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It's cute, but I can't help observing that we're what, 70 years into the computer age, and there's still no ubiquitous, small, fast, clean text editor present b
by TerraHertz 14y ago
It's cute, but I can't help observing that we're what, 70 years into the computer age, and there's still no ubiquitous, small, fast, clean text editor present by default on all personal computers. (DO NOT speak to me of Notepad.exe)
So discovering that 'by accident' web browsers can act as a simple (but huge, bloated and feature-starved) text editor seems like a big deal.
Personally I keep a simple, tiny, old freeware editor called Editpad 3.4, on every PC I use, accessed via desktop shortcut and 'right-click send-to'.
- DougBTX 14y ago"all" is tricky, there isn't a standard command on all computers to list the contents of a file, let alone edit. But even my WRT54G has vi installed on it, and you can expect to find emacs and vim on almost any *nix.
- epsylon 14y agoFirst thing I do on a new Windows machine is install Notepad2[1]. I highly recommend it, it greatly improves on Notepad.exe while keeping the spirit (simple, lightweight no bullshit editing). It can be configured to replace Notepad.exe automatically. [1]http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html