Simple text editor for Windows -- any recommendations? Thread poster: Samuel Murray
| Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 19:47 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ...
Hello everyone Today, my text editor (Akelpad) stopped working. I mean, it insisted that a UTF8 file is ANSI and I could not convince it otherwise. So, I'm on the prowl for a new text editor. I would like something simple but capable of doing the most basic functions, including using wildcards or regex in find/replace, the ability to correctly guess a file's encoding (or to allow me to specify it and then reload the file with that encoding), the ability to open individual files i... See more Hello everyone Today, my text editor (Akelpad) stopped working. I mean, it insisted that a UTF8 file is ANSI and I could not convince it otherwise. So, I'm on the prowl for a new text editor. I would like something simple but capable of doing the most basic functions, including using wildcards or regex in find/replace, the ability to correctly guess a file's encoding (or to allow me to specify it and then reload the file with that encoding), the ability to open individual files in individual windows, and the ability to change the display font. Free or paid. Do you have any recommendations? Samuel ▲ Collapse | | | | | wotswot France Local time: 19:47 Member (2011) French to English Try Editpad Pro | Sep 1, 2021 |
Notepad ++ is very good, but I've been using Editpad Pro ([url=https://www.editpadpro.com/[/url]) for many years and it's never let me down, even with huge TBX/TMX files. And you can choose any system font for the display. As for file encoding, it has a really useful file encoding feature that detects (best-guess) the file's encoding and lets you easily switch encoding, say between UTF8, Unicode 16 little/big endian, and many more encoding options then you preview the result before saving ... See more Notepad ++ is very good, but I've been using Editpad Pro ([url=https://www.editpadpro.com/[/url]) for many years and it's never let me down, even with huge TBX/TMX files. And you can choose any system font for the display. As for file encoding, it has a really useful file encoding feature that detects (best-guess) the file's encoding and lets you easily switch encoding, say between UTF8, Unicode 16 little/big endian, and many more encoding options then you preview the result before saving (or abandoning). And its Regex is very powerful too see the developer's other products at https://www.just-great-software.com/). In short, it does everything you mentioned (and probably much more) for a very reasonable licence price (€49). Good support too. Richard ▲ Collapse | |
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Andriy Yasharov Ukraine Local time: 20:47 Member (2008) English to Russian + ... Text Edit Plus for PC | Sep 1, 2021 |
I use Text Edit Plus available at vovsoft.com/software/text-edit-plus Key Features are: Spell checker Syntax Highlighter Generate text stats Encode and decode text Combine lines Command system for extracting desired text Delete empty lines Delete duplicate lines Filter lines Generat... See more I use Text Edit Plus available at vovsoft.com/software/text-edit-plus Key Features are: Spell checker Syntax Highlighter Generate text stats Encode and decode text Combine lines Command system for extracting desired text Delete empty lines Delete duplicate lines Filter lines Generate e-mail lists Generate word lists Lowercase and uppercase conversion Regular expressions Randomize lines Reverse lines Sort lines Split lines Crop lines Unicode Detector UTF-8 support ▲ Collapse | | | esperantisto Local time: 20:47 Member (2006) English to Russian + ... SITE LOCALIZER
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