Notepad

[Solari]

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]

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

 

[Stormrider]

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

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

 

[Glaucus]

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]

thats what I was looking for

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

 

[PuG106]

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]

TextPad

http://www.textpad.com/

Very good tool. Supports custom syntax highlighting for languages.

Notepad++ does also look rather good.

 

[Guru]

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

 

[Solari]

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]

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

Install cygwin?

 

[Solari]

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]

notepad2 seves me well

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

 

[Whoop]

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]

Another vote for Notepad++

Love it and it makes my life much eassier

 

[IAmATeaf]

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]

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.