Posted by gene on 15. June 2005 14:32
I use notepad all the time. Whether I'm on the phone, or building a tasklist, or outlining a project, I pop open notepad before I consider opening another tool for two reasons:
- Fewer options means fewer distractions. I prefer text only email, and if I have formatting tools, I spend too much time trying to make something pretty rather than getting the facts down.
- I'm frequently looking over code and notepad loads much faster than dreamweaver or visual studio.
Notepad2 is also relatively small (at ~500K I'll admit it is a whopping 10X's as big as notepad) but it adds features that always annoyed me in the past.
- A toolbar with a few buttons (just enough, not too many)
- Line numbers! No more GoTo
- Find includes Regular Expression support
- A transparency mode that allows you to set notepad on top of another document without having to switch windows!
- Text zoom, to easily increase font size - saving me an eye appt for at least one more year :)
- Undo memory
There are more features and I could babble on, but try it yourself!
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html