There is a standard Find and Replace dialog, with Replace All. I've found
it /extremely rare/ to see less than that; thegun might be one of the
exceptions, plus maybe the occasional schoolchild's "mynotepad" project.
Then some editors have /enhanced/ S+R dialogs. It's a distinguishing feature
area I always look for and much appreciate.... Yet what I assume you mean
here is not more than the standardized S+R dialog as your minimum.
Taken as a given...
I don't know what this means? Other than "confirm close on exit." I vaguely
recall just one who does that, but it's an optional setting. I can't think
of what else you might be describing...
I'm using the previous no-reg group of editors that I listed (which I'm
leaving appended to the end of this post) Then assessing those against
your other criteria -- about file size, and font/color settings.
File size limit, I tested with a 9mb file. That kills from the list Fooke's
Mini-Notetab, and Quick Editor, and Protivia Lite, all of whom state their
limits. It also eliminates Hapedit, on whom I gave up waiting after 30 sec.
While opening that file, I tried to count time, very sloppy method, keep in
mind. But results anyway to grouped into relative speed.
Fast:
thegun, padded, shalom texttools, synnote, scite
Medium:
pitpad, win32pad, kankowski edit, ted text, prolix, notetab, tinn
Slower:
BDV notepad, mdipad, editpad, xpad
Btw, I noticed that a few were slowed when exiting when they'd had the 9mb;
while others, no delay. But I didn't bother to take records on this. Oh,
and an important note. I tested only the relative time for them to load the
file - once they'd already been launched. If you were to do a test where you
time [launch + open large file] as the same action, those results might be
more important, depending on your habits and needs... Finally, I didn't test
for +2gb handling. I didn't read in that you needed anything more than the
10mb stated.
For color selections, I forgot to explicitly look for font color, and only
looked for background color. But I should think that any time background
color settings are offered, then font color would be as well...
Those who offer selection of any font, as well background color settings:
win32pad: yes
pitpad: yes
kankowski yes
mdipad: yes
synnote: yes
codedit: yes
editpad*: yes
(*but speaking of customizations, can't move toolbar in Lite ver)
Those who offer selection of any font; but no background color settings:
bdv notepad: no background color
ted: no background color
xpad: no background color
prolix: fixed pitch fonts only
tinn: fixed pitch fonts only
shalom: fixed pitch only
notetab: fonts, no? (can't find, and the prefs dialog is from hell)
padded: nada
thegun: nada
scite: no fonts choice. bground colors not in the normal way at
least. for simplicity, mark as no (discount that it might be
poss. on a per-filetype syntax settings deal, after rtfm).
..
Well, gee, suddenly we're down to seven. At least one or two of those I
could probably knock off the list, as lacking appropriateness in some way,
if I thought it over. Editpad, you have a pre-existing relationship with
that, and keep talking about taking it to a counselor to resolve the issues,
but currently want separation... So, then there's be about four of these
left to consider over...
Probably at this juncture I ought wait until you post back before a next
round of analysis...
--
Karen S.
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editors analyzed
=============================================================================
NO REGISTRY: SETTINGS FILE INSTEAD
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[SDI]
pitpad (ini in windir)
win32pad (local ini)
thegun and quick editor (?)
BDV notepad (local binary file for settings)
kankowski edit (local binary)
ted text (local binary)
[MDI]
mdipad (local ini)
prolix (local ini)
[TABD]
editpad (local ini)
notetab and mini notetab (local ini)
padded (local ini)
shalom texttools (local ini)
xpad (local ini)
[SYNTAX]
synnote [sdi] (local ini)
protivia lite [sdi] (local ini)
codeEdit (local ini)
hapedit (local ini)
scite (local ini)
tinn (ini in windir)
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