RIP UltraEdit
When you have the right tools in hand, you can get your work done faster. I'm in love with the new version of PSPad. Dunno if it's going to replace Metapad as 'Notepad' on my system, but I'm certainly going to start using this sucker for all of my text file editing. TopStyle will still remain my default CSS editor, though. To the developer(s) of PSPad: don't stop.
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13 Comments
Anonymous
May 17th, 2004
at 10:32am
Take a look at Notepad2 (http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html)
Anonymous
May 17th, 2004
at 12:51pm
I had a look at PSPad and it is nice but it isn't an UltraEdit killer. UltraEdit is like TopStyle, light years ahead of the rest.
Anonymous
May 17th, 2004
at 7:18pm
For web editing, I have found nothing better than EditPlus (www.editplus.com). So many great features (favorite being Ctrl+Shift+S to save AND upload to the FTP site and dir of your choice)… every web programmer should give it a shot
Anonymous
May 18th, 2004
at 1:25am
The search for the perfect text editor is the Gnomie Holy Grail. All I can do is point you in the direction of Helios' TextPad (http://www.textpad.com/) and wish you luck… :D
Anonymous
May 18th, 2004
at 8:08am
PSPad is nice, but it's not as advanced as NoteTab Pro, and certainly doesn't have the power of UltraEdit. PSPad choked on 7, 10, and 11Mb files in word wrap mode whereas UltraEdit opens a 500Mb file in less than three seconds. EditPlus is far more customizable than PSPad, but worst of all, PSPad does not allow variable-width fonts. That alone makes it unusable for a large segment of users who prefer to use Frutiger, Verdana, or any screen font rather than dirty old Courier New. But this seems to be more fanfare for freeware than whether it's better than the others. Besides, what are you doing using MetaPad, man?!
techknight
May 18th, 2006
at 10:45pm
Now I am not sure you have tried Notepad++, this is rich and quick which many paid softwares are not.
Check it out here:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
techknight
May 18th, 2006
at 10:47pm
Try Notepad++ this is a rich, quick and powerful editor which many paid applications are not!
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Chris
May 20th, 2006
at 12:40pm
PSPad is still amazing. :)
My Favorite Free Text Editor ~ Windows Fanatics
October 10th, 2006
at 10:46pm
[...] PSPad is my favorite text editor – ever. I’ve even replaced all NOTEPAD.EXE calls with it. I’ve written about PSPad before with RIP UltraEdit and Notepad Wars. Try it – you’ll love it. [...]
David
October 20th, 2007
at 9:50am
you guys are retarded pspad not only contains more than any other editor does but in a gui format and is free. Well maybe it doesn’t beat unix’s VI but what does. Anywho dont post crap if you dont know what your talking about
Dan
July 9th, 2008
at 9:21am
I tried PSPad for about a minute. I went to try to do a column edit, but I could only do a column select, what gives?? Also, I really like the usability of regular expressions in UltraEdit. I haven’t seen other editor do as good a job..
Fede
September 20th, 2008
at 5:40am
I use editplus and pspad. Also gedit. I like reformat button on pspad to generate clean html and css files.
Brian
August 11th, 2009
at 11:44pm
I use NaviCoder editor. It’s free and load very fast. I think it’s another alternative.