[thelist] Giant Text Editor Post (was PC app resembles BBEdit?)

McCreath_David wrote:
> The difference that I've found between HomeSite and BBEdit is that HomeSite
> is pretty Web-specific. BBEdit was originally developed as an extensible
> text editor, which made it perfect for HTML coding, and I would guess that
> HTML coders account for the vast majority of BareBones' sales.
> 
> HOWEVER...if you're looking for a text editor and not just something to work
> on web pages with, you might look at TextPad. I been meaning to for a while
> because I know someone who loves it, but since I'm doing most of my work on
> a Mac, I haven't taken the time.
> 
> http://www.textpad.com/
> 
> Anybody else have experience with it?

Love it - use it everyday and all the time at work. Block selected,
regular expressions, color coding, slim footprint, multiple file
handling good. Killer program.
[Apps always open: Outlook, Netscape 4.7, IE5, Textpad, Tera Term Pro.]

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Scott Dexter wrote:
> TextPad rocks.
<snip>
> it has become our defacto text editor around here, competing even with emacs

Yeah - at my new gig I was stunned that all the Engineers used either vi
or TextPad or both. One guy used a unix editor called "joe" - which is a
cool little editor in its own right.

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".rob" wrote:
> I'm on a Mac now and lovin' BBEdit, but for PC I'd have to recomment
> UltraEdit if you're hand-coding. Must admit that I haven't used HomeSite
> much but love the way UltraEdit works.
> 
> I've seen it mentioned on thelist before so someone will be able to back me
> up on this. It's $30US and available from (funnily enough)
> http://www.ultraedit.com

Dittos on this one as well -- VERY strong editor for the PC. I found
it's search and replace dialogue less friendly than textpad though. :-\

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Wolfgang Bromberger wrote:
> or even better (IMHO)
> is ultraedit @
> ultraedit.com
> this one has even CF tags.

Textpad has extensibility through adding tag libraries: there are some
for cold fusion stuff as well -- not being a CF user, I've not used them
- but the HTML and JavaScript libraries are pretty  cool.
http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/cliplibs.html

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"Stevens, Sharon" wrote:
> Homesite is the PC *version* of BBEdit

Actually - they're from different companies altogether -- the confusion
comes out the fact that Dreamweaver is bundled with BBEdit on the Mac
and with HomeSite on the PC -- making folks think they're the same --
they are NOT. Just a clarification there.
http://www.allaire.com/products/homesite/index.cfm

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Another note on editors - over the holidays I was on a slow modem
connection and wanted a slim replacement for Windows NotePad -- and I
remembered the first good editor I used for web pages - EditPad -- 300k
and it works well! Damn I love that editor. Multi-file replacements,
nice tabbed interface, and it's postcardware.

Next time you need a Windows replacement editor that doesn't suck and
you need to download it FAST - try EditPad.
http://www.jgsoft.com/editpad.html
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Thanks for listening...

	Joe
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