![]() The text font defaults to Consolas if available, and the entire UI scales correctly in Windows high DPI mode, even with my current 150% setting.Here’s another rarity: the hotkeys work out of the box on a German keyboard! Most UIs blithely assume an American keyboard where characters such as square brackets can be part of a hotkey. Highlighting matched and mismatched braces and tags, and commands to jump to matches and insert missing ones. ![]() EditPad Pro even offers my favorite Visual Studio scheme for all supported programming languages. This is surprisingly rare, as most programmers seem to be stuck in the Unix terminal days and demand white-on-black color schemes. Good black-on-white color schemes for syntax highlighting.Here’s a quick rundown of things I liked about EditPad Pro in the couple of days I’ve been using it, regardless of whether they are also provided by EmEditor (most are): But all I need for my daily use is there, and packaged into a slick and attractive UI that’s considerably more accessible than EmEditor’s. A few EmEditor specialties are missing, such as support for CSV tables and LaTeX syntax highlighting. Happily, EditPad Pro by Jan Goyvaerts fits the bill exactly. So I cast about for an alternative: light-weight, not too expensive, and comparable in feature set, but with a cleaner and simpler UI. Worse, EmEditor relies on third-party plug-ins for some basic functionality, and the plug-in mechanism is poorly integrated with the standard UI. As the program accrued more and more features, the UI became a labyrinthine mess of multi-level menus, multi-line toolbars, and multi-tabbed dialogs. That’s a good thing, too, because EmEditor is now afflicted by bit rot in its user interface. Those days are thankfully behind us, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find any modern text editor that doesn’t support Unicode. Indeed, I switched to EmEditor from two earlier favorites because their authors refused to add Unicode support, claiming it wasn’t important! Back in the day, EmEditor was one of the first editors to fully support Unicode. for about a decade), Yutaka Emura’s EmEditor was my preferred editor for all kinds of plain text, including HTML/XML documents and source code outside of full-fledged IDEs. I am disappointed to see John Haller, who otherwise has a reputation for high-quality reliable software, promoting this fundamentally flawed program.From days immemorial (i.e. Goodbye to Notepad++ I never want to touch it again.īy the way, Notepad++ Portable has the the same major bug. Well, it's too much user effort for me to tolerate this horribly defective program. And what reason does he give for not fixing it? He says it's too much "coding effort". ![]() Scroll to the "Followups" section at the bottom of that formal bug-report page, and you will witness Don Ho blatantly refusing to fix this major bug. Here is a link to a bug report about it (on an official Notepad++ web site): ![]() There is a work-around for this bug, but the work-around is a time-consuming hassle that you must remember to do (and probably won't remember to do) every time you save a new document. So, for example, if you create a new plain-text document, it is saved without the ".txt" extension, and therefore it is saved by Windows as an unknown file type, which Windows will not know how to handle when you try to open it. The bug causes the following problem: when saving a new document, your new document is saved without any extension. I absolutely vote thumbs-down on Notepad++ because it has a major bug that the program's author, Don Ho, refuses to fix.
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