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programming and human factors
by Jeff Atwood
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The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills! Notepad2 tries to follow this principle, it's a small, fast and free text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages.Amen, brother! And don't worry, it's still relatively small at 550kb. But look at everything you get for that additional 450kb:
jEdit is a great "multi-purpose" source code editor. I've been using it for Perl, HTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS, batch files etc for years.
It's not lightweight, it's a big Java app, but it has a great plugin architecture and some useful plugins written that make it very functional.
In general, I don't see lightweight and small memory footprint as being a requirement in something you open and use all day long. But nevertheless, Notepad has a place in the world too, and having a lightweight native editor that beats notepad as your default is a good idea...
I'll have to download notepad2 and see how it works using your trick of overwriting the original notepad (after backing it up :-)
-Rob
The picture is missing! 2006-11-10
dalesmoker on November 10, 2006 9:44 AMYou all should check out notepad++ ( http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/ ) - i've found it quite useful in many applications!
Ellery Weber on November 3, 2007 2:58 AMhey i personally feel that smaller the app the cooler it is .
basically i have been owning a very slow system and everytime i need a functionality i check for the smallest,feature rich,program i could find .
tinyapps is one site i love for this matter . they find every tiny app that does the same thing .
and another text editor worth a note is WinVi , ( google for url ) , which can open really large text files and act upon em . really small and cool program .
BooTCaT on March 12, 2008 8:06 AMReplace Notepad? Heck no you barbirians! (sorry if i misspelled that) Replacing Notepad is like replacing a very fast athelete with a snail.
Calvin on April 16, 2008 9:24 AMWhy are we commenting on a nearly four year old story?
Besides, Kate is the only GUI code editor anyone needs.
Dave on April 16, 2008 11:24 AMHave you tried vim? It is just excellent and free.
http://www.vim.org/
It's not lightweight, it's a big Java app
Looking at the widgets, you can tell...
How about new notepad++
http://winguard.blogspot.com - Winguard
http://dexzone.blogspot.com - Dexzone
Notepad++ is a better replacement for classic notepad of windows.
winguard on March 2, 2009 6:29 AMIs there any blog post that CAN'T be turned into a text editor flamefest?
jEdit RULES!
Wayne on May 22, 2009 5:10 AMHis compiled version is missing as of today as well. I was able to download the latest version from the website and install it after much fuss and todo -- the instructions on this site ( http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/archive/2004/08/12/213085.aspx ) finally did it for me.
Clint Herron on February 6, 2010 9:30 PMAs a newcomer to your blog and a soon-to-be new developer graduating this spring in CS, let me just say I appreciate learning from all of your posts and getting a better feel for what it's like to actually work as a developer. Anyway, back on subject, I second the motion that you may want to look into notepad++. It's a little larger than notepad2, but it's a really great editor and I've found it to be very VERY useful.
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