is there a slim text editor with a nice zoom feature?

[brotherS]

Maybe it's only me, but I'd *really* like a text editor (free and fast if possible) that offers some kind of customizable zoom feature, like Word or Firefox for example. More like Firefox, which allows to increase/decrease with "Ctrl and +"/"Ctrl and -", would be best.

Is there something like that? Maybe even with nice little features like "ESC works like Alt+F4 key combination" like win32pad (http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1000.0)?

[f0dder]

Notepad++ has some zooming with ctrl+mousewheel - dunno if it's suitable for you. Re-mappable hotkeys as well.

[Darwin]

There's a notepad editor replacement on http://www.giveawayoftheday.com today - don't know if it is any good or not as I already have ultraedit installed. It's GridinSoft Notepad Pro, more info at their homepage: http://notepad.gridinsoft.com/

PS I am finding it IMPOSSIBLE to assign text to hyperlinks these days - has there been some change?

[f0dder]

text/hyperlink works fine here, I use <url=http://blah>text</url> - with square brackets instead of angular ones, of course.

[Darwin]

hmm... let's try GiveAwayoftheDay f0dder, your notation works and is different from what I was doing in ONE way: I was using <url>=http://blah>text</url>. That extra bracket after the first url was killing me! So simple a solution to a problem that has plagued me for months!

Thanks!

[Lashiec]

GridinSoft Notepad Pro... It's not exactly top quality software if you compare it to UltraEdit, not even against PSPad... Doesn't this one have this kind of feature? Or TEDNotepad maybe. I don't have these around to tell (the closest thing to a text editor I have right now is either plain Notepad or BlueJ...)

[Nighted]

Wow, no one mentioned Notepad2. You can use the keyboard and the toolbar to zoom. Also has decent syntax schemes.

[urlwolf]

vim. You can map font sizes and window sizes to keyboard shortcuts.
Just add a map command to your vimrc (the file that contains the settings).

[jgpaiva]

vim. You can map font sizes and window sizes to keyboard shortcuts.

That's interesting, i was just now looking for something like that for vim. Unfortunatelly, couldn't find any plugin for it.

[urlwolf]

vim. You can map font sizes and window sizes to keyboard shortcuts.

That's interesting, i was just now looking for something like that for vim. Unfortunatelly, couldn't find any plugin for it.

yes, you can do things like:
set guifont=Lucida\ Console:11
where  11 is font size.

And

Code

function! Smallfonts()
	setlocal textwidth=0
	set guifont=Andale_Mono:h7:cANSI
   set columns=196
   set lines=62
endfunction

map <F5> : call Smallfonts()<CR>
[\code]

I can code with fonts that small, because I like to get as much text as possible. Actually, an editor that had a two page view (or multicolumn) would be great, I kind of fake that with two windows editing the same buffer.