so obsessed with SlickEdit... it basically falls flat between a text editor and an IDE, not really knowing what it wants to be. It's too bloated for a text editor, and lacks the functionality you'd expect of a decent IDE. The pricetag certainly can't be justified when there's freeware editors like Notepad++, IDEs like Eclipse, and the free Microsoft Visual Studio Express...
-f0dder (January 16, 2009, 06:50 PM)
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I use it; I'm not obsessed with it- it is one tool in my toolbox. But when I don't feel like waiting for Visual Studio to load, and want something lighter that I can just edit/compile/check-in/out projects in that supports multiple platforms in one project, I pull it out. It also supports brief which most editors these days overlook, so that's a big plus for me.
f0dder:
I use it; I'm not obsessed with it- it is one tool in my toolbox. But when I don't feel like waiting for Visual Studio to load, and want something lighter that I can just edit/compile/check-in/out projects in that supports multiple platforms in one project, I pull it out. It also supports brief which most editors these days overlook, so that's a big plus for me.-wraith808 (January 28, 2009, 09:39 AM)
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When I test-drove SlickEdit, the difference in time between starting SE and VS was pretty irrelevant - to the point that SE felt pretty pointless to me :)
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