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Re: Word replace - notetab light vs perl

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Oct 05, 2005 at 16:49 UTC ( [id://497673]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Word replace - notetab light vs perl

Take a look at textpad, the same 35000 line test takes less than a second, and there is no learning curve. If you can use notepad, you'll find yourself right at home texpad immediately and when you need more it, you'll probably find it on a memu somewhere and all you'll need to remember is the keyboard shortcut, but that comes quickly.

It'll cost you a one fee of $30/£16.50 if you decide to keep it, but it is well worth the cost.


Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
The "good enough" maybe good enough for the now, and perfection maybe unobtainable, but that should not preclude us from striving for perfection, when time, circumstance or desire allow.

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Re^2: Word replace - notetab light vs perl
by kiat (Vicar) on Oct 05, 2005 at 17:09 UTC
    Thanks, BrowserUk :)

    I'm quite used to NoteTab Light - I like its tab feature where you can open numerous files and then access them through the tabs. Even after you exited from the program, the tabs are kept in memory.

    The other editor I'm using is emacs (windows ver). I know only a couple of commands so at the moment it isn't particularly powerful to me.

      Textpad has tabs too, if you like them. Have them at the top, or bottom, or left or right of the screen.

      Or a selector pane if you prefer. Turn it on and off with a keystroke.

      Or both. Or Neither.

      Like I say, you'll feel right at home :)


      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      The "good enough" maybe good enough for the now, and perfection maybe unobtainable, but that should not preclude us from striving for perfection, when time, circumstance or desire allow.
Re^2: Word replace - notetab light vs perl
by SamCG (Hermit) on Oct 05, 2005 at 22:12 UTC
    I've gone through a few editors now, including my current TextPad (though I haven't used Notetab). I find ConText quite useful (lots of features, free) and UltraEdit (lots of features, $35 or so) quite good.

      I first use TextPad when I pulled a copy, 2.x I think, from the internet maybe 10 years ago when on a customers site where they wouldn't let me connect my laptop to to their precious network and they had nothing except what came installed with the OS. I was there for 6 weeks and it did everything I required of it without ever having to read the help. That's about the best recommendation I can give any piece of software and I stuck with it.

      I've tried many others. Hell, I've got 4 or 5 others I've installed in the last couple of years on this machine, but I know TextPad inside out and it gets the job done.

      I came to the conclusion that anything more programmable than it are a double-edge sword. I used TECO for 3 years in college, then EDT for two in my first programming job, and E3(ibm iou that became a non-ibm commercial product) for 6 or so after that and LPEX. Each was very programable and I expended a lot of effort in configuring and tailoring each one to my tastes.

      I found two problems with them.

      1. It is very easy to become dependant upon your editor and your configuration and become lost and frustrated when it isn't available. Especially when the chips are down and your up against some kind of deadline or crisis.
      2. It's very easy to become distracted by perfecting your configuration to solve yet another trifling problem. I can remember more than one occassion when I've expended valuable time trying to get two or more macros or custom commands to work perfectly together to solve some problem that could have been more simply solved by a few manual steps that would have taken considerably less time than it took to automate the (often once in a blue moon) task.

      My primary requirements for an editor are

      • It shouldn't get in my way or make me think about it rather than the task I am trying to perform with it.
      • It shouldn't do anything I didn't explcitely ask it to do.
      • It shouldn't leave me high and dry if my portables battery dies, or the plug gets kicked out, or dog forbid, my code crashes the system.
      • It shouldn't throw anything away. Undo is the greatest timesaver ever invented.

      You'll notice those are all "should nots" rather shoulds or musts. I reject most of the other highly rated editors on one or more of those criteria.

      If the editor succeeds in not violating those, the rest is gravey.


      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      The "good enough" maybe good enough for the now, and perfection maybe unobtainable, but that should not preclude us from striving for perfection, when time, circumstance or desire allow.

        That’s the great thing about being proficient with vi. :) Any machine you can sit down at, with any flavour of vi on it, you’re immediately productive on. Not having your perfectly tweaked config is annoying, maybe even a little painful, but it never actually sets you back. 90% of the customisation you depend on usually consists of a half-dozen configuration variables you can easily memorise anyway. (:set ai number ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 et!)

        The only criterion of yours it falls short on is not making you think about it – that is, it falls short for the first week or so. I never regretted the time I invested in getting over the initial hump, though.

        Makeshifts last the longest.

      I used ConText (0.9x) for some time. Intially, i liked it very much. I ignored the rare file corruption(s). When *somebody else* put the fact bluntly (on editor forum or newsgroup), i had to be sensible about it.

      Hopefully ConText project has solved that problem by now (it has been a long time since then) as it was/is otherwise a good editor.

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