Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highlight
Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highlight
Hello & Thanks,
I need a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highlight .
For example: When I do a Find in Chrome
it highlights all Find Hits .
I would like a simple/small text editor that does the same 'highlight all hits'.
THanks
I need a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highlight .
For example: When I do a Find in Chrome
it highlights all Find Hits .
I would like a simple/small text editor that does the same 'highlight all hits'.
THanks
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Text editor with FindAll & Highlights
Looking for a Text editor able to highlight simultaneously all occurrences of a search string :
Ever heard of EditPadLite ?
Need look no further, my son : TPFC ...
From the Developer's own illustrated blurb:
Caveats:
PS
Not until the OP query prompted some sniffing around for a likely editor,
did I ever realize my own long-standing EditPadLite (7.2.3) has had the very same text-highlighting capability built-in all along ...
Ever heard of EditPadLite ?
Need look no further, my son : TPFC ...
From the Developer's own illustrated blurb:
- Instant Highlight highlights all occurrences of the word under the text cursor,
without opening the search pane or altering the search term in the search pane.
You can configure EditPad Lite to do this when you double-click a word.
Caveats:
- Not exactly "small" (in my book) : 9MB exe
- Portable installation : see "How to extract" instructions from the main entry
PS
Not until the OP query prompted some sniffing around for a likely editor,
did I ever realize my own long-standing EditPadLite (7.2.3) has had the very same text-highlighting capability built-in all along ...
Re: Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highli
These editors also have this capability:
Akelpad
CudaText
Editor2
Editbone/Text Editor Pro
Notepad2-mod
Notepas
SynWrite
Some work out-of-the-box by double-clicking the word to select all occurrences. With others you need to use search-->highlight all matches either from the menu or from a search dialog.
Editor2, Notepad2-mod, and Akelpad are the most lightweight of the above
Akelpad
CudaText
Editor2
Editbone/Text Editor Pro
Notepad2-mod
Notepas
SynWrite
Some work out-of-the-box by double-clicking the word to select all occurrences. With others you need to use search-->highlight all matches either from the menu or from a search dialog.
Editor2, Notepad2-mod, and Akelpad are the most lightweight of the above
Last edited by TP109 on Sun Mar 12, 2017 6:05 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Re: Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highli
Thanks Folks !
EditPadLite 9mb
Akelpad .554mb
CudaText 16.7mb
Editor2 .102mb
Editbone/Text Editor Pro 9mb
Notepad2-mod .677mb
Notepas 2.8mb
SynWrite 30mb
Editor2 should do the trick
THanks
EditPadLite 9mb
Akelpad .554mb
CudaText 16.7mb
Editor2 .102mb
Editbone/Text Editor Pro 9mb
Notepad2-mod .677mb
Notepas 2.8mb
SynWrite 30mb
Editor2 should do the trick
THanks
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Re: Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highli
@vmars316vmars316 wrote:Thanks Folks !
Editor2 should do the trick
You may or may not care about this, but Editor2 v2.5.0.5 (Link date 13-10-2003) is not exactly portable,
considering it does write no less than 83 entries in the registry...
Then again, this looks like a nice enough, compact editor, with a "Find All and Highlight" function,
where hits are highlighted on a cheerful uniform background painted any color you want,...so long as it's black...
Re: Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highli
Wow!__philippe wrote:83 entries in the registry...
Re: Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highli
Ugh!
Thanks,
What's a good program to remove all its entries ?
Thanks
Thanks,
What's a good program to remove all its entries ?
Thanks
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Re: Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highli
Just ran Nirsoft's RegScanner to clean up the whole "Editor2" mess:vmars316 wrote:Ugh!
Thanks,
What's a good program to remove all its entries ?
Thanks
File-> Delete Selected Keys/Values...OK ?
...hit "Return" (with some trepidation) after a dire warning message ...and all's well that seems well again...so far...
(Word of solace: RegScanner does tactfully create a *.bak recovery file, just in case...)
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Re: Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highli
@OrcaOrca wrote:I've had a quick bash at trying to portalize Editor2 with yaP and I believe it largely eliminates the registry-entry problem.
(I've had the attachment scanned at VirusTotal and the virus-detection result is 14/58, which, admittedly, doesn't sound great. yaP.exe's result is 16/59.)
Thanks for building your Editor2.zip yaP launcher.
Apparently, yaP *.exe ad-hoc launchers invariably return a VT 16/59 score.
I observed the very same score for a recently tested ExifPilot launcher, with no apparent ill effect.
Re: Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highli
If you run Orca's yaP launcher, that should remove those registry entries when you close Editor2 and those registry entries will be saved to a settings.reg file in the yaP launcher folder. On my machine, Editor2 creates 90 registry entries in HKCU\Software\ZabaraKatranemia Plc\Editor2.TP109 wrote:What's a good program to remove all its entries ?
I tested Orca's launcher and it works. However, Orca's .ini file also removes anything else in the ZabaraKatranemia Plc subkey. When I looked at that subkey with Registry Commander I saw I had other entries for another app, xplorer2, which isn't installed as a portable app. You could change the yaP launcher ini file as below to preserve those entries if you have a similar setup, which would also delete the HKCU\Software\ZabaraKatranemia Plc subkey if empty, otherwise just use the Orca's yaP launcher as is to remove and save all the settings:
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[BEFORE]
regkey = HKCU\Software\ZabaraKatranemia Plc\Editor2
[AFTER]
-regkey = HKCU\Software\ZabaraKatranemia Plc\Editor2
-regkey = HKCU\Software\ZabaraKatranemia Plc :: ifempty
Last edited by TP109 on Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:01 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highli
@TP109
Remarkable detective work, thanks.
The suggested code enhancement to Orca's yaP launcher illustrates nicely the synergy alive across independent TPFC fellow hackers.
Remarkable detective work, thanks.
The suggested code enhancement to Orca's yaP launcher illustrates nicely the synergy alive across independent TPFC fellow hackers.
Re: Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highli
FYI, Editor2 is supposed to be natively portable if an 'ed2.ini' file is present alongside the executable. I haven't tested it recently, so YMMV...
Re: Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highli
Just tested it with an ed2.ini file and it didn't work. Maybe other settings within the ini file are required? I tested it using ver 2.5.0.5 of Editor2.Midas wrote:FYI, Editor2 is supposed to be natively portable if an 'ed2.ini' file is present alongside the executable. I haven't tested it recently, so YMMV...
Additional Testing
I tested using an ed2.ini file with ver 2.9.1.13 Ansi and it saves the settings to the ini file. So it looks like that will work depending on the version.
Re: Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highli
Editor2 native portability is a relatively recent enhancement -- from my files it is present since v2.9.1.6, but I can't guarantee it was when it appeared* (or even if it works...).TP109 wrote:So it looks like that will work depending on the version.
Further portability info from the developer can be read at http://zabkat.com/x2h_9.htm#sap_bri.
*) it was already present back in 2013, as I posted about at viewtopic.php?p=63002#p63002.
Last edited by Midas on Tue Mar 14, 2017 1:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Wanted: a simple/small text editor with FindAll & Highli
Editor2 v2.9.2.4 (link date 9-11-2016) also confirmed portable - thankfully free of any registry shenanigan...
This Editor2 recent version is embedded in the free xplorer2_lite_setup.exe package available here http://zabkat.com/x2lite.htm
CLI shortcut to extract exclusively the Editor2 components from the setup package:
c:\>7z e xplorer2_lite_setup.exe edit*.*
To secure portability (as mentioned by Midas and TP109 before), either create an empty ED2.INI file in the Editor2.exe folder,
or invoke Editor2 from the command line with a portable settings option, so:
c:\>Editor2 /I:settings.INI
This Editor2 recent version is embedded in the free xplorer2_lite_setup.exe package available here http://zabkat.com/x2lite.htm
CLI shortcut to extract exclusively the Editor2 components from the setup package:
c:\>7z e xplorer2_lite_setup.exe edit*.*
To secure portability (as mentioned by Midas and TP109 before), either create an empty ED2.INI file in the Editor2.exe folder,
or invoke Editor2 from the command line with a portable settings option, so:
c:\>Editor2 /I:settings.INI