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Posted by criss
Dec 25, 2006 at 06:03 PM

> Chriss, Derek, Wes and all, I have now downloaded EditPad, UltraEdit, and Emeditor—talk about a major CRIMP attack—must be the devilishly short hours of
> daylight on the Canadian Prairies at this time of year.
> So, any thoughts on how they compare with each other, or what I should be looking for?

Daly, these three programs are all very capable with Ultraedit perhaps the most complete one. All support syntax highlighting, tree view, spell check, macros, outlining = code folding.
It’s more a mattter of taste (EditPad Pro lacks search and replace in files). You can try just one of them, I would recommend Ultraedit (very good forum) or Emeditor (slim, plugins).

There is one thing I want to add regarding the text only approach.
I used many information managers but I never put much information outside the document itself (organisation, tree, ...) because this is so difficult to export/import. So I always tried to get as much as possible directly into the text (title, tags, links, dates). Fe. instead of attachments I use file-links (which are easily invoked via double clicking even in editors).
So it’s easy to transport the information between different programs (to alleviate the effects of CRIMP).

Best regards
Christian