Do you use Notepad in windows?
This one question will establish anyone’s geek factor almost at once.
- 80% of the computer using population won’t even understand the question.
These people are not geeks at all. In fact it may be that 95% of users fall at this first hurdle. - The rest will knowingly have used Notepad.
They might be geeks. - Have they used it more than, say, ten times?
Then they are ungeeks. I can’t imagine doing text editing in Notepad for any length of time. I have tried most of the alternatives, and almost the first thing I do when I get a new computer is to put one of them on, and switch file associations. - Do they care much which of the alternatives?
Then they’re the kind of sick obsessives who give us all a bad name.
Notepad!
Sensible people always carry Vedit with them wherever they go.
R
at $60 for an upgrade? Sensible people nowadays would use, something like Notetab, I think. Not that I can wean myself off ultraedit. The really odd thing is that there is nothing as simple, fast yet competent as these on linux. If O’Reilly can make money off a program, it’s too complicated for this.
Ultraedit. BBEdit is king on Macs but I have been very happy w/ultraedit for 6 years now on the Windows side…
Vim! Vim, you barbarous heathens!
(You knew it would end this way, didn’t you? That it would come to this.)
I should have know it was the one topic to get people writing in from California. Nice to see you both. Sod ethics, sod wit, sod trout, even. Let’s talk about editors.
Jedit. so nyaaah.
this may end in divorce, but i keep using notepad. i am a geek of least resistance- i would use gvim, if i could get all the way to downloading it from here. here, in this case, is very lazy indeed.
yes yes, but what does Ada use?
Notepad for quick notes, emacs for the heavy stuff.
No! No you nitwit! Editplus you hairless ape! 🙂 Just kidding there (about the hairy ape comment only :-).
Although Editplus hasn’t been updated in years, it’s still my favorite Notepad alternative. It’s small, cheap, loads fast,is rock-solid stable, and is fun to use. Plus it’s crazy extensible. Sorta 🙂
What more could an uber-geek ask for?
Windows really needs SubEthaEdit. That would rule.
Edlin.
Just for fun – oh, the afternoons fly – I had a go at edlin on XP Pro. It’s still there, but it leaves the command window in a strange mode where the path prompt forgets about long file names. I wonder if MS accepts bug reports about edlin.
I’ll see your edlin, and raise you ed on a CP/M emulator.
R
you’re bound to know: is ed more or less primitive than ex?
note that vi introduced the incredible power of two-letter commands.
TextPad if it’s Windoze :-p