@Pieter: what about the bells and whistles? it isnt hard to disable unwanted toolboxes and taskbars?

there is only ONE thing in what PSPad disappoints me, i gotto save the file before i can run it. i would like to have autosave (gz on me i know how to script )

2) what I get as reply is:

Hmmm, you should try twiddling your thumbs while you wait. We’ll keep processing this request, but try resubmitting the comment. Then we’ll take whatever one comes back first.

3) Faced with this sort of “welcome”, I will certainly NOT waste any more time just to thank such people!

Versailles, Sat 30 Jul 2011 18:21:00 +0200

I enjoyed for years editing my HTML with Outlook Express and Notepad++ (OE for formatting after I dropped the TextFX Html Tidy in Notepad++ years ago because too unreliable: when source was complex, Tidy would too often cripple it and make it unable to render in Chrome or IE).

Now I recently replaced my previous laptop (Windows XP Pro Multilingual SP3, Chrome 12, IE6, OE6) but my new OS (Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit) unfortunately offers or accepts no replacement for the good old OE.

So I went [google.com]+HTML+source+in+Notepad%2B%2B which, among the myriads so-called “results”, gave me this valuable page. I had heard of PSPad long ago but the above reviews made me trust them and try PSPad (v4.5.5 unicode 2417 English 14 Mar 2011) – and I am glad I did: it does reformat the source, complete the missing closing tags (or closing slashes), indents it properly (+30% in volume) or shrinks it properly (-5% from original), all this with no error (rendering tested). Thanks!

Versailles, Sat 30 Jul 2011 18:09:20 +0200

“Main problem I have with PSPad (and where Notepad++ performed a bit better) is in dealing with HUGE files. For example, opening a several 100Mb log will bring PSPad to its knees. The only text editor I know (and have used in the past) that doesn’t have this limitation is UltraEdit-32, which also sports a slightly better hexeditor. But the price of UE32 is very high and it’s hard to beat ‘free’.”

I have used many text editors over the years and PSPad is one of the best I have seen. I mostly use TextPad for historic reasons, but discovered PSPad a while back and it has been slowly growing on me. I have also used UltraEdit-32, Notepad++, ISPF and Brief. This last one was a real favourite in the DOS days. I echo Grismar’s comments about large files, and Notepad++ and Textpad are better in this respect as is UltraEdit-32, but even UltraEdit can be floored by really HUGE files. By HUGE, I mean something like 50Gb (yes that’s Gigabytes). The ONLY editor I have seen handle these beasts is Vedit by Greenview data. This application cannot be beaten when you have a really large file to edit. It will load the file in seconds and pages the file in as required. It will also edit just about any file you like, binary or text.

Just my 10c worth…M

It is a bit of a shame that it’s not open, since this prevents people from adding features that the current author(s?) don’t get around to. On the other hand, PSPad is already so complete that it’s hard to think of serious features I would want to add.

Main problem I have with PSPad (and where Notepad++ performed a bit better) is in dealing with HUGE files. For example, opening a several 100Mb log will bring PSPad to its knees. The only text editor I know (and have used in the past) that doesn’t have this limitation is UltraEdit-32, which also sports a slightly better hexeditor. But the price of UE32 is very high and it’s hard to beat ‘free’.

Some annoying bugs have been around in PSpad for several years now though, so I get the feeling development has pretty much come to a standstill.