Extreme Editor V7.1.0.6    Suggested by technicolordreamcoat - Updated by I am Baas on 3 Aug 2010 2MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (1838) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (10) - Post comment - Permalink

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 Korkiss: PSPad better ;) [2006-10-18 02:54]

 brad: not very nice Korkiss; these are hardworking people making free software for you - and all you can say is that another program is better? Not to mention you are comparing a minimalistic editor (483k) to a full blown IDE-ish editor (3.3Mb). Nice. [2007-03-29 06:20]

 tripex: Well, Korkiss's throw in might be not too nice, but life is competition, even in the Freeware world. I enjoy reading about alternatives, but just 'MyProgram is better' is not very helpfully. Users want to know the main advantages AND main disadvantages. Furthermore I'd expect any mentioned alternative here to be portable. [2007-03-29 13:52]

 linuxamp: I think it's fine to say ... is better ... Anyone looking looking for any application will be better off if they know that alternatives are available. Granted, if you do say "is better" then I agree with tripex that you should include some reasoning.

Want alternatives and reasoning... Check out these sites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors

My preferred editors: Notepad++ and VIM [2007-03-29 21:47]

 -.-: hm i like this editor, but wished it had some options to change fonts and change tab settings to show file name and not full path, its like a mini version of editpad to me

and for its size, its kind of big for what it has, but being 1mb i can still spare space lol but kpad did about same as a text editor and its 100kb. I know kpad doesnt have the programmer tools.

if anyone wants, I packed the .ini file into the program so now it is only 1 file and still stealth :D so I can pm it to you on forums [2010-01-11 02:44]

 BGM: Truthfully, if you want a good portable text editor, I think, (with lots of web-dev and other coding experience) that Notepad2 (http://www.flos-freeware.ch) is the very best. I use it on my thumb drive. It has full syntax coloring, and is extremely fast. I use Notepad++ also for the tab feature, but it isn't as fast for quick editing. If I want a minimalist editor, I'll just turn off the toolbar on NP2. I don't know whether it makes any registry entries, but it keeps all its settings in an ini file in the application folder. [2010-01-11 03:26]

 Midas: Haven't tried EE yet, but couldn't help soloing to the chorus here: PSPad's good, but has far too many options and is far too big to make a good MS Notepad replacement; Notepad++ is smaller, but the same applies; Notepad is a superb effort in this field and would win hands down... if it only could do URL activation and highlighting, a feature the developer is totally unwilling to implement. My final choice (after months of searching, since I consider a good and straightforward text editor an essential computer tool) is an hacked win32pad (http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=691) -- which unfortunately can't do text case conversions and so it isn't a perfect one. [2010-01-12 15:11]

 Midas: EE seems like a very good effort in the light of my considerations above and despite its somewhat large file-size; sadly it doesn't do URL activation and highlighting, make it lag behind NP2 in this class... [2010-01-12 15:33]

 BJK: The web site is inaccessible [2010-08-03 05:58]

 aeris: The web site is completely accessible ;) [2010-08-03 08:01]

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