Review: EditPlus
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Editplus is a great editor and it can Search/Replace across all open files. In the Replace dialog box there is a section titles "Replace all Range" with the options: Current File, Selection or All Open Files.
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A couple of "freeware" editors I have come across which work quite well are "Context" and "PSPad".
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Edit plus is my preferred text editor.
Most of the features you did not find are actually already there:
Comments
Make a selection:
Edit > Format > line comment
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Right Click > Format > line comment
It would be nice to be able to open all files meeting some criteria at once.
Search > Find in files (Alt + s , i)
According to the help, it can, but I have never managed to get it to work...
Search and Replace across open files
I use this all the time
open up the find replace tool (ctrl + h) and check All open files (alt + o)
Find and replace within a selection is even better for template like functionality.
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Hi there,
another free editor is http://www.meybohm.de/index.html Phase 5.
Don't panic, when going to this site. Although it look like one, it isn't a hacker's site
Let me mention one more time!
For those of you who can't find an editor which can do everything you want, why not make your own one using this fantastic free control?
I''ve tried this from VB and VC. Easy to use, lightweighted, powerful and extendable as to supported languages....
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000028973
BTW, although it is common to think of text editors as simple software, it is pretty difficult to create your own one in C++. I have tried this myself, and out of this, all respect to programmers who code text editors and give them away for free !!!
Cheers,
Frank
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Frank Kalis
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I was pointed to EditPlus last year, having used TextPad before.
I wouldn't dream of using anything else now, for all the reasons that Steve Jones went through.
Two points that have always bugged me a little are:
the embedded FTP client could do with being a bit more flexible - the one in Dreamweaver is a classic example of how to get it right.
the 'Project' facility that allows you to group several files together for quick access has a bad habit of picking up anything you happen to open whilst in a project.
Oh, and whilst the files tab bar at the bottom is nice, it lacks some flexibilities - scrollability for when you have a #lot# of files on the go, and clear highlighting of the 'active' file. Much like Enterprise Manager, getting to another file can be a little tedious....
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hm ... UltraEdit is better than Edit plus ... IMHO ... I'm using UE from 6.x version and UE is my preferred editor for all programming (JScript, Java, C/C++, T-SQL, VBScript, WSH, ASP/HTML, WETM config file, etc.)
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hm ... UltraEdit is better than Edit plus ... IMHO ... I'm using UE from 6.x version and UE is my preferred editor for all programming (JScript, Java, C/C++, T-SQL, VBScript, WSH, ASP/HTML, WETM config file, etc.)IMHO, you're right!
I always return to this classic, but it worth looking around what happens.
...and maybe.. wHo knows?
Cheers,
Frank
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Frank Kalis
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Another editor that is similar to EditPlus, and way more powerful is HomeSite. It isn't free, but it's only around $60 (last I checked).
An example of one of my favorite homesite features is the ability to create custom toolbar buttons that perform whatever function you can define.
We use EditPlus in my current shop and it really makes me miss HomeSite.
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I use ultraedit for many things. Reading the scripts from ms sql server, html, and even large TEXT files [ > 25Mb] with problems of embedded characters.... for $30 best bargain on the market. Also, used this editor for Oracle package development ... 1600 lines of PLSQL just doesn't fit in notepad !
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Another editor that is similar to EditPlus, and way more powerful is HomeSite. It isn't free, but it's only around $60 (last I checked).An example of one of my favorite homesite features is the ability to create custom toolbar buttons that perform whatever function you can define.
We use EditPlus in my current shop and it really makes me miss HomeSite.
do you mean Allaire Homesite?
Isn't it bought by macromedia and merged with Dreamweaver?
Cheers,
Frank
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Frank Kalis
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
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Homesite did go to Macromedia.
I'll give Ultraedit a try and thanks for the notes on commenting in Edit Plus. Not as easy as a hot key, but pretty close.
Steve Jones
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Any one use multiedit? it's a little expensive but does a lot of stuff like open large 500mb text files and allows editing of several files at once
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I've used UltraEdit for a few years now (currently using latest version) and I love it. You can set it up to pass queries to SQLServer (or whatever) using the Tool Configuration feature. Then you can write SQL, send it to SQLServer and have the output go to a file that is also open in UltraEdit.
The site also has links to a lot of different scripts so you can set up syntax highlighting.
I have it installed on my diskonkey drive so I can use UltraEdit on any machine I'm working at.
Brett
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Personally, I like TextPad. As far as I know, it does evrything that Steve's article says EditPlus does. I couldn't find a tool for commenting a block of code, but with very little effort, I made a macro that did it for me for VBScript. There's a lot of different syntax files available, and they're simple to edit. I got one for VBScript, and edited it to work with WSH job files (added stuff for XML) and Windows Scripting Components.
I still use Query Analyzer for SQL, mostly because of the object browser thing.
James C Loesch
Edited by - jloesch on 07/21/2003 1:29:32 PM
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