{"id":6873,"date":"2014-03-21T05:03:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T18:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2014-03-21T05:03:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T18:03:24","slug":"windows-text-editor-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/windows-text-editor-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Text Editor Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/UltraEdit\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Windows Text Editor Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/UltraEdit\/UltraEdit_Primer-99aof.JPG\" title=\"Windows Text Editor Primer Tutorial\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windows Text Editor Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many computer users may think that in this day and age a good text editor would not be needed.  As a programmer I&#8217;d disagree (and largely it will be people dealing with &#8220;sort of&#8221; non-proprietry text source (programming code) that will disagree).  You can do without Text Editors, especially if you use an <a target=_blank title='IDE information from Wikipedia' href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Integrated_development_environment'>IDE<\/a> with its own built-in editing arrangements.   It is true, that you can feel totally &#8220;looked after&#8221; by your favourite IDE, and never want to come out for air, which is great if you get to do everything you want to do.   Sometimes it is good to look back, though, and even though <a target=_blank title='Chortle, chortle ... well, it is March, after all' href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Je0gTnheVe4'>IDEs<\/a> (and Word Processors) might have caused the need for Text Editors to subside a bit, the Windows &#8220;Rolls Royce&#8221; Text Editor called UltraEdit (and UltraCompare) remain outstanding pieces of software, or rather, a suite of software.<\/p>\n<p>The thing about brilliant (Windows) Text Editors like UltraEdit is, that you don&#8217;t have to think of them as a total solution to anything, but an independent augmentary tool for you, especially with all the easy to reach functionality it provides.   Did you know, regarding UltraEdit, that it has functionality to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compare files for differences<\/li>\n<li>File type\/extension software code syntax understanding<\/li>\n<li>Search\/Replace with regular expression system (UltraEdit&#8217;s own)<\/li>\n<li>Search\/Replace in multiple files<\/li>\n<li>Hex editing<\/li>\n<li>Hotkeys with (recorded) macros and scripting<\/li>\n<li>Inhouse project facilities<\/li>\n<li>Encryption\/decryption<\/li>\n<li>Sort<\/li>\n<li>FTP\/Telnet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You will see from the <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/UltraEdit\/\" title=\"Click picture\">tutorial<\/a> today some visuals of this deep level of functionality to aid you with the creation or editing of files (normally text) on Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to IDM Computer Solution&#8217;s <a target=_blank title='download' href='http:\/\/ultraedit.com\/downloads.html'>download<\/a> area for UltraEdit and UltraCompare, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty obviously, UltraEdit is not the only Windows Text Editor out there, and you can use the Notepad and Wordpad that come with Windows to satisfy many requirements, and have, personally, been impressed by <a target=_blank title='TextPad download page' href='http:\/\/www.textpad.com\/download\/'>TextPad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d6873' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d6873\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?s=TextWrangler\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d6873' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many computer users may think that in this day and age a good text editor would not be needed. 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