Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows

Re:Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows by StrawberryFrog on Monday October 26, 2009 @08:17AM (#903008)

Yep, I agree. Notepad should be (and is) the simplest possible GUI text editor. All the devs that I know use either Notepad2 or Notepad++ for more complex general-purpose editing.

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Re:Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows by listic on Monday October 26, 2009 @09:07AM (#903073)

Anyone uses something other, like TextPad?

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Re:Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows by WalkingDead on Monday October 26, 2009 @09:42AM (#903143)

I am still using TextPad which I started using since 90s. But wish I could jump to something better. TextPad is now dead with no update for, what 6 years? No v.5 doesn't count as update, it's downgrade. No Unicode, only more fancy GUI.

Switching editor is really hard.

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Re:Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows by blue1 on Monday October 26, 2009 @10:45AM (#903285)

Just my experience: I have been using textpad for ages, and I am still using it (v.4.7, for the reasons you mentioned). In the meantime, however, I had to learn emacs (for Slime etc.). Now I notice that when I open textpad I begin to miss emacs features. And on emacs, I miss the fancy GUI far less than I imagined.

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Re:Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows by madh on Monday October 26, 2009 @11:53AM (#903428)

I use notepad++.

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Re:Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows by enthalpyx on Monday October 26, 2009 @01:35PM (#903671)

I'm a fan of Programmer's Notepad. http://www.pnotepad.org/

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