Text Editors

[bdeshi]

Hmm, didn't think of that.
BTW, no wonder Atom's huge. It apparently comes with a whole web-browser, not the "send-recieve packets and be done with it" type either.
Meanwhile I found answers to both of my questions, postponing the post could have saved me from tux..
1. found a search-replace plugin with the scripts plugin, more useful than default, attached ctrl+f shortcut to it.
2. portablefreeware.com has directions to stop those reg-writes. (I don't know why I didn't look there first. It's one of my goto places for portable apps.)
Some plugins seem to use the registry anyways. I'll probably make a portable wrapper with PApps or something.

[tux.]

Meanwhile I found answers to both of my questions, postponing the post could have saved me from tux..

You can't escape!

[FluxTorpedoe]

@SammaySarkar
Hi'
Though I'm quite late here, I wanted to stress again the quality of Akelpad as the lightest (nearly-)full-featured editor I've found — on a slow machine it starts up nearly as fast as Notepad.
(I just updated my XYS syntax highlighting and auto-complete for it here.)

I'd noticed the registry misbehavior too… A bit reluctant about wrapping it up in a PAF though (for start-up speed reasons).

Regarding the search, I juggle between the very practical search panel (mapped it to ALT+F3) and the standard search.
Now that this one's regex engine is greedy too by default (like the search plug-in), what feature is it missing that you find in the plug-in?

[bdeshi]

built-in search doesn't have "find all"/"replace all" buttons.
edit: I use a search vbscript that (probably) came with the Scripts plugin.

[tux.]

Emacs works without buttons!

[bdeshi]

Emacs works without buttons!

It's quite difficult to work with when it lisps so much, you know!
Had to consult a psychotherapist the lst time I looked at emacs.

[tux.]

Could it help you?

[bdeshi]

nope. It kept indirectly directing me in the same directions.

[tux.]

At least it did a thing!

[FluxTorpedoe]

built-in search doesn't have "find all"/"replace all" buttons.

Wow, nice one this "find all"! I don't know how I missed it... Plus, the search script also has regex snippets management... (However, I don't see a difference between the search script "replace all" and the built-in one?)
BTW, one thing I miss in Akelpad is a general snippets tool (but I may have missed it too).

[bdeshi]

However, I don't see a difference between the search script "replace all" and the built-in one?

Sorry, it's just that I think of find all/replace all as a completementing set.

[FluxTorpedoe]

Oh, ok.

In case that might be usefull to someone (and so this post isn't too sterile): I find AkelPad's status bar editing quite useful, e.g. to display the ascii code of the character under caret.
(my line in Akelpad.ini [Options] is: StatusUserFormat=Lines Selected: %ls %[110] Ascii(%cl) = %cd )

[prino]

The z/OS ISPF editor.

[PeterH]

The z/OS ISPF editor.

Hey, that's not fair.

But as you reminded me of ISPF Edit, I remembered I once had looked at some PC emulation...
...but it was the (still) commercial SPFPC, and just for playing around I didn't want to pay money.

But now I searched and found there are 2 free versions: Hybrid Editor XE and SPF Lite.
Anybody knows them and has a tip which one to prefer for a test?

[prino]

The z/OS ISPF editor.

Hey, that's not fair.

But as you reminded me of ISPF Edit, I remembered I once had looked at some PC emulation...
...but it was the (still) commercial SPFPC, and just for playing around I didn't want to pay money.

But now I searched and found there are 2 free versions: Hybrid Editor XE and SPF Lite.
Anybody knows them and has a tip which one to prefer for a test?

Emulation? I use the real one on my PC, running z/OS 1.10 under Hercules and on an 8-core 3.6GHz AMD with 16GB it runs pretty well!

Have used SPF Lite, but the lack of REXX as a macro language in that one makes it useless.