Wordpad alternative.

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fitwell

Well, guys, it's finally happened that I need a Wordpad replacement!!
This was has been the last to fall <g>.

Wordpad, what I have RTF defaulted to, doesn't support hotlinks (and
_no_ I hate Word so won't re-associate to that <g>!).

DIR2HTML has allowed me to go back and index all those folders that
have a ton of reading material in them but that are difficult to
access without an index. The folder I processed this morning has 221
text files, paragraphs captured using IE Text Archiver for a research
project. Well, DIR2HTML worked just fine. The resulting html index
didn't though. The text files are opened via MSIE from the index page
and none had any word wrap!!! This is _no_ good at all.

So, went and converted one file to RTF to see what I would find.
After disabling the danger warning box, as MSIE can't open RTF and
it's opened externally, found that word wrap is fine (naturally!).
But then I saw that, of course, all the hotlinks don't work because
Wordpad doesn't support them (unlike Metapad, my notepad replacement).

So here's hoping there a good one out there.

(The only alternative is to figure out how to get word wrap fixed in
text files read by MSIE?? No luck there in help file or googling.)

Cheers! :oD
 
Well, guys, it's finally happened that I need a Wordpad replacement!!
This was has been the last to fall <g>.

Wordpad, what I have RTF defaulted to, doesn't support hotlinks (and
_no_ I hate Word so won't re-associate to that <g>!).

DIR2HTML has allowed me to go back and index all those folders that
have a ton of reading material in them but that are difficult to
access without an index. The folder I processed this morning has 221
text files, paragraphs captured using IE Text Archiver for a research
project. Well, DIR2HTML worked just fine. The resulting html index
didn't though. The text files are opened via MSIE from the index page
and none had any word wrap!!! This is _no_ good at all.

So, went and converted one file to RTF to see what I would find.
After disabling the danger warning box, as MSIE can't open RTF and
it's opened externally, found that word wrap is fine (naturally!).
But then I saw that, of course, all the hotlinks don't work because
Wordpad doesn't support them (unlike Metapad, my notepad replacement).

So here's hoping there a good one out there.

(The only alternative is to figure out how to get word wrap fixed in
text files read by MSIE?? No luck there in help file or googling.)

Cheers! :oD
Click to expand...

Try this - I love it! Default file association is .rtf Less than 1mb
download.

Atlantis Nova (liteware) OS: Win9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
(English, Dutch)
Atlantis Nova is a small, fast word processor. With it's WYSIWYG
format, documents are displayed on the screen the way they will appear
when printed. Atlantis lets you work with up to 50 documents
simultaneously. It also supports many document formats (RTF, MS Word
6.0/95/97/2000, MS Write etc) as well as many graphics formats. With
it's advanced toolbars, you are only one-mouse-click-away from most
operations. More than 200 hotkeys are supported. Different zooming
factors and Easy Hand mode make viewing documents extremely
convenient. Other features include column support (including sum a
column of numbers), drag and drop editing, clippy bank, unlimited
document size, unlimited undo/redo, multiple ways to select text using
keyboard and mouse, find and replace, advanced wheel mouse support,
support for paragraph styles, a calculator integrated into the
document window and much more.
Author/Home Page: Rising Sun Solutions
http://www.rssol.com/en/html/download/first.htm
Download v 1.0.0.62 (970 KB)
http://www.rssol.com/en/html/download/nova.htm
(desc. rev.: 2003-02-16)
 
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DIR2HTML has allowed me to go back and index all those folders that
have a ton of reading material in them but that are difficult to
access without an index. The folder I processed this morning has 221
text files, paragraphs captured using IE Text Archiver for a research
project. Well, DIR2HTML worked just fine. The resulting html index
didn't though. The text files are opened via MSIE from the index page
and none had any word wrap!!! This is _no_ good at all.
Click to expand...

I asked over in an html group re the word-wrap in MSIE. Sometimes, we
can't see the forest for the trees <sigh>. There is no way to change
this, but I was asked why I didn't just convert the txt files to html?

Well, a dilemma. What to do? So I guess what will decide me is what
I can find to do first, txt-2-rtf or txt-2-html.

I've dl Atlantis and am going to check it out. However, I'm left with
the conversion problem anyway. No way am I going to go and manually
convert 221 txt files to anything! <g>

What does anyone think re going rtf or html?
 
Randy Bard said:
Try this - I love it! Default file association is .rtf Less than 1mb
download.

Atlantis Nova (liteware) OS: Win9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Click to expand...

If you use a browser where each file format can be set to open with
its default handler it works. Like Opera.

I set txt files to open with metapad, and rtf files to open with
atlantis, then the index files created by dir2html work like they
should.
 
Well, guys, it's finally happened that I need a Wordpad replacement!!
This was has been the last to fall <g>.
Click to expand...

I use Tiny EasyWord as a replacement for Wordpad, but it doesn't
support hotlinks and does a lousy job with HTML. Not supporting
hotlinks is common with word processors. 'specially free ones.

So is lousy html rendering.

WordPerfect ain't free, although it's pretty cheap in the Family Pack,
but it's what I use for this kind of cockamamie stuff.
Wordpad, what I have RTF defaulted to, doesn't support hotlinks (and
_no_ I hate Word so won't re-associate to that <g>!).
Click to expand...

Open Office supports hotlinks in RTF files. www.openoffice.org
DIR2HTML has allowed me to go back and index all those folders that
have a ton of reading material in them but that are difficult to
access without an index. The folder I processed this morning has 221
text files, paragraphs captured using IE Text Archiver for a research
project. Well, DIR2HTML worked just fine. The resulting html index
didn't though. The text files are opened via MSIE from the index page
and none had any word wrap!!! This is _no_ good at all.
Click to expand...

OO also does a fair job of rendering HTML pages. You need to play
with margins, but it does do a fair job.
So, went and converted one file to RTF to see what I would find.
After disabling the danger warning box, as MSIE can't open RTF and
it's opened externally, found that word wrap is fine (naturally!).
But then I saw that, of course, all the hotlinks don't work because
Wordpad doesn't support them (unlike Metapad, my notepad replacement).

So here's hoping there a good one out there.
Click to expand...

OO is a huge download for just this need, so if AbiWord, Crypt Edit,
Atlantis Nova or something else works, go for it.

On the other hand, if all you need is a dynamite word processor, Just
install that from the OO package, and you've got something almost as
functional as Word or WordPerfect.

OO has made it to prime time in the latest version.
 
Bill wrote:

On the other hand, if all you need is a dynamite word processor, Just
install that from the OO package, and you've got something almost as
functional as Word or WordPerfect.

OO has made it to prime time in the latest version.

End of Bill's note.

Prime Time? Ooooo, Ooooo, I don't think so.

Note the line where you say 'something almost as functional'.

Tried it for a month myself...doesn't compare but, it is freeware.

Stoney
 
I asked over in an html group re the word-wrap in MSIE. Sometimes, we
can't see the forest for the trees <sigh>. There is no way to change
this, but I was asked why I didn't just convert the txt files to html?
Click to expand...
Well, a dilemma. What to do? So I guess what will decide me is what
I can find to do first, txt-2-rtf or txt-2-html.
Click to expand...
I've dl Atlantis and am going to check it out. However, I'm left with
the conversion problem anyway. No way am I going to go and manually
convert 221 txt files to anything! <g>
Click to expand...
What does anyone think re going rtf or html?
Click to expand...

Hmmm, do the text files have word wrapping if you view one in an
editor? If so, one approach is to place all of your files into a
directory and zip it, recursively if necessary.

ZipScan will search the zip and list all files in it. Clicking on one
brings up my default text editor to display the file.

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/zipscan.html

You'll get compression and the ability to read the compressed files
with this method. If your files do not have word wrapping applied I
have a little utility to reformat them all identically. Use the
SM-DOALL.BAT on the directory:

SM_DOALL C:\MyTextFiles

http://www.woundedmoon.org/

I've tried it on ~1000 files. It should have no limit other than your
memory to open each file. It takes a few minutes to batch process all
..txt files in any directory and subdirectories.
 
The only RTF editor that supports links is Keynote. It is like Treepad,
but you can use it to edit individual notes. Each Keynote file can have
multiple tabs, and each tab can have multiple notes in a tree format.
Search for it on google.
 
The only RTF editor that supports links is Keynote.
Click to expand...

Keynote is an excellent program, but it cannot properly be considered
an RTF editor. For instance, try putting it on your sendto or in your
registry to handle .rtf docs.... (An RTF editor can be recognized by
its doing .rtf on the straight File Open/Save menu. Using richtext, and
having import/export options, that's a feature area, but does not make
a program fit within the RTF editor slot.)

As to which RTF editors can launch an http:\\ string that is in an rtf
doc, I just checked through a dozen or so. An answer of YES came from
these guys: Crypt Edit, Delphad Lite, Redback, and Wordtabs.

Stay away from Delphad Lite. It does wicked things. When I clicked the
http:\\ string, it rewrote a whole bunch of settings in my registry,
browser-related protocols, to point to a nonexistent folder, and naming
the handler rudely throughout as iexplore.exe. (Another example of its
bad personality: previously it had seized my .rtf association for itself,
no permission asked.)

Redback, don't bother looking it up. Unless you like huge rectangular blocks
for unmovable toolbar buttons, which make you feel like a toddler.

Wordtabs and Crypt Edit are each good candidates for the .rtf association,
especially if you want to be able to launch http:\\ from within the rtf doc.
(They can be found at pricelessware.org.)

.. . .

[Keynote]
It is like Treepad, but you can use it to edit individual notes. Each Keynote
file can have multiple tabs, and each tab can have multiple notes in a tree
format. Search for it on google.
Click to expand...

Not properly an RTF editor, as described above. Keynote has higher duties.
For instance, it might well be the most attractive solution ever offered,
freeware or payware, for well-structured information libraries. And, re
the subject, launching http:\\ from within its interface is one of the
features in its wide list of capabilities...
 
The only RTF editor that supports links is Keynote.
Click to expand...

Keynote is an excellent program, but it cannot properly be considered
an RTF editor. For instance, try putting it on your sendto or in your
registry to handle .rtf docs.... (An RTF editor can be recognized by
its doing .rtf on the straight File Open/Save menu. Using richtext, and
having import/export options, that's a feature area, but does not make
a program fit within the RTF editor slot.)

As to which RTF editors can launch an http:\\ string that is in an rtf
doc, I just checked through a dozen or so. An answer of YES came from
these guys: Crypt Edit, Delphad Lite, Redback, and Wordtabs.

Stay away from Delphad Lite. It does wicked things. When I clicked the
http:\\ string, it rewrote a whole bunch of settings in my registry,
browser-related protocols, to point to a nonexistent folder, and naming
the handler rudely throughout as iexplore.exe. (Another example of its
bad personality: previously it had seized my .rtf association for itself,
no permission asked.)

Redback, don't bother looking it up. Unless you like huge rectangular blocks
for unmovable toolbar buttons, which make you feel like a toddler.

Wordtabs and Crypt Edit are each good candidates for the .rtf association,
especially if you want to be able to launch http:\\ from within the rtf doc.
(They can be found at pricelessware.org.)

. . .

[Keynote]
It is like Treepad, but you can use it to edit individual notes. Each Keynote
file can have multiple tabs, and each tab can have multiple notes in a tree
format. Search for it on google.
Click to expand...

Not properly an RTF editor, as described above. Keynote has higher duties.
For instance, it might well be the most attractive solution ever offered,
freeware or payware, for well-structured information libraries. And, re
the subject, launching http:\\ from within its interface is one of the
features in its wide list of capabilities...
Click to expand...

Omega, THANK YOU very much for the comprehensive write-up and what to
avoid. I had given up on this one as some had written http:// would
not be handled. But it's great that Wordtabs and Crypt Edit can.
I've tried Treepad but I'm not a fan of it, but haven't tried the
other two. <fingers crossed>.

Thanks and cheers!
 
DIR2HTML has allowed me to go back and index all those folders that
have a ton of reading material in them but that are difficult to
access without an index. The folder I processed this morning has 221
text files, paragraphs captured using IE Text Archiver for a research
project. Well, DIR2HTML worked just fine. The resulting html index
didn't though. The text files are opened via MSIE from the index page
and none had any word wrap!!! This is _no_ good at all.

So, went and converted one file to RTF to see what I would find.
After disabling the danger warning box, as MSIE can't open RTF and
it's opened externally, found that word wrap is fine (naturally!).
Click to expand...

I figured out how to make MSIE launch the .txt files with an external
application. I don't know if its something you want to set that way. At
least for curiosity, here is the hack I used that changes the behavior.

----------------------------------------------------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt]
"Content Type"="application/x-msdownload"

-----------------------------------------------------

It's that "Content Type" value. The normal read for that .txt key is
"Content Type"="text/plain," which leads MSIE to decide: "Well I have
innate filters for that, I'm going to do it myself."

This change in the key above, I got the idea by copying the value from
HKCR\.exe, since MSIE by default doesn't try to render that filetype.

With this setting, on first run, you get that MSIE prompt about Always
Ask, Never Ask, etc, and you can choose what you prefer. From there the
hyperlinks to .txt content will result in MSIE launching your default
notepad / txt ed.

If you want to experiment with the hack, then just back up the key
first, or else memorize that it's normally supposed to read "Content
Type"="text/plain".

As mentioned, this one value change was all that was needed on my (w98)
system. If you don't get the same result, it might be that you have a
CLSID, pointing to MSIE, under the TXT filetype key (TXT filetype key
is usually "txtfile", but can be whatever is named under the .txt key),
which is interfering. I didn't test what would be the result if that
exists.

Easiest is just that you test at your end, if interested, the one value
change, and see what MSIE does after that when you click a .txt hyperlink.
(Btw, probably you will need to have MSIE closed and restarted for the reg
change to take effect.)
 
Sietse Fliege said:
Also TextShield Fusion : http://members.lycos.nl/textshield/
Click to expand...

This is a nice one. I'd forgot to check it, glad you bring it in.

Choosing between Crypt Edit, Wordtabs, and TextShield, for default .rtf
handler... For me, that would be a speed test, who is the most instant.
If speeds are very close, then it would be a matter of features. And looks.

In looks, I view Textshield an easy winner. So very pretty, reminds me
of an exotic tiger.
 
Omega, THANK YOU very much for the comprehensive write-up and what to
avoid. I had given up on this one as some had written http:// would
not be handled. But it's great that Wordtabs and Crypt Edit can.
I've tried Treepad but I'm not a fan of it, but haven't tried the
other two. <fingers crossed>.

Thanks and cheers!
Click to expand...

I'm glad to hear. :) I think you'll find they load up pretty fast, both
these. Sietse just added TextFusion, too, another that is not part of the
overlarge word processor tribe.

If you request, for instance, Crypt Edit, to take the .rtf association, it
will make a new filetype in your registry. Instead of .rtf being linked up
with an "rtffile" filetype key, it will be linked up with a new filetype
key, named like "crypt edit." A practice parallel to what you see when
telling, for example, Irfanview, to take some associations.

This might give you a degree of protection from the annoyance you've
mentioned (and I've witnessed too, but with details only fuzzy) about MS
Word taking things over. Word might still try to change the .rtf key (naming
a different filetype key for the association), but it won't be able to mess
up your main key, the eg "cryptedit document" filetype key. Leave you only
having to backup the first small key, when needing to restore from hostile
takeovers.

If the above was incoherent, esp given the disadvantage of trying to refer
to something that is visual, then apologies. It was just rambling. The only
important thing here is that you get success in choosing your best candidate
for default rtf handler...
 
I'm glad to hear. :) I think you'll find they load up pretty fast, both
these. Sietse just added TextFusion, too, another that is not part of the
overlarge word processor tribe.

If you request, for instance, Crypt Edit, to take the .rtf association, it
will make a new filetype in your registry. Instead of .rtf being linked up
with an "rtffile" filetype key, it will be linked up with a new filetype
key, named like "crypt edit." A practice parallel to what you see when
telling, for example, Irfanview, to take some associations.

This might give you a degree of protection from the annoyance you've
mentioned (and I've witnessed too, but with details only fuzzy) about MS
Word taking things over. Word might still try to change the .rtf key (naming
a different filetype key for the association), but it won't be able to mess
up your main key, the eg "cryptedit document" filetype key. Leave you only
having to backup the first small key, when needing to restore from hostile
takeovers.

If the above was incoherent, esp given the disadvantage of trying to refer
to something that is visual, then apologies. It was just rambling. The only
important thing here is that you get success in choosing your best candidate
for default rtf handler...
Click to expand...

omega, thanks! I just wanted to mention that after a reinstall, I go
into registry and delete the two references to RTF that word leaves
then right-click to get the OPEN WITH... context item (since I'm in
Win98SE), and then associate RTF to WordPad and then Word never
bothers me again. Of course, it would if I accidentally opened an RTF
somehow in Word, but that's no easy to do. So just an fyi that Word's
proprietary nature _can_ be circumvented quite easily through rededit
re RTF.

Great, have been sick for a few days, nearly went to the hospital, so
lost a few days. But now feeling much better and raring to get back
to things. I've accomplished major goals so there's just these few
items, like finding a good Wordpad replacement, left to tie up and I
think I can then get back to work. I believe, and hope, the worst is
over. It's amazing that so many issues that I had carrying over for
several years found solution to in last 2 months. Thanks to a lot of
help here, for sure!

Cheers and thanks once again!
 
DIR2HTML has allowed me to go back and index all those folders that
have a ton of reading material in them but that are difficult to
access without an index. The folder I processed this morning has 221
text files, paragraphs captured using IE Text Archiver for a research
project. Well, DIR2HTML worked just fine. The resulting html index
didn't though. The text files are opened via MSIE from the index page
and none had any word wrap!!! This is _no_ good at all.

So, went and converted one file to RTF to see what I would find.
After disabling the danger warning box, as MSIE can't open RTF and
it's opened externally, found that word wrap is fine (naturally!).
Click to expand...

I figured out how to make MSIE launch the .txt files with an external
application. I don't know if its something you want to set that way. At
least for curiosity, here is the hack I used that changes the behavior.

----------------------------------------------------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt]
"Content Type"="application/x-msdownload"

-----------------------------------------------------

It's that "Content Type" value. The normal read for that .txt key is
"Content Type"="text/plain," which leads MSIE to decide: "Well I have
innate filters for that, I'm going to do it myself."

This change in the key above, I got the idea by copying the value from
HKCR\.exe, since MSIE by default doesn't try to render that filetype.

With this setting, on first run, you get that MSIE prompt about Always
Ask, Never Ask, etc, and you can choose what you prefer. From there the
hyperlinks to .txt content will result in MSIE launching your default
notepad / txt ed.

If you want to experiment with the hack, then just back up the key
first, or else memorize that it's normally supposed to read "Content
Type"="text/plain".

As mentioned, this one value change was all that was needed on my (w98)
system. If you don't get the same result, it might be that you have a
CLSID, pointing to MSIE, under the TXT filetype key (TXT filetype key
is usually "txtfile", but can be whatever is named under the .txt key),
which is interfering. I didn't test what would be the result if that
exists.

Easiest is just that you test at your end, if interested, the one value
change, and see what MSIE does after that when you click a .txt hyperlink.
(Btw, probably you will need to have MSIE closed and restarted for the reg
change to take effect.)
Click to expand...

Aweseome, omega! The funny thing is that after this wipe/reinstall,
it's not doing that anymore. All text files now _do_ have wordwrap.
Very odd. So I'm okay for now.

But I'm _definitely_ saving this message so that if it ever happens
again, have steps I can follow.

I'm guessing that it was due, perhaps, to my system being very
buggy(?). Maybe that somehow affected the registry so that the
display then was incorrect. Who knows why errors of this type start
occurring all of a sudden, eh?

Thanks!
 
The only RTF editor that supports links is Keynote.
Click to expand...

Keynote is an excellent program, but it cannot properly be considered
an RTF editor. For instance, try putting it on your sendto or in your
registry to handle .rtf docs.... (An RTF editor can be recognized by
its doing .rtf on the straight File Open/Save menu. Using richtext, and
having import/export options, that's a feature area, but does not make
a program fit within the RTF editor slot.)

As to which RTF editors can launch an http:\\ string that is in an rtf
doc, I just checked through a dozen or so. An answer of YES came from
these guys: Crypt Edit, Delphad Lite, Redback, and Wordtabs.

Stay away from Delphad Lite. It does wicked things. When I clicked the
http:\\ string, it rewrote a whole bunch of settings in my registry,
browser-related protocols, to point to a nonexistent folder, and naming
the handler rudely throughout as iexplore.exe. (Another example of its
bad personality: previously it had seized my .rtf association for itself,
no permission asked.)

Redback, don't bother looking it up. Unless you like huge rectangular blocks
for unmovable toolbar buttons, which make you feel like a toddler.

Wordtabs and Crypt Edit are each good candidates for the .rtf association,
especially if you want to be able to launch http:\\ from within the rtf doc.
(They can be found at pricelessware.org.)

. . .

[Keynote]
It is like Treepad, but you can use it to edit individual notes. Each Keynote
file can have multiple tabs, and each tab can have multiple notes in a tree
format. Search for it on google.
Click to expand...

Not properly an RTF editor, as described above. Keynote has higher duties.
For instance, it might well be the most attractive solution ever offered,
freeware or payware, for well-structured information libraries. And, re
the subject, launching http:\\ from within its interface is one of the
features in its wide list of capabilities...
Click to expand...

Well, since it was a question of just choosing, I went to look at the
webpages of each program, Wordtabs and Crypt Edit. When I saw all the
toolbars and icons for Crypt Edit, that decided it for me. Also, it
as a slightly smaller size than WordTabs so that did it for me.

I just installed it and it nicely tool over associating RTF so I
didn't have to fiddle. Also, went to check and it didnt' change the
DOC association which is also very good. I run into Word documents at
the office and sometimes have to bring work home, so do need Word even
though I don't care for it.

Very nice editor. I like how it looks and acts, so far. And it
_does_ work re the hotlinks feature. Clicked on a few http:// and
launched MSIE and got me to the page just fine.

Very nice. If nothing changes, I think I can recommend this one
whole-heartedly, too. Will see how it stands the test of time.

p.s., do you know how to get rid of the splash screen? Granted it
stays up only a fraction of a second, but I really _hate_ splash
screens as a principle.

Thanks!

(Wow!!! I just realized something as I was looking at an RTF page. I
save any Agent messages in RTF so that I can colour-code them. i.e,
all lines in a message that start with ">" are blue. So I can do that
in RTF, which is why I've never saved them in TXT format. They're
easier to read with colour. But now all URLs on those pages are
working. I _can_ have my cake and eat it, too!!)
 
The only RTF editor that supports links is Keynote. It is like Treepad,
but you can use it to edit individual notes. Each Keynote file can have
multiple tabs, and each tab can have multiple notes in a tree format.
Search for it on google.
Click to expand...

CryptEdit does this just fine! And it's a true wordprocessor type of
app not a treepad-type, which I personally don't care for. Just an
fyi.

Cheers!
 
fitwell said:
Aweseome, omega! The funny thing is that after this wipe/reinstall,
it's not doing that anymore. All text files now _do_ have wordwrap.
Very odd. So I'm okay for now.

I'm guessing that it was due, perhaps, to my system being very
buggy(?). Maybe that somehow affected the registry so that the
display then was incorrect. Who knows why errors of this type start
occurring all of a sudden, eh?
Click to expand...

??? Gee. On my system, when MSIE 5.5 displays txt files, it is not wrapping
them. Also, didn't you mention having posted in some other group, about the
situation? Did people there seem to accept the non-wrapping as a given, or
did they seem to view it as dependent on system config? Are you certain that
the txt files you're viwing with MSIE now, that they don't happen to be ones
with hard-breaks? Given your certain, etc, then it would be me, like you
earlier, who has a bug, or is missing a setting...
 
fitwell said:
Well, since it was a question of just choosing, I went to look at the
webpages of each program, Wordtabs and Crypt Edit. When I saw all the
toolbars and icons for Crypt Edit, that decided it for me. Also, it
as a slightly smaller size than WordTabs so that did it for me.

I just installed it and it nicely tool over associating RTF so I
didn't have to fiddle. Also, went to check and it didnt' change the
DOC association which is also very good. I run into Word documents at
the office and sometimes have to bring work home, so do need Word even
though I don't care for it.
Click to expand...

You noticed that Crypt Edit gives support for opening some files of early
Word doc format (at least basic Word docs, not complex tables etc). Handy
for quick view, so can always manually config it as an alternate action,
eg "View," on your context-menu. For complex docs, and yes, for editing
those docs, different matter...and I too call up the native beast, Winword.

It's the main thing, as you sought, a relief to have a good small editor
for RTF, not be stuck with Wordpad, and not have to use a great big word
processor.
Very nice editor. I like how it looks and acts, so far. And it
_does_ work re the hotlinks feature. Clicked on a few http:// and
launched MSIE and got me to the page just fine.

Very nice. If nothing changes, I think I can recommend this one
whole-heartedly, too. Will see how it stands the test of time.
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It's stood the test of time for me. I've used it for my default RTF viewer
for some three years. The only weak point is that it's the "last freeware
version;" the author later moved to a payware model. Still, this one has
enough features and strengths - balanced together with enough lightness and
speed - that I expect to keep using it for a very long while to come.
p.s., do you know how to get rid of the splash screen? Granted it
stays up only a fraction of a second, but I really _hate_ splash
screens as a principle.
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I dislike splash screens, too. For disabling it, there is nothing in the
options. No magic launch parameter in the readme, either. So I think we're
out of luck on this point.
(Wow!!! I just realized something as I was looking at an RTF page. I
save any Agent messages in RTF so that I can colour-code them. i.e,
all lines in a message that start with ">" are blue. So I can do that
in RTF, which is why I've never saved them in TXT format. They're
easier to read with colour. But now all URLs on those pages are
working. I _can_ have my cake and eat it, too!!)
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I've planned on setting up one of the text editors that lets you customize
its syntax highlighters, to have itcolorize after the quote characters (>).
I see that Crypt Edit has a few syntax highlighters, yet honestly I've not
poked around with them. Is this what you're using? And with Agent, how do
you mean, "save in RTF"? I'm most interested in trying whatever you managed
here. But I'm lost...what were the steps?
 
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