Ultima Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 Notepad ftw! Notepad2 at least... Too bad it has the annoying horizontal scroll crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 Notepad2 is lame and has no Unicode support (neither does UE-32 but at least UE-32 is way more powerful and quite useful), so I'm not gonna touch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 lol I don't really use Unicode... never noticed. Bah suits my needs well enough, I guess. Don't feel like changing either =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 I've got a lot of unicode files/folders, and of course files with unicode text, so I don't really have a choice. Firefox doesn't handle it very well either, sadly. So much for being standards compliant... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 I've been using metapad for the work I've been doing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winMX_67 Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 splintax, that link is dead. I wish there was a tect editor with notepad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 WinMX_67: Notepad 2 FTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Notepad2 FTL. No proper Unicode support and various other issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 lmao I that was just established above on this page too xP@winMX_67: Actually, splintax put the wrong URL. It's http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad, not http://www.liquidninja.net/metapad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winMX_67 Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 I just downloaded metapad its awsome. metapad FTW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 I like textpad:http://www.textpad.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Whoa at $29, you might as well shell out an extra $10 and grab UltraEdit -- widely recognized, and probably one of the best text editors out there. If not, then maybe PSPad. It's extremely feature-filled, yet free. Too bad it feels a little unnatural when I use it... the preferences need a facelift, and the application just doesn't feel like other Windows applications (probably because he used Delphi and whatever GUI toolkit for Delphi to write the program).@Firon: Hm... looking around a bit, and found that UltraEdit can display Unicode... or at least this site seems to say so O.o Also, I just tried Unicode on Notepad2, and it appears to work properly... or at least trying to type Chinese and saving with Unicode as the encoding allows me to open again and see the correct characters. Also, this site has sample Unicode HTML files that I am able to edit in Notepad2 with no problems (I see all the characters properly). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 well, there is no time limit on the trial version and the trial version is the same as the full version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r00ted Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 UltraEdit is too bloated for me.I like Notepad2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Heh just tested metapad, and noticed that it doesn't support Unicode -- or at least the full thing. It only has basic Unicode support (ANSI code page)... Not a criterion to be considered a good editor for me, but definitely is for a lot of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 ...and it doesn't highlight (x)html/css tags either apparently (or I couldn't find an option to do so)... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 UltraEdit-32 is nice but much like Firefox, it's got some weird issues and can't open any files with unicode names (or any files in folders with unicode names). And often it just displays ??????? for some Unicode text. Notepad2 behaved similarly. Even when you "type" in some asian language into it and save it, re-open it and it's all ????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Today I wanted to see what the site looks like without AdBlock running (don't know why). So I pushed Ctrl-Shift-B and refreshed the page, and I must say that as much as I like the design of the main page, when it is viewed with all the ads, it looks pretty bad.It seems that the ads are poorly placed at disturbing locations. The ads should be framed or something like that, and concentrated in less disturbing places. As they are now (at the top of the page) they really ruin the layout, and I doubt if a new user to be will continue to use the site if he encounters all this ad space right at the top of the page.Edit: the effect is the worst on the main home page, and on the RSS Tutorial page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 any comment?did anyone else try to ctrl-shift-B and reload on the main home page (http://www.utorrent.com/) and thought that the ads were poorly placed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Yeah, but what can we do about it? :| Income is pretty thin as it is, and I imagine the cost of keeping up such a high-bandwidth site is pretty high. There's not a lot of alternatives... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 maybe placing the ads at the sides, so the ads are still visible and still at the top, but do not get in the way of the design. I know that people here at the forums worked hard on the current design, and it came out great. I just think that's the design is something worth preserving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignorantcow Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 Didn't quite notice this thread until now.. sorry everyone. And thanks for the compliments. I like the overall layout, but the choice of colors and fonts are poor.Unfortunately web coders aren't presented with a wide array of fonts for us to choose from: So basically we are left with Arial, Verdana (in the sans-serif family), and Georgia (in the serif family), that works cross platform. And I was asked to work with Green, but not to match with yellow. Made it kinda though :\Is this pure css done in notepad (just wondering).Yes, purely hand-coded using Textpad.Today I wanted to see what the site looks like without AdBlock running (don't know why). So I pushed Ctrl-Shift-B and refreshed the page, and I must say that as much as I like the design of the main page, when it is viewed with all the ads, it looks pretty bad.It seems that the ads are poorly placed at disturbing locations. The ads should be framed or something like that, and concentrated in less disturbing places. As they are now (at the top of the page) they really ruin the layout, and I doubt if a new user to be will continue to use the site if he encounters all this ad space right at the top of the page.Edit: the effect is the worst on the main home page, and on the RSS Tutorial page.They are placed that way, on purpose. Not that I approve, but ludde needs clicks, and doesn't want to cheat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 After people recommended UE-32, I gave it a try and it's pretty nice. I'll be using it from now on for coding.I was using metapad before, becuase it's a single .exe and it works well as a notepad replacement (ie. non-coding), I've been using it like a desktop widget using the transparency option at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 @ignorantcow: Can the page be widened a little though? The advertisements protrude to the right =T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 Ultima: turn off JavaScript. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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