Re: text editor

["Lance.Leighnor" <Lance.Leighnor@YELLOWCORP.COM>]

Some editors...

1. Edit Plus - www.editplus.com
2. UltraEdit - www.ultraedit.com
3. Vedit - www.vedit.com
4. kedit - www.kedit.com

Editors 1-3 are "windows" style editors and can be configured to display
line number/position pretty easily.

Kedit is a clone of the IBM mainframe editor Xedit, which will do line
numbers/column numbers very easily.

My thoughts on each:

- Edit Plus I use a lot. Its a good general purpose programmer's editor, but
it does not do somethings (such as x'00' changes) at all or very well.

- Ultra Edit is a little heavier duty than Edit Plus, I have not tested it
with some of the things that Edit Plus chokes on yet.

- Vedit's forte is speed on big files. This thing will edit 20M files
without a quibble, plus it does binary/hex changes very easily. It saved my
bacon when I was dealing with a 20M data file that had embedded x'00'
characters. None of the editors I had would touch a file that big or if they
would, would NOT change the x'00' out. This one did. If I purchase a
product, it may be this one. Documentation on this product is A+ too.

- kedit is a mainframe clone, so it deals with lines/columns very well. It
also has a command line so if you're more comfortable entering a change
command than clicking thru 3 dialogs, this editor works well. Highly
customizable too. Its primary drawback is the file has to be in memory. It
would have handled my x'00' situation, but the filesize was too big to load.
And as an old mainframer, I'm probably the most at home with this editor.

Hope this helps.

Lance Leighnor
Senior Development Analyst - Payroll
Yellow Technologies
mailto:Lance.Leighnor@YellowCorp.com
(913) 344-5364


-----Original Message-----
From: Hood Louise (app1lxh) [mailto:app1lxh@UPS.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:07 AM
To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
Subject: text editor


Hi everyone!

I was wondering if anyone knows of a "text editor" (similar to Wordpad and
Notepad), but the window shows line number and character position you are
positioned at in the info bar at the bottom.  This is really helpful for
examining input/output data files when you are concerned with character
position.

I had a program like this where I used to work but can't remember the name
of it.  Any suggestions?

Thanks