   What's a good text editor?
  I need a text editor to replace notepad. I''ve looked on download.com, but there''s loads, most of them are shareware, and none of them seem to be what I''m after. I want something which is free, supports fixed width fonts, and is able to display the ascii value of the character at the cursor, preferably in hex and decimal. Any other useful programming features are a bonus.    ____________________________________________________________www.elf-stone.com
  I use and like TextPad.  ;  EmEditor Free.  .sen  ;Emacs ?    [Questions (STFW) | GDNet Start Here | GDNet Search | Forum FAQ | Google | Asking Smart Questions ][Docs (RTFM) | MSDN | SGI''s STL | OpenGL | File formats][C++ Must Haves (RTFS) | MinGW | Boost | Loki | FLTK | SDL ]Stolen from Magmai Kai Holmlor, who held it from Oluseyi, who was inspired by Kylotan...  ;Programmer's file editor -[ Man is the warmest place to hide ]-[edited by - The Thing on April 26, 2002 6:48:38 PM];Havn''t tried this one, but it could be good and it''s freeware FireCross is a REALLY great finnish gamedev team. Download also mclone (pure software with DX7)/MindWipe    ;  try using Editplus.. basically even after being so full of features it still loads so fast, its pretty amazing... but its shareware, so you''ll have to pay after 30 days.. As for me, I wrote my own texteditor in borland delphi by modifying one of the free projects at sourceforge.net. I just keep adding more features as per my requirements, so its kinda more cool this way! cyanide.  ;  I like nedit, but it is for *nix. There is a "port" to windows, but it requires you to run cygwin (linux under windows).  It has the ability to do extremely flexible formatting, with many languages included with the package.  If the language you use isn''t their, you can add it by creating a sort of config file.  This may not be all that useful to you (although everybody should switch to *nix ), but perhaps somebody else will find it useful.ewen  ;quote:Original post by cyanide  try using <a href="http://editplus.com">Editplus</a>.. basically even after being so full of features it still loads so fast, its pretty amazing... but its shareware, so you''ll have to pay after 30 days..   I like EditPlus, too.  You don''t <i>have</i> to register it, though.  The program will simply display a pop-up box when you start it if you are past the 30 day mark.    ;  I tried a couple of the programs people have recommended, but so far I haven''t seen any which can display the current character''s ascii code like DOS'' edit does.____________________________________________________________www.elf-stone.com