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Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by shrikant »

rschmitty wrote: post #6

No idea why he would use Notepad2, ST3 loads up just as fast and provides way more features for text editing. Plus it is good with markdown syntax highlighting thus eliminating the need for MarkdownPad Also Github for windows or just Git bash covers the need for Gow Jabbr is ok, but I havent been able to give up mIRC Also he left off a good tabbed ssh/putty Great list, learned lots of new things thanks!

What?? I don't have access to a Windows install right now, but the last time I used ST3 on Windows, it took a heck of a lot longer (~2-3 seconds) to start up than Notepad2.

For micro-edit sessions, Notepad2 is unbeatable.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by patrickk »

Havoc wrote: post #5
patrickk wrote: post #2

A word of warning about TerraCopy- it can cause annoying errors when copying. I transferred many gigs of data from one computer to another over a LAN, some files transferred fine, others looked like they copied ok, but were actually 0kb in size on closer look. I'm not sure if it was a bug in that particular version or with the setup being used, but once I uninstalled TerraCopy the errors ceased.

TC occasionally bombs out if you queue too much stuff - i.e. it just closes ... and thus looks like its done when really its not. Maybe thats why you got 0kb files. Win7 + copying is decent enough for most non-lan purposes though. Speaking on copying failing - I stopped using TotalCommander for that reason. It just says disk full (not true) out of the blue. Messaged the author & got some bullshit response.

You would think that queuing lots of files would be where TerraCopy really shines- faster copying combined with a nice view of the copy queue, with percentages and so on.

I was disappointed to uninstall it because it worked well for normal copying on the same pc and the UI is very informative, but the bog-standard windows copying functionality can handle as much stuff as you can throw at it which is the whole point of a copy tool in the first place.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by voltagex_ »

PavlovsCat wrote: post #10

my 2 cents: - TreeSize ( and/or SequoiaView ) -- see where the big files/directories are on your harddrives - Piriform CrapCleaner -- deletes unwanted/unneeded files after booting; configure all of it, then add folders and log files manually (find good candidates with Treesize ;) I like all Piriform tools, they're small, quick and slick. I wish they made more things. - any SysInternals stuff you have a use for (Autor…

I'd swap out Treesize for Windirstat (Free-er) and FreeFileSync for PathSync (which I really need to fork one day)

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by to3m »

I don't know why people have such a blind spot in this regard, but Visual Studio's non-support for word-wrapping comments is obviously shameful. It's utterly ridiculous that you have to press Return while writing comments, and then more ridiculous yet that you have to go back and re-wrap them by hand when they change! - and the end result of course is that people usually don't bother, with the wrapping becoming steadily more ragged over time. Which looks shit.

So, I'll recommend this addin, that fixes it pretty nicely:

http://kynosarges.org/CommentReflower.html

Though, you know... I've recommended this to numerous people over the years. And all of them have gone and ignored me. So perhaps I'm just unusual, and people like the raggedy look. Still, Comment Reflower gets my vote.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by wslh »

I suggested the author to review my company product SpyStudio that has a free version and is being used by Microsoft MVPs and VMware to troubleshoot Windows issues.

If you need a trustworthy source, here is a video from Peter Björk ( http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/author/peter_bjork ) showing how to troubleshoot a ThinApp package: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sLxeoB7Bho

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by jhasse »

shrikant wrote: post #11
rschmitty wrote: post #6

No idea why he would use Notepad2, ST3 loads up just as fast and provides way more features for text editing. Plus it is good with markdown syntax highlighting thus eliminating the need for MarkdownPad Also Github for windows or just Git bash covers the need for Gow Jabbr is ok, but I havent been able to give up mIRC Also he left off a good tabbed ssh/putty Great list, learned lots of new things thanks!

What?? I don't have access to a Windows install right now, but the last time I used ST3 on Windows, it took a heck of a lot longer (~2-3 seconds) to start up than Notepad2. For micro-edit sessions, Notepad2 is unbeatable.

Just tested: less than half a second (it basically came up instantly). I have a SSD though.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by jhasse »

rschmitty wrote: post #6

No idea why he would use Notepad2, ST3 loads up just as fast and provides way more features for text editing. Plus it is good with markdown syntax highlighting thus eliminating the need for MarkdownPad Also Github for windows or just Git bash covers the need for Gow Jabbr is ok, but I havent been able to give up mIRC Also he left off a good tabbed ssh/putty Great list, learned lots of new things thanks!

Instead of Git bash try ConEmu with msys. It has resize support and several other features ;)

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by JackMorgan »

nhebb wrote: post #8

> "NimbleText - Regular Expressions are hard and I'm not very smart. NimbleText lets me do crazy stuff with large amounts of text with it hurting so much [sic]." In case it's unclear from the description, NimbleText is a simple code generator. It's saved me a ton of time and keystrokes. Well worth the $20.

> "NimbleText - Regular Expressions are hard and I'm not very smart. NimbleText lets me do crazy stuff with large amounts of text with it hurting so much [sic]."

I couldn't even read this part without laughing, all I hear is: "I'm too lazy to spend a few hours learning the free, extremely powerful tools available to me, so I'll use this weaker substitute instead. And it's only 20 bucks!"

I overcame my eye rolling, and checked out the tool. It looks fine, but it seems like just a GUI over regex, right? Am I missing anything?

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