[nfbcs] Follow-up, Text Editors

[Steve Jacobson]

John,

Sorry to hear of your bad experience with UltraEdit, I've never had it crash in the five years or so I've used it with Window-Eyes.  I've used Textpad, though, and I 
agree that it's a good editor.  I've heard of other JFW users having trouble with UltraEdit, and I had some trouble with TextPad and Window-Eyes in earlier versions.  
That sort of thing is frustrating.  Thanks for the info on SFTPDRIVE.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:42:33 -0500, John G. Heim wrote:

>I've been using TextPad for many years. I registered it probably 12 or 15 
>years ago and even though I've updated TextPad many times, my license key 
>just keeps working.

>Positives for TextPad:
>1. Easy
>2. Save as unix, PC, or Mac file format
>3. Stable

>Drawbacks:
>1. Config screens have accessibility problems
>2. No built in sftp
>3. Doesn't work with nvda

>I tried to switch to another text editor a couple of years ago because 
>TextPad doesn't have sftp. I actually registered ultraEdit but I had to 
>abandon it because it kept crashing when I edited a php script remotely. I 
>also tried edsharp but I didn't like the hotkeys. I think a Windows text 
>editor should use the same keys as notepad. You shouldn't have to learn how 
>to use a text editor. You might have to learn to use some of the advanced 
>features but you should be able to edit a file 10 seconds after you run the 
>text editor for the first time, IMO.

>Then I discovered a product called sftpdrive. It allows you to map a windows 
>network drive to any computer running an ssh server. So when I need to edit 
>a config file on a linux machine, I map a share to it and open the file with 
>TextPad. Very efficient, very nice.

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm at pcdesk.net>
>To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:08 PM
>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Follow-up, Text Editors


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>> Joe,
>> Have you tried Text Pad? I don't know if it has precisely the html
>> features you're looking for, but it's got a quick start up time and has
>> tons of features designed specifically for people who program. I
>> frequently use it for simple html documents, plane text files, and
>> programming in various languages. It can even act as a simple IDE for
>> some programming languages. There are some things you'll want to set to
>> make it more accessible, but I can help with that. I could probably even
>> send you a .reg file that would do it for you. Anyway, if you want to
>> check it out, try:
>>
>> http://www.textpad.com
>>
>> The program is shareware, but has no time-out or other limitations other
>> than telling you once in a great while that it's not registered with a
>> message box.
>> Joe
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