It has just come to my (notably feeble) attention that something I wrote in the
first post of this topic is no longer true: Zabkat
Editor2, which is included in recent versions (at least from 2.3.0.0) of payware file manager
Xplorer2, can now be made portable simply by dropping a blank '
ed2.ini' file in its folder (there's also a new command line switch, if you care for that)...
Editor2 is a "no-frills", lightweight yet surprisingly handy notepad type editor offered both in 32 and 64bit versions (for a video demo, see
http://www.zabkat.com/blog/wink/ed2.htm).
Although
Editor2 is freeware, it doesn't have a separate download location, and has to be extracted from the
Xplorer2 trial package -- downloadable at
http://www.zabkat.com. (BTW, the corresponding files are:
ed2skin.png,
Editor2.txt,
editor2_64.exe,
editor2_64.exe.manifest,
editor2_UC.exe,
editor2_UC.exe.manifest.)
After first run, the contents of '
ed2.ini' provides further customization than what's available in
Editor2's GUI -- e.g., if you don't need the default text codepage conversion presented in the 'View | Use 1253 (ANSI Cyrillic)', you could change it to UTF-8 Unicode by altering it to 'nAltCP=65001'; there are also options to alter the default date an time formats ('szCustomDateFormat' and 'szCustomTimeFormat'; unfortunately the former doesn't include any separating space, nor does it honor a blank character a the end of the string, so I had to change it to "yyyy-MM-dd_" to get the ISO standard format).