Fredledingue Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Notepad2 is very nice looking at, but when I open a file more than 30Kb, it lags terribly. It takes ages to load the file, and scrolling is very slow.The strange thing is that it doesn't happend when I open an htm file with it.But for editing code specific software such as Notepad++ are better.Notepad should for txt files basicaly.Now, I would like to know how to revert to normal Notepad without uninstalling the package...even if I havev to use wordpad for large files.It would be great to have something like the old Notepad but without the file size limitation.All the Notpad replacement I have seen so far offer too many features. Not easy for handy notes, copy-paste, temporary saving text, quick reading, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horsecharles Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 That doesn't happen to me.... Try EditPad Lite -- very recommended also..... anything but original Notepad pls also getting mentioned often:Edxor& Notepad+MDGx Freeware Notepad Replacements List Mentions PFE......& lists many others..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gape Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 NotepadExTED NotepadMetaPadWin32Pad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGx Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Notepad2 is very nice looking at, but when I open a file more than 30Kb, it lags terribly. It takes ages to load the file, and scrolling is very slow.The strange thing is that it doesn't happend when I open an htm file with it.But for editing code specific software such as Notepad++ are better.Notepad should for txt files basicaly.Now, I would like to know how to revert to normal Notepad without uninstalling the package...even if I havev to use wordpad for large files.It would be great to have something like the old Notepad but without the file size limitation.All the Notpad replacement I have seen so far offer too many features. Not easy for handy notes, copy-paste, temporary saving text, quick reading, etcI'm actually considering replacing Notepad2 [quite primitive] in 98SE2ME with the more sofisticated PFE [my favorite ]. See details here:http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#TXT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredledingue Posted February 13, 2005 Author Share Posted February 13, 2005 Thanks!i choosed Metapad Works good. Only 95Kb extracted!Features:Persistent window placement Dirty file notification Intelligent Find and Replace External viewer support (e.g. web browser) Usable accelerator keys (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+N, etc.) Dual customizable font support Optional Quick Exit (Esc key) Configurable tab stop setting Auto-indent mode Go to Line/Column Seamless UNIX text file support Block indent and unindent (Tab, Shift+Tab) Recent files list WYSIWYG printing Snazzy status bar & funky toolbar No file size limit! (under Win9x) Hyperlink support User interface language pluginsBut why did you include Notepad2, it was realy not the editor of choice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredledingue Posted February 13, 2005 Author Share Posted February 13, 2005 PFE is very good too.Except there isn't one thing that is very important to me whatever the app: a resizable open dialog window.And PFE is already too advanced, it's like a script/code editor. My conception is that Notepad should be a minimal app just to see text quickely and type some infos inside.PFE could play this role, if it was set by default to look like notepad (no statu bar, no tool bar etc).The best would to ask the user what kind of Notepad they want during the installation process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vectis Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Choices, choices, choices.......................You can please some of the people all of the time,you can please all of the people some of the time,but you can't please ALL of the people ALL of the time.So my dear departed Mum would say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportster00 Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Hi,is there any free win98se replacment notepad or wordpad that support OCR and MS word format ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gape Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Hi,is there any free win98se replacment notepad or wordpad that support OCR and MS word format ?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Try Abiword: http://www.abisource.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportster00 Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Thanks gape, i will try it out.update: I have installed Abiword and i think i will keep it. Also removed wordpad from my OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredledingue Posted February 14, 2005 Author Share Posted February 14, 2005 Guys, epsecialy Gape,We are talking about Notepad replacement, not MS-Office Word replacement. personaly I don't want to have 5 rows of toolbars+a system bar, everytime I want to view a password saved in a txt file... (see above what I mean by notepad)Note that AbiWord looks great and would make a great replacement for Wordpad.. I will give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horsecharles Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Here you go Freddie: 46K only.... yes, there's 64K limit, but it's tiny in comparison........ http://freewarehome.com/software/newpad.htmlSmaller than Metapad & with no size limit, don't think this kind of animal exists...btw fetch your pw with this one, just hover your cursor over the file and see the first part of its stored text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredledingue Posted February 15, 2005 Author Share Posted February 15, 2005 Nobody has smaller? Horsecharles,It's good, but it realy looks too much like Notepad, except the windows tile option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horsecharles Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 This link didn't make it in the last post, Fred: http://www.contextmagic.com/ftp/InfoTagFreeSetup.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasinwa Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 I didn't see Notetab mentioned...it's always been very nice for me....(I like PSPad but it's too heavy for just text editing...).Of course go for the free version.....(I am the FreewareKing!!!)Notetabfyi, I have an amatuer freeware site if anyone is interested....I am lazy and it hasn't been updated in a while, but there are some nice links there...In case anyone cares!! FreewareKing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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