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Friday, 29 August 2008 2:59 pm

Looking for a new text editor

Tuesday, 28 August 2007  

Over the last eight years I’ve been exclusively using Notetab for all my text editing needs in the Windows environment. Simple to use, really intuitive and very powerful. Great for editing multiple files too.

But lately I’ve been a bit annoyed with it’s lack of UTF-8 support, which makes editing content like the Tozovac entry in Wikipedia impossible.

As a result, I’m looking for a new text editor. It doesn’t have to be freeware but it does have to have the above features, including built-in support for UTF-8.

Any ideas?

Posted in Programming, Software, Windows by Ivan
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 six comments:

  1. Andy - Thursday, 30 August 2007 7:10 am  

    On Windows I use Notepad++, and on Linux SciTE. Both use the Scintilla text editing component. I haven't found anything better, although I stick to free or open source programs.

  2. vlado - Thursday, 30 August 2007 1:01 pm  

    Yeah... Notepad++ is definitely worth the download. Alternatively, there's always Emacs ;)

  3. Bailey - Thursday, 30 August 2007 5:58 pm  

    I used to use Notetab Light but I've switched to PSPad mainly because of it's a tabbed interface and support for projects, which makes it really useful if you use it as a programmers editor. And it does Unicode too.

  4. Idris - Monday, 3 September 2007 2:54 pm  

    How about ConTEXT by Eden Kirin? It's a programmers editor with a lighweight footprint but with many, many useful features, including Unicode.

    Give it a try, I'm sure you'll like it. And no, in case you're wandering, I'm not associated with the software in any other capacity than a user.

  5. Ivan - Monday, 3 September 2007 3:00 pm  

    Thanks for all the replies and suggestions so far, I'll look into it.

  6. renee - Friday, 22 February 2008 7:12 pm  

    Was using Super Notetab light v4 (probably an oldie) but the inability to undo more than one change was infuriating. Currently using Crimson Editor ... UTF-8 support, syntax highlighting, tabbed, searches through directories.

    Anyone know of a text editor with a compare file feature?


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