Notepad is argued to be the best thing to create a website, if you agree with this 1. you run windows and 2. your a great coder. But if you've dappled in the lazy side you know about Dreamweaver, and that it cost a rediculus aamount of money, and its coding window, wonderful thing, well that window is avavible on the net for free it is called simply
Notepad2
it is that coding window, and some little snipts, but basically it has the two most need coding tools that notepad lacks
Line numbers and
Color Coding
you must admit they help alot. if you know of PFE (program File editor that is discountinued) then this is the thing for you. I highly remmend it, it color codes for more languages than i now from C to ASP down to little CSS, XML and the gaint that is HTML. it is a Most have for a webmaster or a coder of any type!
sweet! Can you please give the link? Or maybe I should look it up. Thanks. I could use this for a lot of things. C++,SDL,HTML,CSS oh this is good.
I actually use Notepad++, wich is open-source and has a wide variety of advantages over the Notepad that ships with Windows. Notepad2 is freeware, im not sure if it is opensourced it may be though.
as your subject header, is notepad avaible to upgrade!?... just a stupid question from me 
i use crimson editor. its free and colors your text based on the kind of code it is. for instance, if you are editing a php file, it will color code based on its built-in library of php functions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Editor
http://crimsoneditor.com
i have 2 problems w/ the program:
1. it only runs on windows
2. it is closed-source
im looking forward to seeing emerald editor. | Panthrowzay wrote: |
Notepad is argued to be the best thing to create a website, if you agree with this 1. you run windows and 2. your a great coder. But if you've dappled in the lazy side you know about Dreamweaver, and that it cost a rediculus aamount of money, and its coding window, wonderful thing, well that window is avavible on the net for free it is called simply
Notepad2
it is that coding window, and some little snipts, but basically it has the two most need coding tools that notepad lacks
Line numbers and
Color Coding
you must admit they help alot. if you know of PFE (program File editor that is discountinued) then this is the thing for you. I highly remmend it, it color codes for more languages than i now from C to ASP down to little CSS, XML and the gaint that is HTML. it is a Most have for a webmaster or a coder of any type! |
Obviously you are comparing it with the native Windows Notepad. But do you know whether it is any better than GVim? My brother installed it in our home computer. I know he uses it from the prompt and I use it within Windows, which is the "easy" way. You can get it from Vim.ORGNotepad upgrade is free for anyone?
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| Notepad upgrade is free for anyone? |
Just a better replacement for Windows Notepad. A lot of these are free. There are some that are commercial. | Panthrowzay wrote: |
Notepad2
it is that coding window, and some little snipts, but basically it has the two most need coding tools that notepad lacks
Line numbers and
Color Coding
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There is Easy Coder too. You can find it here. There is an English section in this site.I downloaded Easy Coder but it wasn't to my liking. I still prefer Ultra Edit. It is a straight-forward programming editor, simple but very functional. i like notepad the best even though it is simple but it does need more options
GVim suffices for me if I need to edit text files. It has everything stated with notepad 2 but it does me a little better with its text interface.
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| I actually use Notepad++, wich is open-source and has a wide variety of advantages over the Notepad that ships with Windows. |
Nice, I though that only our prof is forcing us to use it. and yes it has a wide variety of advantages against the plain old notepad. like color coding, line number, and sometimes I use it for coding our C++ programs sadly it doesnt compile it. | nondormo wrote: |
Obviously you are comparing it with the native Windows Notepad. But do you know whether it is any better than GVim? My brother installed it in our home computer. I know he uses it from the prompt and I use it within Windows, which is the "easy" way. You can get it from Vim.ORG |
I have Vim and am using it. It is however difficult to use when you are working with multiple documents. In this sense, an editor with an MDI interface is better. That is why I'd prefer EditPlus or even Ultra-Edit. There are free editors that are like the ones I mentioned above. The first to come to mind is the Crimson Editor. | webgeek wrote: |
| nondormo wrote: |
Obviously you are comparing it with the native Windows Notepad. But do you know whether it is any better than GVim? My brother installed it in our home computer. I know he uses it from the prompt and I use it within Windows, which is the "easy" way. You can get it from Vim.ORG |
I have Vim and am using it. It is however difficult to use when you are working with multiple documents. In this sense, an editor with an MDI interface is better. That is why I'd prefer EditPlus or even Ultra-Edit. There are free editors that are like the ones I mentioned above. The first to come to mind is the Crimson Editor. |
There is a Gvim distribution called Cream and it has an MDI interface.
It can be downloaded from http://cream.sourceforge.netI must agree that Cream Vim looks good. But it does not show you the contents of a project directory.
Ultra edit however is a commercial software, but there must be a freeware text editor available that also has that feature. Crimson editor is the only one I can think of at the moment. I, personnaly, think it's better to use language specific editor. It will allow editor developer to concntrate on what is really required and thus helps to create better editor.
I don't know about you guys, but
1. if you wish to write javascript or html or css
2. and you want the enhanced notepad-like editors
3. but you wish to have the free ones
try the free HTML editors like
AceHTML Free http://visicommedia.com or
CoffeeCup Free http://www.coffeecup.com
Both of those editors have panels that allow you a view to the directory of your computer and they allow you to have a browser preview of the page you are working on (toggle on-off).
However, if you wish to write java or c++ and have them compiled from within the editor, then you'll have to get one of those nice commercial programmer's editors. Personally, I use EditPad Pro - http://www.editpadpro.com/ - there's a free version too (EditPad Lite, at the same URL), but its less feature-rich than the Pro version.
The main reason I use it is for the syntax highlighting.. since I started HTML coding using a basic text editor, it's what I always end up going back to.
TextPad (http://www.textpad.com/) is also a popular choice. I used both Notepad2 and Notepad++ before, and prefer the latter.
In some case i use PSPad, is quite a good editor too
I use Proton. Basically the same as Notpad++ and all the others that do syntax highlighting. Proton will also run from your USB thumbdrive. The download page is in German but the support files of Proton include an English language file. | Karrde wrote: |
Personally, I use EditPad Pro - http://www.editpadpro.com/ - there's a free version too (EditPad Lite, at the same URL), but its less feature-rich than the Pro version.
The main reason I use it is for the syntax highlighting.. since I started HTML coding using a basic text editor, it's what I always end up going back to.
TextPad (http://www.textpad.com/) is also a popular choice. |
EditPad Pro and TextPad are both commercial editors. PsPad is a free editor and it has features that outstrip both the above. For me, the best feature that PsPad has is the internal preview browser that allows one to preview a webpage in three resolutions.
Apart from this it is MDI enabled and has an explorer panel.MetaPad.
If all you want is a Notepad replacement, MetaPad isn't too bad.
It's not really fancy, but it does have more features than NotePad.
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* Persistent window placement
* Dirty file notification
* Intelligent Find and Replace
* External viewer support (e.g. web browser)
* Usable accelerator keys (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+N, etc.)
* Dual customizable font support
* Optional Quick Exit (Esc key)
* Configurable tab stop setting
* Auto-indent mode
* Go to Line/Column
* Seamless UNIX text file support
* Block indent and unindent (Tab, Shift+Tab)
* Recent files list
* WYSIWYG printing
* Snazzy status bar & funky toolbar
* No file size limit! (under Win9x)
* Hyperlink support
* User interface language plugins
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I too am for notepad++
Haven't really tried a lot of others yet, but I do very much how it handles tabs, syntax highlighting and the ability to collapse/restore sections of code!
Notepad++ is much better software, and more widely used 
so...
PsPad
Crimson Editor
NotePad++
are the winners it would seem.
According to this article by Gizmo (http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm#23) Notepad ++ and EditPad Lite are the best free notepad replacements. The article also lists as "best free HTML editors" NVu and Evrsoft's 1stPage (the original free version) I am observing how two free notepad replacements are being developed
Jan Fiala's PsPad and Rijkaard Jansen's RJ TextEdit. Both look good and promising. The RJ-TextEdit comes with a lot of highlighters. And it is skinnable too. I acctually got Dreamweaver and the rest of Macromedia suite 8 for free...of course not leagally but do big companies really need more money? I used notepad++ for a while but I really didnt like it. I prefer the full featured style of Dreamweaver. Thats just my thoughts, maybe I'll give that a try when I'm done my current project.
I use notepad for my HTML, but now im learning C, so iv been looking for a new program. I cant get some of these listed programs to work, but while searching around, i got MS Visual Web blah blah blah for free, legially, they're giving the express version of all there programing programs away for free, the 2005 versions. By they way, can anybody show me to a good C tutorial, or C++?
Have to agree. I've been using Notepad2 for over a year now and find it brilliant. It can be downloaded from http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html. It's not open source, I think it's just written by the chap on the website.
I've downloaded Notepad++, but haven't tried it yet. I'm very happy with notepad2 and probably won't change.
