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by johncurrey

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Do anyone have a text editor that they use and would recommend. Notepad and Wordpad are limited. I currently use shareware called Programmers File Editor, but am displease with the macro facilities and other features (like no Favorites folder).

Thanks.

JC

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by dlinuxd

VIM is an extremely full featured editor. It will take a few hours to learn, but includes indent and syntax highlighting/checking for nearly every programming language, macros, search and replace, and much, much, more. Check it out at www.vim.org. Do the tutorial before jumping in.

by coopachi

I would recommend a package called Ultra Edit. It has some very nice features especially when dealing with coordinate files downloaded from a data collector. It is also pretty inexpensive.
www.idmcomp.com

by ebob

From JGSoft.com. I have used ...Pro exclusively for the past couple of years. It's a great product. You can try the "free" version, or drop a couple of bucks/pounds/denaro/whatever and get lifetime upgrades.

by ian-catchpole

We have a corporate license for Textpad, but you can get a single user license for $27. It's got more macro facilities than I could ever use - and has built-in Browser capability for quick-testing of HTML code. There's a free evauluation download at:

http://www.textpad.com

Try it!

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