A quick question about Notepad (Windows).

Is there a way to make it always view "all files" in the open file menu? I use Notepad for HTML all the time, and it's annoying to have to choose "all files" every time.

Can't help, but I'm an old school Notepad user too, so let me know what you find.

Haha! Thanks for the image, I'm gonna use that

If you've got a hex editor then you can patch it to default to *.* instead of *.txt

If you've got the XP version of Notepad which is 66048 bytes:

Change byte 7C0 to 2A from 74
Change byte 7C2 to 00 from 78
Change byte 7C4 to 00 from 74

The text in the combo box is wrong now but it's only a cosmetic thing

- Trevor

Is there a way to make it always view "all files" in the open file menu?

Yes.

Replace it with UltraEdit.

Or TextPad, which I prefer.

Woohoo, UltraEdit vs. TextPad religious argument. It's been a while .

Can the Unix folks participate too? Does Textpad team up with vi or emacs?

Edit:
bla, s/Note/Text/

/Michael

At empeg, some people use TextPad and some squirrelly rsh scripts, specifically to avoid having to run emacs or vi. The rest of us run emacs of one flavour or another.

Personally, I'm an xemacs guy, unless it's a really quick edit, in which case, 'vi' is easier to type .

How's that for fence-sitting?

How's that for fence-sitting?

Hey! Yer sittin' on my spot of the fence!

PICO!

I'll put my vote in for TextPad.

Im gonna send up the flag for notetab which has to win cos its an excuse to visit a website with a .ch domain!

(and it's a pretty good text editor)

I can't believe you started a text editor war without me!

vi all the way! Emacs csucks!

Loren has this one right. It's all about pico. Nothing fancy. It won't give you nightmares of parenthesis from trying to implement your own mail reader in emacs.... It is, however, twice as long to type as vi, but still a letter shorter than emacs. All i want is the nifty color-coding that emacs can do for code, but I live wihtout that.

Matthew

Years ago I used Brief, ut then got completely hooked on the DOS version of MultiEdit . In the DOS world it was, for all intents and purposes, its own little IDE. Then Windows came along and MultiEdit went thataway.

One feature it had and that I loved was the ability to collapse a file (for quick navigation) using a function key based on user-defined customs strings. So, in function headers, I'd add a redundant function statement behind a custom comment string like "#*# function" then could hit <F4> and the file would collapse to just those comments. Move the cursor to the desired function, then hit <F4> to expand.

Maybe this is now a really common feature. Anyhow, can anyone recommend a Linux-capable editor/IDE that includes syntax highlighting for C, C++ and others and that includes a "collapse" capability (without having to build it myself in Emacs!).

Thanks!

Anyhow, can anyone recommend a Linux-capable editor/IDE that includes syntax highlighting for C, C++ and others and that includes a "collapse" capability (without having to build it myself in Emacs!).

Vim!

The IDE in Microsoft's ".NET" development environment does collapsible functions automatically, without even needing to change the syntax.

/me ducks, covers head, and runs out of the room.

Well, fair enough. I didn't make any stipulation about ease of use! I run Vim, but perhaps I wasn't using the right nomenclature to find its version of a collapse feature.

Is this an example what you mean?:

FOLDTEXT *fold-foldtext*

'foldtext' is a string option that specifies an expression. This expression is evaluated to obtain the text displayed for a closed fold. Example:

:set foldtext=v:folddashes.substitute(getline(v:foldstart),'/\\*\\\|\\*/\\\|{{{\\d\\=','','g')

This shows the first line of the fold, with "/*", "*/" and "{{{" removed.
Note the use of backslashes to avoid some characters to be interpreted by the ":set" command. It's simpler to define a function and call that:

:set foldtext=MyFoldText()
:function MyFoldText()
: let line = getline(v:foldstart)
: let sub = substitute(line, '/\*\|\*/\|{{{\d\=', '', 'g')
: return v:folddashes . sub
:endfunction

Evaluating 'foldtext' is done in the |sandbox|. The current window is set to the window that displays the line. Errors are ignored.

Of have I perhaps headed down the wrong Vim alley?

The IDE in Microsoft's ".NET" development environment does collapsible functions automatically, without even needing to change the syntax.

Now functionally, that's really what I want. It looks from this that the Windows version of MultiEdit now does that via syntax instead of my old kludge (but no Linux version...).

Don't worry, Tony, someone will read your message who *would* touch .NET with a 10-foot insulated pole with rubber boots on!

Yup. It's not difficult to use, it just doesn't understand every language's syntax, so you have to place markers specifically (:help fold-markers). You can also define where to fold in the same syntax file that defines coloring (:help fold-syntax), which should be more transparent, but I've not played with this yet.

Yup. It's not difficult to use, it just doesn't understand every language's syntax, so you have to place markers specifically (:help fold-markers). You can also define where to fold in the same syntax file that defines coloring (:help fold-syntax), which should be more transparent, but I've not played with this yet.


Thanks. I'll take some time and give it a thought.

Geez, come to think of it, when I went to the grocery store earlier today, there was a guy sitting outside with a sign that said "Will Evaluate Regular Expressions for Food" . I should run back over and see if he's still there!

TextPad all the way. Been using it for years, and not about to stop now.

Mmm - UltraEdit under Winblows, vi under Linux, Jot under Irix.

Now what did I used to use on my Osborne cp/m box?

BBEdit.

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit.html

_owen

Seconded. If you're a Mac user, that is.

I use a little freeware editor called PFE
Am I the only one?
I'm with loren on pico...I never had the discipline to learn vi