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My recommendation for EmEditor.
Small note: I'm using version 8 which is indeed lightweight and fast. Current version is 11 and it seems to go where all software is destined to go (sigh): Feature creep.
Small note: I'm using version 8 which is indeed lightweight and fast. Current version is 11 and it seems to go where all software is destined to go (sigh): Feature creep.
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Re: Text Editors
Sublime Text 2 is nice but nothing beats gVim...
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EditPad Pro, unbeatable search-and-replace regex engine
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Re: Text Editors
Does it allow you to e.g. find all lines with a specific pattern and delete these lines + the following x lines after each pattern?EditPad Pro, unbeatable search-and-replace regex engine
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Yes. Want the code?highend wrote:Does it allow you to e.g. find all lines with a specific pattern and delete these lines + the following x lines after each pattern?
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Re: Text Editors
I like http://www.ultraedit.com/ personally.
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I grew up on TextPad 4.7, and I've stuck with it to this day.
The biggest reason is everything else I've tried makes it extremely difficult or impossible to find and replace a multi-line regular expression (everything Scintilla-based fails this).
Unfortunately, it seems like a relatively dead product and they've just been dragging the 5.* versions around trying to keep it working correctly, or at least looking fresh on the newer versions of Windows.
The biggest reason is everything else I've tried makes it extremely difficult or impossible to find and replace a multi-line regular expression (everything Scintilla-based fails this).
Unfortunately, it seems like a relatively dead product and they've just been dragging the 5.* versions around trying to keep it working correctly, or at least looking fresh on the newer versions of Windows.
Re: Text Editors
Well if you mean that you can include line breaks in a regular expression so that an expression can match against more than one line, you can do that in ultraedit.
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/r/n for explicitly matching a line break in EditPad
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Re: Text Editors
A basic example of what I mean is taking something like:Twisten wrote:Well if you mean that you can include line breaks in a regular expression so that an expression can match against more than one line, you can do that in ultraedit.
And using a find of:a
b
c
a
d
c
Code: Select all
(a)\n\n([bd])\n\n(c)
Code: Select all
$2-$1-$3\n
It would also be great if it supported wildcards following a line break (i.e. "\n+"), which TextPad currently does not do.b-a-c
d-a-c
I would hope UltraEdit handles it with their hefty price tag, but I haven't been able to swallow that - especially since my interests have grown to prefer cross-platform support, and $160!?
Admittedly, it's been a few years since I compared editors but last time the most interesting candidate was HippoEdit. However lately Sublime Text has been drawing my attention more.
And truthfully, I think by the time I find a cross-platform option I love I'll be looking for a cloud app with offline support instead.
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Same here .TheQwerty wrote:Admittedly, it's been a few years since I compared editors but last time the most interesting candidate was HippoEdit. However lately Sublime Text has been drawing my attention more.
I use Notepad2 for quick edits, and have been using Notepad++ for larger jobs until recently, where I've started playing with Sublime Text 2. I also went past HippoEdit which had some really awesome features, but felt a bit like it was drowning in betas.
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Indeed, I wasn't ready for another program with as many betas as XY. The other pain point I felt was the difficulty in creating new/custom syntax highlighters. They offer much more capabilities than TextPad here, but this comes with more complicated definitions and unfortunately both allowed their documentation to lag too far behind to be of any real use.Jibz wrote:… where I've started playing with Sublime Text 2. I also went past HippoEdit which had some really awesome features, but felt a bit like it was drowning in betas.
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Yes, ultraedit can handle this, it can't usualy match \n+ buy you could try and force it with [~]+ which will match repeated line breaks but might not fit exactly your criteria.TheQwerty wrote:A basic example of what I mean is taking something like:Twisten wrote:Well if you mean that you can include line breaks in a regular expression so that an expression can match against more than one line, you can do that in ultraedit.And using a find of:a
b
c
a
d
cand replacing it withCode: Select all
(a)\n\n([bd])\n\n(c)
resulting in:Code: Select all
$2-$1-$3\n
It would also be great if it supported wildcards following a line break (i.e. "\n+"), which TextPad currently does not do.b-a-c
d-a-c
I would hope UltraEdit handles it with their hefty price tag, but I haven't been able to swallow that - especially since my interests have grown to prefer cross-platform support, and $160!?
Admittedly, it's been a few years since I compared editors but last time the most interesting candidate was HippoEdit. However lately Sublime Text has been drawing my attention more.
And truthfully, I think by the time I find a cross-platform option I love I'll be looking for a cloud app with offline support instead.