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Originally Posted by jimmyzou
Wow, Kacir, thank yo uvery much for writing that lot.
Unfortunately or Fortunately, I' m a windows user, so I will try TextPad and Editpad Pro...
I ever used Ultraedit years ago, is this one also comparablely good?
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I have been Windows user since Windows 2.0 version. I use windows at work even now. I need it to run Autocad, CorelDraw and other programs. I am also administrator at the company I work for, so I am a kind of mercenary. I use anything that will get the work done. Windows, Unix, Linux, ... whatever. I even teach MS Office occasionaly ;-)
Choice of operating system, or an editor (here I make fun of Vi versus Emacs war) is not a religion. You simply use what works the best for YOU and what you can afford to pay for (or persuade your boss to buy for you).
I have been using TextPad for many, many years. It is a great editor, packed to the gills with very powerfull features. It also has a very shallow learning curve and suports decent subset of Regular expressions. It is shareware, but it does not expire and has no disabled features (or used to have, I haven't used TextPad for a intensive work for a few years).
I have started using GVim on windows (
www.vim.org) only after my skills with Regular expressions grew, and I discovered limits of TextPad.
So I do recommand TextPad as the first choice.
I also recommand EditPad pro
Because the site
http://www.regular-expressions.info recommands it, and their Tutorial is THE best tutorial about RE I have ever seen. And I am quite keen on REs as you might have noticed ;-)
I am always on the hunt for even better text editor and over the years I have tried many, many editors.
If you like UltraEdit, use it. It is one of the best editors out there and it does support regular expressions (that is a very, very powerfull features for "search and replace" function)
But first of all go to
http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html
and get *inspired*.
You can do incredible things with text files with a few clever commands in a powerfull text editor. The most important thing is to get the tool you are comfortable with and start playing.