Comments on: Feels just like starting over

By: summervillain

summervillain — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:00:24 +0000

Good grief, I don’t even want to ask why you’re editing binary files with a text editor.

I don’t do it daily or anything, but if you have to write (or modify) code to access a binary file for some reason, it’s pretty handy.

The one thing lacking in my life is a really good visual diff tool. If edit+ has that, I very well may give it a look.

It doesn’t. I use the open source winmerge which is … um … workable. Useful enough for certain things that it’s in my “standard toolkit,” but it doesn’t inspire me to proselytize the way edit plus does.

By: Mike Helmecki

Mike Helmecki — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:21:37 +0000

Sorry, that second Textpad should have been Editpad “Editpad for most stuff…”

By: Mike Helmecki

Mike Helmecki — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:19:04 +0000

Nah, you gotta have Google desktop. It’s the enabler for all the cruft you just got rid of. At work, anyway. At home, no thanks, but less madness there.

Textpad lacks many of the chord-key combos that I’m used to out of the box. I’m sure it’s configurable enough that I could change it if I wanted, but it’s easier to find another editor with what I’m used to. Textpad for most stuff, and when you absolutely must open that entire GB+ file, UltraEdit.

By: Ezra Ball

Ezra Ball — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:14:45 +0000

Ah, see, Acrobat Reader, Ad Aware, Spybot are on the IT Dept.’s disk image; they were all pre-installed so I didn’t mention them.

Google Desktop gives me the creeps, so I was happy to have it uninstalled.

In the past two days I have installed a few development tools specific to proprietary software systems I work with, PuTTY/WinSCP, NcFTP, and Natara Bonsai, which is an outliner that syncs with Palm devices. Of course, I haven’t installed the Palm software yet.

By: John Cowan

John Cowan — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:51:44 +0000

Here’s my list of must-installs, FWIW: Sygate Firewall, AdAware/SpyBot/Microsoft Antispyware, Cygwin in full, Firefox, PuTTY/WinURL, XChat, GAIM, OpenOffice, Automachron, Acrobat Reader, Google Desktop. All freely available.

By: Ezra Ball

Ezra Ball — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 02:54:04 +0000

Good grief, I don’t even want to ask why you’re editing binary files with a text editor.

Textpad has extensible syntax and highlighting; not great, but ok.

The one thing lacking in my life is a really good visual diff tool. If edit+ has that, I very well may give it a look.

By: summervillain

summervillain — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:03:06 +0000

as somebody who used to go around saying that textpad was the best $30 i ever spent, i urge you to check out edit+. i still use both; textpad has that open-as-binary feature, but e+ has more robust regexp support, extensible syntax and highlighting for various filetypes, oh, just tons of rocking stuff. now I tend to say that the best software I ever bought was all (at the time of purchase) well under $100, including edit+, textpad, winzip, cooledit (r.i.p.), paint shop pro, etc.