Even better notepad.exe

re: Even better notepad.exe

James — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:25:00 GMT

Excellent program. I can't believe something with all that functionality still starts up instantaneously!

If you want to get around Windows File Protection and completely replace the orginal notepad with it read this little section from the metapad faq.
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/faq.html#Q28

re: Even better notepad.exe

karl — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:03:00 GMT

as far as I'm concerned, EditPadPro can't be beat:
http://www.editpadpro.com/

there's a powerful free version too.

Nothing beats http://www.TextPad.com

Jim Cheseborough — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:07:00 GMT

http://www.TextPad.com

re: Even better notepad.exe

Todd Spatafore — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:10:00 GMT

Thanks for the tip. It'd be nice if I could open multiple files at once though (ala EditPad). But I like the "Second Default Scheme"

re: Even better notepad.exe

Omar Shahine — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:26:00 GMT

Todd-

Uncheck Settings->Reuse Window

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re: Even better notepad.exe

Todd Spatafore — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:14:00 GMT

Omar-

good call, still would like to have tabs, pretty good though, I've been using it all day and it truly is a transparent replacement/upgrade for notepad.

When you change the insides, nobody notices

The Old New Thing — Tue, 25 May 2004 17:00:00 GMT

Calc and Notepad changed. Did you notice?

re: Even better notepad.exe

Klaus H. Probst [MVP} — Tue, 25 May 2004 21:45:00 GMT

Here's a mondo list of editors to choose from, in case someone wants something other than Notepad2 =)

http://www.vbbox.com/tools/editors/

re: Even better notepad.exe

Joku — Thu, 27 May 2004 12:03:00 GMT

There's no problem replacing files protected by the file protection, just go to command line and copy the new notepad to system32 and system32\dllcache under about 2 seconds and windows won't notice a thing.

One bad thing about the Notepad2 is that cause it's based on Scintilla ( http://www.scintilla.org/ ) (it's scintilla actually, just with Notepad-looks) - the scintilla component doesn't support the middle button scrolling that's the Big Feature of why I always used IE instead of (other browser which implements it poorly- opera, mozilla etc).

re: Even better notepad.exe

Richard — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:04:00 GMT

Joku,

Could you elaborate on that, because I am using Notepad2 here under Windows XP Pro with a usb optical scroll mouse and the scroll wheel works fine for me. Or are you talking about clicking the middle button to bring up that automatic scroll when you move the mouse up and down? No, I can't do that, but to me that is no big deal. FYI, this feature works much better in Firefox than before if you want to check it out.

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