Whats your favourite text editor?

[Ishtim]

nedit / gedit

[pfelelep]

Notepad2....

[pfelelep]

Originally Posted by pfelelep

Notepad2....

BTW: to replace win's notepad by notepad2, you have to use some kind of ninja's trick:

http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/faq.html#Q28

Q: How do I replace notepad under Windows XP?

A: System File Protection is in full effect.

You can try the following to get around System File Protection. Be very quick or XP will replace the file and it won't work. Make sure you don't have the WinXP CD-ROM in your drive!
Copy metapad renamed as Notepad.exe to the clipboard.
Go to C:\WINDOWS\System32\dllcache (NB: in XP SP2 this has changed to C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386)
Paste the file there.
Go to C:\WINDOWS\System32 (using Backspace)
Paste the file there.
QUICKLY! Go back to C:\WINDOWS (another Backspace) and paste the file there.

If you have done this correctly, a message should pop up saying that a bad version of a Windows System file has been installed. Make sure you select 'Keep this file' or a similar option. If it doesn't work, keep trying, because it will. Just do the three pastes very fast.


A variation on the method above follows (submitted by Samutz):

I found another way to replace notepad with metapad that doesn't require you to work too fast. I made a copy of metapad.exe called notepad.exe, then made a batch file with the following commands:
copy /-y notepad.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\dllcache
copy /-y notepad.exe C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
copy /-y notepad.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32
copy /-y notepad.exe C:\WINDOWS

Then I saved it as copy.bat and ran it. It prompts for overwrite for each file, but all you have to hit is Y and Enter a few times. I find it much easier than trying to flip through folders as fast as I can to paste it before Windows replaces it.

[hyper_raider]

Originally Posted by djspinnet

Ahem.

Vi or Vim?

I trust you realize they're different and on many modern systems, vi is aliased to vim

I for one can't stand using vi for longer than 10 minutes. But vim.. yes, even on my sweet little powerbook with all the fancy text editors, I still use vim almost every other day.

TextMate's my other favourite.

Yeap me knows i still think everyone should learn vi instead of those fancy text editors.

I for one cant stand emacs, have no idea what how to use it. Although the key strokes are a lot like GNU screen

[peaz]

Originally Posted by djspinnet

Altova XMLSpy.

Although you have to pay thru your nose for it

Yup... that's the best there is. But hahha super expensive

But this one looks interesting too:
ML Marker: http://symbolclick.com/

As for my fav text editor? I'd have to say Ultraedit.

[djspinnet]

Originally Posted by hyper_raider

Yeap me knows i still think everyone should learn vi instead of those fancy text editors.

I for one cant stand emacs, have no idea what how to use it. Although the key strokes are a lot like GNU screen

Heh yeah, I love vi too, but I love vim better. emacs.. grr, just can't get used to Ctrl-blah Ctrl-blah all the time. Just to exit is Ctrl-X Ctrl-C and goodness knows what other complicated Ctrl-combos, wheras vi is simple :<something> for almost everything

[hyper_raider]

Originally Posted by djspinnet

Heh yeah, I love vi too, but I love vim better. emacs.. grr, just can't get used to Ctrl-blah Ctrl-blah all the time. Just to exit is Ctrl-X Ctrl-C and goodness knows what other complicated Ctrl-combos, wheras vi is simple :<something> for almost everything

Exactly what i was thinking, i need to start configuring my key maps in my vimrc file, still havent gotten to that...too lazy