Comments on: Programmers Notepad http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/01/13/programmers-notepad/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:20:45 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/01/13/programmers-notepad/comment-page-1/#comment-611 Anonymous Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:11:19 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/01/13/programmers-notepad/#comment-611 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! 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!

]]> By: Anonymous http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/01/13/programmers-notepad/comment-page-1/#comment-610 Anonymous Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:21:53 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/01/13/programmers-notepad/#comment-610 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 I use an old, very outdated "Programmers File Editor" which lets you do something like Replace "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 <a><b><c> to <a> <b> <c> [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... 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 I use an old, very outdated “Programmers File Editor” which lets you do something like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…

]]> By: breichelt http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/01/13/programmers-notepad/comment-page-1/#comment-609 breichelt Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:29:45 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/01/13/programmers-notepad/#comment-609 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 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

]]> By: Anonymous http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/01/13/programmers-notepad/comment-page-1/#comment-608 Anonymous Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:53:32 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/01/13/programmers-notepad/#comment-608 ...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 …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

]]> By: Anonymous http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/01/13/programmers-notepad/comment-page-1/#comment-607 Anonymous Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:19:44 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/01/13/programmers-notepad/#comment-607 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 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

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