I think I have, I think I have, I think I have. Okay, after the plea for a decent text editor I made last week; it seems something pretty close to what I was begging for has slipped in to my hands.
After a few comments I checked out some of the recommendations you guys made. VIM wasn’t too good when it didn’t work first time. I’m also not much of a fan of VIM even in Linux (nano > *). Notepad++ was missing the file/directory task pane and Zend, well, we won’t even go there.
Readers, meet PSPad. PSPad, meet readers:
PSPad is an awesome free text editor, which doesn’t look like it was made in the 1990’s. It answers my prayers in a lot of areas:
- Modern-style user interface
- Customisable UI - it is limited but allowed me to turn off most of what I don’t need.
- File browser task pane
- A useful status bar
- Browser testing - and it also has buttons to resize the window specific to certain resolutions!
- Template support
- Regular expression support
- Automatic code completion
- Built in support for adding your own debugger
- Spell checker
But of course, it has lots more than just that.
It has a few annoyances though, such as Redo isn’t Ctrl+Y, it is actually Ctrl+Shift+Z. That is going to take some getting used to. The other annoyance would be that when I close PSPad, it opens up again but the ‘project’ tab on the side bar is active and not my last used tab (well, I would settle for some way of disabling this project management system all together). I can live with those, however.
Other nasty little goodies it has includes a code explorer which will show me a listing of functions, variables, and includes in place in the script and allows me to jump directly to them - this is particularly useful if I’m working on a class in MyBB or a large file of functions (functions.php!). Things like an ever-so-useful colour eye dropper and hex converter (oh, the time that would save!), built in Lorem Ipsum generator, expression evaluator, macro recording, and a whole lot of other things I could go on and on about.
It’s cool. You should check it out..
Comments
John Anderton (December 8th, 2005, 4:05 am)
Nice. Looks good and i like it.
Looks nice plus at 2.88Mb isnt too big either. I dont think it will consume much memory (cause its just a text editor unlike complex image editors like adobe photoshop cs2)
Im downloading it as we speak. Ill give it a try even though i dont need it much atm
And btw i think you might wanna correct the line “Readers, meat PSPad. PSPad, meat readers:” to “Readers, meet PSPad. PSPad, meet readers:”
Bashar (December 9th, 2005, 10:31 am)
I love EditPlus, and wouldn’t leave it
proph3t (December 15th, 2005, 3:10 am)
You may also want to try:
http://context.cx
It has most of the features you want (though not all of them), but it really shines in the speed and looks area. It looks great, starts up really fast, can be configured to look really minimal and yet still has awesome find/replace features and tabs and all the other usual good stuff.
Though, with your requirements for a program it may not live up to all of the features.
Eljay (December 15th, 2005, 5:11 am)
wow this editor is just laziness define
loving the “Save to FTP” function, no more local testing for me
thanks for link surfi
Eljay (December 15th, 2005, 5:40 am)
just found something you might not know about, you can change the Redo shortcut (and every other shortcut :P) in Setting -> Program Settings -> Key Map
-dt- (December 16th, 2005, 1:40 am)
Hmm tis way too “clunky” for me. Infact I really cant use editors like that :-/ just sooo much other stuff , distracts from the code.
gusto5 (December 16th, 2005, 3:05 pm)
only a week? lucky you lol. it was a good month before anyone bothered to suggest that to me.
great stuff with myBB btw.
Mnjul (December 17th, 2005, 8:46 pm)
The software is cool surfi!
Built in file comparsion, hex editor and full Chinese support :banana:
John Anderton (December 22nd, 2005, 6:35 am)
Heh Mnjul, you just love the Chinese support dont you
lol
wildteen88 (December 22nd, 2005, 11:23 pm)
What a great free editor! So many fetures available in this little beauty. It is hard to find the right editor for yourself these days. But i think PSPad and I will get along well with each other!
>> It has a few annoyances though, such as Redo isn’t Ctrl Y, it is actually Ctrl Shift Z.
There is something you havnt looked at yet! As you can change every singal shortkey in the settings panel, goto Settings -> Program Settings -> KeyMap -> Select Edit form menu -> Find Redo and double clcik it change the shortcut key to your likes, ie pres Ctrl Y and your done!
Also that screenshot of PSEdit is that a UNIX or a Windows theme? Very stylish theme.