Yesterday, Developer Express released new versions of their fantastic tools CodeRush and Refactor! Pro (I already blogged about the latter today). I have made new versions of my two CodeRush plugins available, both compiled against the new CodeRush version 1.1.28. An important change was made to the OpenToolWindow plugin (find the original announcement for that one here), to make use of a property in the CodeRush core that’s now public. So if you want to use OpenToolWindow with CodeRush >= 1.1. …

I just decided to just let it run next to some other things. Worked nicely in VMWare, I don’t understand what all the people are talking about, what with the problems creating an installation partition. I just used the standard tool there was to create a new partition and format it - one minor glitch here, I had to reboot the installation between creating the partition and formatting it, because the format function would just do nothing at first. The installation process itself is funny. It sta …

This was a question in a newsgroup today: given the choice, is it better to test for multiple matches of a regular expression or to let the expression match multiple captures at the same time. My reply was that I thought multiple captures might involve less overhead in the regular expression engine because the capture matching is an intrinsic part of the engine algorithm, while finding multiple matches means running the expression against the input multiple times. But then I thought that the fi …

Here we go with another editor test, this time I took a look at EditPlus. You can find the introductional posting to this series here.

EditPlus is a commercial product by ES-Computing and it’s available from www.editplus.com. The version I tested was v2.12 (76).

First impressions

This program manages to show me two separate warnings on first startup, about the fact that I’m not a licensed user of the program. Why can’t they just let me get star …

I have now started to make a tabular overview of the tested text editors available. You can find it here and I will keep it updated with new results as I continue to test.

The second test in this series, which is the best text editor for me, is about TextPad.

TextPad is a commercial product by Helios Software Solutions and is available from www.textpad.com. The version I tested was 4.7.3.

First impressions

TextPad is one of those programs that for some reason always hide behind their open online help windows. This is something I find extremely inconvenient and I’m happy that I have multiple monitors — it would be …

So here it is, the first test result in my quest for the best text editor. I started with UltraEdit because I had recently downloaded the trial version of it, and because the web site makes full-bodied promises about it: UltraEdit the #1 selling, most powerful, value priced text editor available! The ideal text, HEX, HTML, PHP, Java, Perl, Javascript, and programmer’s editor!

UltraEdit-32 is a commercial product by IDM Computer Solutions, In …

I guess every computer user in the world has (been) asked that question at least once, and many have invested a lot of time in the quest for the best, if not the perfect, text editor. Apparently many aspects of the problem are a matter of taste, and the fact that the technical environments are changing all the time (and even faster for us programmers than for most other people) doesn’t make it any easier.

I have once again decided that I should have another look at what’s available and I thoug …