Notepad ++
Submitted by todd on Sun, 2006-11-19 11:08
Notepad++ is an Open Source text editor for Microsoft Windows. It is so much better than Microsoft's Notepad (which has not been changed since its Windows 1.0 incarnation in the 1980s as far as I can tell), that you should run to install Notepad++ and at least test it out. It can open multiple documents, view two documents simultaneously, has syntax highlighting (for programmers), and many more useful features.
Like all Scintilla-based
Like all Scintilla-based editors, the regular expression support is awful.
I mostly agree with your
I mostly agree with your comment. It is very frustrating that all my RE knowledge from vi, PERL and sed seems not to work.
On the other side, once you manage to make it work, it does it quite nicely.
But definitely a must to improve.
I am still searching for another compact, open source,advanced graphical editor for Windows. I usually do fine with WinElvis, but I would like something that does not require so many configuration files and so on...
I believe Notepad++ lacks
I believe Notepad++ lacks one feature I'd really like: word count.
That was an easy
That was an easy one:
Plugins > TextFX Tools > Word Count
problem is that - apparently
problem is that - apparently - you can't bind wordcount to a specific keyboard shortcut, which is too bad...
Go to Settings and Short-Cut
Go to Settings and Short-Cut Allocation (or whatever it is in English) -> Plug-In Commands, look for WordCount, it's half-way down. Pick a shortcut that hasn't been used yet (or delete it from another command).
:)