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18 April 2006

Ask Mecha Help me edit text!→[More:]I have been asked to do stuff with a bunch of marked-up text files. The files came with a recommendation to use Text Wrangler or QUED/M - but those are both Mac and I only have access to a PC. Sooo... can anyone recommend a good PC alternative that I can download? Ktxbye. XXX

post by: nomis at: 02:33 | 11 comments

I use textpad and I love it!!
Common consensus is to use either textpad or ultraEdit. see this AskMe Question for more.

posted by seanyboy 18 April | 02:44

Don't know if this helps, but the highest rated, most popular freeware Windows text editor download on Tucows is Crimson Editor. Ultraedit-32 is the highest rated, most popular overall. Here's a list of all Windows text editors sorted by rating; there are nine applications with a top score of 5 cows, and you can see popularity and price info (shareware, freeware, etc.) in the info on the left.

(I don't know why Tucows doesn't have TextPad... at least I don't see it in the list)

posted by taz 18 April | 03:19

If you only need it for a project, you could try a trial of CuteHTML, which I have found to be quite good.

posted by dg 18 April | 05:47

Yay EditPlus.

posted by mike9322 18 April | 06:43

Indeed EditPlus.

posted by danostuporstar 18 April | 06:57

Nice one bunnies. I'll check out all the options and see what'll fit the bill. Thanks all!

posted by nomis 18 April | 07:11

You should use vim.





:wq

posted by dodgygeezer 18 April | 07:11

My computer science professor in first year got us all using EMACS for Windows, forced us to learn all the keyboard shortcuts and wahtnot in the lab, and everything I've tried since has been lacking in some way or another so I keep going back.

posted by Space Coyote 18 April | 08:18

Another TextPad fan here.

posted by matildaben 18 April | 09:27

is there a BBEdit for PC? wouldn't that work?

posted by amberglow 18 April | 10:32

No BBEdit for PCs. A lot of people like HomeSite.

posted by kirkaracha 18 April | 13:16

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