More than a little frustrated with Windows Notepad a little while ago, I thought I must be able to find something better. Occasionally I find myself editing text files in the Delphi editor just because of some of the features it gives me. I was even prepared to pay (well, a sensible shareware price anyway), but it turned out not to be necessary.
I was looking to tick a few boxes:
- Multiple files open at a time
- Cut and paste of rectangular block
- Regular expression search/replace
- Some kind of macro replay facility.
Casting around a bit, I found Notepad++ on SourceForge -
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm – which ticks those boxes, and a whole lot more, including syntax highlighting for a long list of languages (including SQL and Pascal), folding capabilities (particularly useful for expanding and collapsing sections of XML files), side-by-side compare of two edit buffers, and lot more.
The second one is a well-known (to some, anyway) FTP solution, FileZilla (http://filezilla-project.org/). Both client and server software, with support for secure FTP. Nothing too flash, but it just works.
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