# A good text editor? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [April 8, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885 "2006-04-08T20:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hkl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a8b319/32.png) [@hkl](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hkl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/1 "2006-04-08T20:57:52Z")
any1 know a good text editor? like notepad, although i hear its pretty terrible, it adds extra text etc ---
**Author:** ![unclesond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@unclesond](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/unclesond)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/2 "2006-04-08T21:27:07Z")
Notepad, wordpad, word, depends, they’re all kinda the same, but with stripped features for simpler small memory prog… notepad adds extra text? huh? ---
**Author:** ![955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/4bbf92/32.png) [@955](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/955)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/3 "2006-04-08T22:46:17Z")
> [@hkl](#): > > any1 know a good text editor? > > like notepad, although i hear its pretty terrible, it adds extra text etc [SciTE or [url=http://emacswiki.org/]Emacs](http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html). ---
**Author:** ![Joppe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b38774/32.png) [@Joppe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Joppe)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/4 "2006-04-08T22:58:29Z")
Scite is really good. Thank god I just remeber Scite. Why did i even install dreamweaver :lol: ---
**Author:** ![hkl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a8b319/32.png) [@hkl](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hkl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/5 "2006-04-08T23:22:14Z")
i read somewhere that notepad adds extra text in the file if u save it because it thinks its something else when it saves. Bit vague, but its late here and im tired lol:P ---
**Author:** ![955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/4bbf92/32.png) [@955](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/955)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/6 "2006-04-08T23:43:46Z")
> [@hkl](#): > > i read somewhere that notepad adds extra text in the file if u save it because it thinks its something else when it saves. Bit vague, but its late here and im tired lol:P That’s probably Word… ---
**Author:** ![MichaelxxOA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@MichaelxxOA](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MichaelxxOA)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/7 "2006-04-08T23:51:28Z")
VI! [www.vim.org](http://www.vim.org) By far the most powerful text-editor 🙂 It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get it, you’re unstoppable. \_Michael ---
**Author:** ![955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/4bbf92/32.png) [@955](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/955)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/8 "2006-04-08T23:59:47Z")
> [@MichaelxxOA](#): > > VI! > > [www.vim.org](http://www.vim.org) > > By far the most powerful text-editor 🙂 It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get it, you’re unstoppable. > > \_Michael NO! [size=1]for those not enlightened: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor\_war[/size]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war%5B/size%5D) ---
**Author:** ![SPAD3S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SPAD3S](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SPAD3S)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/9 "2006-04-09T00:07:31Z")
word. lol anything works for me it doesnt matter. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelxxOA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@MichaelxxOA](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MichaelxxOA)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/10 "2006-04-09T00:08:57Z")
Why point reference to an editor war article, I made made my suggestion based on what I think, and I think that VI is the most powerful text editor. If you are going to knock the editor (either of them, VI or Emacs) then do it with something better than an article on editor wars. I’m sure not too many if anyone here is a devote fan of either editor, bringing up something as irrelevant as that is dumb. I say if you are in search of an editor, look into all your options, my choice is VI, and I suggest that you at least look into it. The control and flexibility is undeniable, the learning curve like I said is awkward, but it’s worth it in the end. Take Care. \_Michael ---
**Author:** ![unclesond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@unclesond](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/unclesond)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 10:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/11 "2006-04-09T10:45:08Z")
I naively never realised there was such a choice. I’ve been a notepad man for years. I think I’ll check some of these out and see what they have to offer. ---
**Author:** ![955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/4bbf92/32.png) [@955](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/955)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/12 "2006-04-09T11:51:15Z")
> [@MichaelxxOA](#): > > Why point reference to an editor war article, I made made my suggestion based on what I think, and I think that VI is the most powerful text editor. If you are going to knock the editor (either of them, VI or Emacs) then do it with something better than an article on editor wars. > > I’m sure not too many if anyone here is a devote fan of either editor, bringing up something as irrelevant as that is dumb. > > I say if you are in search of an editor, look into all your options, my choice is VI, and I suggest that you at least look into it. The control and flexibility is undeniable, the learning curve like I said is awkward, but it’s worth it in the end. > > Take Care. > > \_Michael I was joking, calm down 😉 I intended to make the point that I prefer Emacs to vi/vim ---
**Author:** ![hkl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a8b319/32.png) [@hkl](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hkl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/13 "2006-04-09T14:53:51Z")
i hear textpad is good? ---
**Author:** ![signifer123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@signifer123](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/signifer123)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/14 "2006-04-09T17:29:35Z")
i like notepad++ [http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm](http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm) tons of feauture but loads just about as fast as wordpad/notepad, and supports plugins ---
**Author:** ![bwh2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@bwh2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bwh2)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/15 "2006-04-09T18:06:20Z")
> [@hkl](#): > > like notepad, although i hear its pretty terrible, it adds extra text etc that’s occurs when you save it as a log file. normal text files are fine. if you’re just looking for a text editor for small text, notepad should be fine. if you have large text files (20MB+) i would look into something like ultra edit 32. you don’t want one that stores the data in memory because then it takes a long time to load. you want the data loaded as needed, which ultra edit does. ---
**Author:** ![foodpk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/0ea827/32.png) [@foodpk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/foodpk)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/16 "2006-04-09T18:28:11Z")
I concur, notepad++ is winnership. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelxxOA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@MichaelxxOA](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MichaelxxOA)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/17 "2006-04-09T19:53:24Z")
sorry I was tired and grumpy, stupid thing for me to get upset about ☹ ---
**Author:** ![955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/4bbf92/32.png) [@955](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/955)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/18 "2006-04-09T20:02:54Z")
> [@MichaelxxOA](#): > > sorry I was tired and grumpy, stupid thing for me to get upset about ☹ Ah, no worries then 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Maizoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Maizoon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maizoon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/19 "2006-04-10T01:41:33Z")
nano is the best! ---
**Author:** ![Maizoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Maizoon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maizoon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/20 "2006-04-10T01:42:28Z")
nano/pico is the best! [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885.md?page=2)