Notepad

Solari · 21 Jun 2007 at 19:49

Is it me or is Notepad just useless at search and replace and other functions?

I'm sat here doing a replace on a 365kB file which is taking ages when sed on a unix box takes less than a second?

is my box borked or something?

Can't believe a Core2Duo rig can take so long at replacing a string?

Glaucus · 21 Jun 2007 at 19:50

seems good but there's a better version, hold on let me go find it.

Stormrider · 21 Jun 2007 at 19:51

try notepad++
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

and shouldn't this be in the Windows software forum?

Glaucus · 21 Jun 2007 at 19:53

Stormrider said:
try notepad++
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

and shouldn't this be in the Windows software forum?

thats what I was looking for

Stormrider · 21 Jun 2007 at 19:56

AcidHell2 said:
thats what I was looking for

- definitely my preferred notepad replacement at the moment,plus it handles loads of programming languages.

PuG106 · 21 Jun 2007 at 19:57

I use dos for find and replace, its 10 times quicker than notepad

yes i no im living in the past but hey.. it works

n3crius · 21 Jun 2007 at 19:58

TextPad

http://www.textpad.com/

Very good tool. Supports custom syntax highlighting for languages.

Notepad++ does also look rather good.

Guru · 21 Jun 2007 at 20:08

I bought one with a calculator in the front the other day :cool:

Solari · 21 Jun 2007 at 20:12

Cheers chaps, great replacements.

Excel works just as well also... d'oh, should have thought of that first

The algorithm in notepad is slower than any bastardisation I could possibly write in shell

So frustrating not having awk, sed, tr etc at home

Stormrider · 21 Jun 2007 at 20:24

Solari said:
So frustrating not having awk, sed, tr etc at home

Install cygwin?

Solari · 21 Jun 2007 at 20:30

Stormrider said:
Install cygwin?

Good point actually - I had it on the old PC, but for some reason it seems like an untidy installation to me.

I think when it comes to Vista crunch time, I will probably just install OpenSolaris seeing as I don't play games any more

bledd · 21 Jun 2007 at 23:32

notepad2 seves me well

i replaced the notepad.ex_ files on my xp disc with the notepad2 exe

Whoop · 22 Jun 2007 at 10:08

Wordpad

Does the same in my opinion without installing anything else. They both have their uses I'm just not sure what Notepads is

Whoop

TheKnat · 22 Jun 2007 at 10:31

Another vote for Notepad++

Love it and it makes my life much eassier

IAmATeaf · 22 Jun 2007 at 11:38

I use this http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/ very handy when you need to search for characters including the newline character etc... and do a replace.

whitecrook · 23 Jun 2007 at 23:05

notepad is useelss for anything more advanced than a shopping list.

I admit that I often use excel to if I have to search and replace in a text file with no notepad improvement handy.