March 10, 2003
Only the best freeware
One of the posts that were lost when I moved hosts was a rant about the ratings on tucows. Programmers Notepad got 4 cows, which is great - but I thought that some of the criteria on which programs are judged were a little, um, less than clever.
One of the comments on the rant included a link to "Only the best freeware", a website which aims to include only the best pieces of software in any category - to avoid visitors having to scroll through hundreds of identical or similar entries in any one. What a great idea!
Unfortunately, ConTEXT is currently their "best-of-breed" text editor. A good goal for programmers notepad 2 is to change this.
Patrick Houweling from onlythebestfreeware.com:
I've tried a zillion editors, and currently I'm using ConTEXT, which is therefore also listed on OTBF. While PN1 is a very good editor and has some features ConTEXT doesn't have (open from the internet, find in multiple files, customize keyboard shortcuts, HTML preview), it misses a two things I really need in an editor:
1) An easy way to create my own language schemes. I've never really understood the SyntaxMemo stuff. Hopefully the PN2 schemes are easier to set up.
2) Parsing of a tool's output. I'd like a double-click in the output pane to take me to the corresponding line in the editor. I've found no way to do this in PN.
regards, Patrick
I should point out that PN1 does support a simplistic implementation of request 2, in that it does recognise line numbers in the form: "line: nn" but I completely agree that this needs improvement. I'm happy to say that both of these things are planned (eventually) for programmers notepad 2. The second is planned for the next release.
link: Only the best freeware.
Posted by Simon at March 10, 2003 07:47 PM