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Sammi
May 6th, 2008, 08:14 PM
I never thought I'd say this, but I've found a program that is only for Macintosh and I need a similar thing for Windows.

TextWrangler (http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/) is a kick-ass text editor, made of kittens and win. It has a brilliant interface, colors code and has every function I could possibly want in an editor (and plugins, for everything else). Its search function can make use of regular expressions, too, which would make my job a bit easier. The only problem is that my work computer has Windows, and it is not in my power to change that sad fact. Does anybody know of a similarly awesome text editor for Unix-challenged computers?

Null
May 9th, 2008, 12:11 AM
I used to have something similar to that, but I haven't used it in a while and I've forgotten the name. Once I get home I'll poke through my downloaded stuff and see if I can find it for you.

Claidhmore
May 9th, 2008, 02:50 AM
What do you need done that Wordpad or Notepad can't do for you?

TwistedFirestarter
May 10th, 2008, 03:21 AM
Notepad++ is pretty sweet (and it's opensource!)

adam
May 10th, 2008, 01:03 PM
I second Notepad++. I use it for just about everything.

Justin
May 10th, 2008, 02:20 PM
He makes me use it too :p

adam
May 10th, 2008, 02:24 PM
Geez, you make me sound kind of bossy. Of course, you like it like that.

Justin
May 10th, 2008, 02:38 PM
You? Never :D. Yeah, well that's a secret you know ;)

TwistedFirestarter
May 11th, 2008, 05:15 AM
*sporfles at the peach*

Sammi
May 11th, 2008, 07:37 PM
I'll give Notepad++ a shot.

What do you need done that Wordpad or Notepad can't do for you?
Mostly regular expressions; parsing Unix and Mac return characters and/or converting them into Windows return characters because Windows plain-text programs can't be arsed to parse alternate systems' return characters on their own (try opening a TextEdit document in Notepad); a moderately pleasant user interface; and code-coloring, which makes it a lot easier to read code.