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UltraEdit Text Editor
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Re: UltraEdit Text Editor
#42Nice to know it is still around.
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#43All these "simple" text editors like to show how easy it is to use "multiple cursors" to edit several spots at once but... Even though sometimes it's needed it's really usually a terribly bad way to "refactor". Real refactoring is done across multiple files / config files and that's one area where a real IDE excels. And this comes from an Emacs fan (and I do sometimes use "multiple cursors" in Emacs). I really don't…
I use a powerful IDE (Intellij) in a static language (Scala). And I do use the refactoring support all the time. But I use the multiple cursors feature just as often. Sometimes you want to change more than just a variable name. Sometimes you want to replace just a part of a variable name that's identical over several different variable names. Etc etc.
Re: UltraEdit Text Editor
#44Once free open source vscode appears, all the paid editor is not attractive any more.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has non subscription options of you find the tiny, tiny link for "more purchase options".
$120 bucks for a perpetual license for the current release +1.
Seems pretty reasonable to me if it's as useful to people as it appears to be judging by the comments here.
Personally I'm willing to even pay a slight premium for non-subscription options too.
I find it's important to know what you're buying though; particularly if the thing it's targeting is changing rapidly, like an IDE for a modern language, or something else they know will be made obsolete in a short time.
A book on Android 1.5, or Kubernetes Pod Security Policies doesn't (didn't) have much of a future.
Re: UltraEdit Text Editor
#47All these "simple" text editors like to show how easy it is to use "multiple cursors" to edit several spots at once but... Even though sometimes it's needed it's really usually a terribly bad way to "refactor". Real refactoring is done across multiple files / config files and that's one area where a real IDE excels. And this comes from an Emacs fan (and I do sometimes use "multiple cursors" in Emacs). I really don't…
"real refactoring" isn't generally available to those of us using dynamic languages like Python (or at least I've never seen it done well) so multiple cursors is about the best we can get unfortunately.
What now? I use PyCharm to refactor all the time, extract vars, methods, change signature, move to a different file , rename ...
Intellij and their products are amazing.
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#49Another semi unknown gem I used back in the day, first under OS/2 then Windows, was MED.
http://www.med-editor.com/indexus.html
Also don't forget about Geany, which is FOSS, multiplatform and quite extensible. https://www.geany.org/
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#50this editor is exceptional at loading files which are gigabytes in size. nothing else I've ever used comes close.
I've become quite fond of vis[0] and it amazes me how quick it is with gigantic files. It's developed/mantained by a few people so its development is not as quick as one would want, though.