Programmers Notepad
I’ve been using Notepad2 for quite some time now, after seeing it on Scott Hanselman’s list of useful tools, and I love it. The one feature that it didn’t have, however, was tabs. Whenever I have multiple text files, xml files, config files, etc. open it clutters up my taskbar, so I wanted something that could handle them all in one window, with tabs. This is how I stumbled across the Programmers Notepad.
This thing is great, its got all the stuff that Notepad2 has, and its got tabbed windows. Excellent. Still loads up fast too, cause the last thing you want is for your text editor to seem like Adobe products, heh.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on January 13, 2006 @ 11:19 am
I guess it’s time to try PN one more time, last time I tried (7/30/2004) I ended up giving up on it, as it would lock up and it had other bugs, I have been using Notepad2 too
Anonymous said,
Wrote on January 13, 2006 @ 6:53 pm
…took me longer to decide that I wanted to install it again than to give up on it… my explorer keeps hanging up, I had the hardest time creating file associations to it (impossible through windows until I did it from the program it self)… too bad
breichelt said,
Wrote on January 16, 2006 @ 9:29 am
Oh man, that sucks! I havent run into the same problems you have, Eber, but I’ll keep using it and see if it happens to me
Anonymous said,
Wrote on January 17, 2006 @ 4:21 pm
Tried it, didn’t think much of it:
The popup help that disappears if you click on the help window. WTF?
Not being able to do find/replace on things that span a line break. I use an old, very outdated “Programmers File Editor” which lets you do something like
Replace “>< " with ">\n< "
which changes something like
to
[sigh> so I’ll stick with my 1997-era notepad replacement which I got from
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/steveb/cpaap/pfe/default.htm
The page was last updated in 1999! Not the greatest, but it has capabilities I can’t live without any more…
Anonymous said,
Wrote on February 28, 2006 @ 4:11 pm
BigJim:
Multi-line support has been in for ages, the exact search and replace you describes works with the “Allow Backslash Expressions” option in the Find dialog checked.
Finally, if you see bugs, feel free to report them in the bug tracker - nobody claimed the software was perfect!