New Release of Notepad2 - Updated (again) with Ruby Support
I'm a big fan of Notepad2. I have used a ton of text editors, but I keep coming back to Notepad2. Partially because it's one better than Notepad, but mostly just because it feels very natural. Notepad++ is nice, but still, I'm drawn to Notepad2.
After nearly three years of silence, Florian Balmer of Flo's Freeware has updated Notepad2! You can get the latest version here directly from Flo, as well as the C++ source.
There's some cool changes in this version, including the removal of settings from the Registry. They're stored in a .ini file now, which makes Notepad2 more appropriate as a Portable App.
Here's a few of the changes that I'm enjoying (full list of changes here):
- "Insert HTML/XML Tag" helper tool (Alt+X)
- Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
- BSD License for Notepad2 and source code (see License.txt)
- Multiline find and replace
- Find and replace dialogs are now modeless
- File change notification (optional)
- "Duplicate Selection" command (Alt+D)
And dozens and dozens more small improvements. Let's all congratulate Flo on his triumphant return!
Unfortunately, Ruby as a syntax highlighting scheme still isn't included in this distribution, and while I want the new Notepad2, I can't give up the Ruby support added before by Wesner. So, I took the source of the New Notepad2 used Beyond Compare and Rubyified it, again. If you want to build it yourself, you have to get the source for Scintilla first, then modify it to change some Lexer linking stuff (see the Notepad2 readme.txt).
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/Jesper
Jesper - I don't know, kind of hard to beat one of the biggest aspects of Notepad2: it's free and open-source.
http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2007/04/19/notepad2-update-released/
Perhaps I should create another installer for the Ruby-enabled version as well.
I've got to second Jesper's comment above. I've worked my way through all of the usual suspects all the while lusting after TextMate on my friends' macs. And then along came e-texteditor. It is currently in a beta phase but has full TextMate bundle support so already has a whole community and history pre-installed.
As for free and open source Jason, you're right it is not. If that is important then as you say, Notepad 2 is for you. If you can stretch to the princely sum of $30 though you'll realise that the text-editor bar has definitely been raised on Windows.
I've linked to some stuff around e and console as a rails environment...
Graham
I don`t understand where I make a mistake. I download your edited Notepad2 with Ruby syntax highlightning, run it, open my ruby sources and don`t see the highlight feature. Have you any suggestions?
Dmitry.
Oh BTW, they just released Ubuntu 7.04. I installed it and I'm very impressed. I got a laptop that has Vista and Ubuntu 7 now!
One, download Scintilla (I didn't redist it).
Two, change some headers (a lexer define) per Flo's readme.
Three, add the Ruby lexer to the project
Thanks. I didn't RTFM, clearly. Once I downloaded Scintilla, the main Notepad2 app did compile, but failed to link. When I get some time, I'll look into it further. I'm interested in expanding the HTML tag insertion.
#define LINK_LEXER(lexer) void(0)
I stick with Notepad++ which is more featured swiss-knife to edit my ruby files.
well is anybody here able to compile ruby files using any of the editors mentioned above ???
I haven't succeeded and if u drop me a line
~rd
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Any reason you prefer Notepad2 over SciTE, the Scintilla editor?
BTW, I noticed you're a big PowerShell fan. Are you using Vista yet? Because if so, you may be interested in my PowerShell Sidebar gadget.
Cheers,
Andrew.