How-To Geek

ZakirAhmed, please don't use BB code on the main forum page. Thanks.

Mike

Oh, sorry. I didn't know. I thought I was told to keep questions about BBCode off the main forum. You see, it wasn't too clear (http://www.howtogeek.com/forum.....tg-forums?).
I spent so long on that post that got changed by some mod, looking for features of about 30 text editors, comparing them and narrowing them down to a few, collecting their links and download links from different mirrors and now it got deleted.
Please, to the mod that deleted it, next time you change the post, have the decency to keep it somewhere so we can ask back for the hard work and so we can edit it.

@Hatryst. The big text was because I changed the font to 12. Something went wrong and it came out that big.

Thankyou vistamike. You were very helpful.

But I don't know how you were helpful.

There are so many good free NotePad alternatives which have many more features than notepad:

Windows:

- Notepad++
___(Download Link 1 | Download Link 2 | Download Link 3)

- Notepad2
___(Download Link 1 | Download Link 2 | Download Link 3)

- ConTEXT
___(Download Link)

- Crimson Editor
___(Download Link 1 | Download Link 2 | Download Link 3)

- Programmer's Notepad
___(Download Link 1 | Download Link 2 | Download Link 3)

- PSPad
___(Download Link 1 | Download Link 2)

.

Mac:

- Aquamacs
___(Download Link 1 | Download Link 2 | Download Link 3)

- Smultron
___(Download Link 1 | Download Link 2)

- TextWrangler
___(Download Link 1 | Download Link 2)

.

Both:

- Komodo Edit
___(Download Link 1 | Download Link 2: Windows - Mac - Linux)

- jEdit
___(Download Link 1 | Download Link 2 (Only Windows): | Download Link 3: Windows - Mac - Linux)

- Vim
___(Download Link 1 | Download Link 2: Windows - Mac - Linux)

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Best ones (In terms of features):
Windows: Notepad++
Mac: Aquamacs
Linux: Vim

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Click here to get a better (better layout) version of this post (http://www.howtogeek.com/forum.....ernatives?).

I just installed PC Wizard on my flash drive and it's pretty cool about telling you everything about a computer, including the peripherals. It says my nVidia GTS250 video card is running at 50c. Is that high?

mysterchr

Paint.net has a plugin pack if you didn't know:

http://paint.net.amihotornot.c.....uginsPack/

Team that with Fastone image Viewer and that just about covers all my photo file needs. :)

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm

Tony

LH, It's an awesome file manipulator for such a small package isn't it?

Tony, yep :)

I'll throw in this too,
http://getgreenshot.org/

And this one, which is proving very interesting with a project I'm working on at mo. Meant to include.

http://www.photopos.com/Photo-.....Editor.asp

Mike