Re: Text Editor

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pctech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   5. Re: Text Editor (Jones, John (US))
>
>- I like being able to edit large text files (1/2GB) with good
>performance.  
>- Syntax highlighting is available for net.data via a free add-on.
>- Column mode has been handy.  
>- Ditto converting EBCDIC -- ASCII and Unix -- DOS.
>- Hex view/edit.

A good add-on library is a very nice plus. I haven't needed any of the ones 
available for NoteTab, so I can't compare them. The hex view/edit would be nice 
every once in a while, though there are freeware ones available that can be 
linked into NoteTab. (Hex view/edit is a supposed feature in the next release.)

Now, the 2GB text file stuff can become a drag in the freeware of NoteTab. The 
Pro version is very fast. (But I rarely expect high-speed when opening 
documents over a few 100MBs.)

Other UE-32 features mentioned in the thread (EBCDIC/DOS/UNIX, column mode, 
etc.) are pretty standard in NT though there are improvements in paid versions.

So far, I'd still recommend NoteTab Lite (freeware) for a text editor. The 
choice to upgrade to NT Standard ($9.95) or NT Pro (19.95) or UltraEdit (or 
whatever) is up to user preference by the time the need arises.

These products blur the line between "text editor" and "word processor", not to 
mention "source editor". NT tends to emphasize that it's a "text editor".

Tom Liotta