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NEW RELEASE OF NOTEPAD2 - UPDATED (AGAIN) WITH RUBY SUPPORT

April 20, 2007 Comment on this post [18] Posted in Programming | Tools
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I'm a big fan of Notepad2. I have used a ton of text editors, but I keep coming
back to Notepad2. Partially because it's one better than Notepad, but mostly
just because it feels very natural. Notepad++ is nice, but still, I'm drawn to
Notepad2.

After nearly three years of silence, Florian Balmer of Flo's Freeware has
updated Notepad2! You can get the latest version here directly from Flo, as well
as the C++ source.

There's some cool changes in this version, including the removal of settings
from the Registry. They're stored in a .ini file now, which makes Notepad2 more
appropriate as a Portable App.

Here's a few of the changes that I'm enjoying (full list of changes here):

 * "Insert HTML/XML Tag" helper tool (Alt+X)
 * Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
 * BSD License for Notepad2 and source code (see License.txt)
 * Multiline find and replace
 * Find and replace dialogs are now modeless
 * File change notification (optional)
 * "Duplicate Selection" command (Alt+D)

And dozens and dozens more small improvements. Let's all congratulate Flo on his
triumphant return!

Unfortunately, Ruby as a syntax highlighting scheme still isn't included in this
distribution, and while I want the new Notepad2, I can't give up the Ruby
support added before by Wesner. So, I took the source of the New Notepad2 used
Beyond Compare and Rubyified it, again. If you want to build it yourself, you
have to get the source for Scintilla first, then modify it to change some Lexer
linking stuff (see the Notepad2 readme.txt).

Download Notepad2 Version 2.0.15 with Ruby Highlighting added (+source diff)

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April 20, 2007 3:02
Hi Scott,

Any reason you prefer Notepad2 over SciTE, the Scintilla editor?

BTW, I noticed you're a big PowerShell fan. Are you using Vista yet? Because if
so, you may be interested in my PowerShell Sidebar gadget.

Cheers,

Andrew.
Andrew Peters
April 20, 2007 3:06
Thanks for the tip. Will definitely check Notepad2 out. Thanks for adding the
ruby support. However, it will probably have a hard time beating the new kid on
the block: E-texteditor. It's just so darn intuitive to use.

/Jesper
Jesper Rønn-Jensen
April 20, 2007 3:26

Jesper - I don't know, kind of hard to beat one of the biggest aspects of
Notepad2: it's free and open-source.


Jason Bunting
April 20, 2007 6:59
Thanks for the post. I have published an installer with the registry setting to
add shell integration. You can get to it here...

http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2007/04/19/notepad2-update-released/

Perhaps I should create another installer for the Ruby-enabled version as well.

Brennan Stehling
April 20, 2007 11:27
Hi Scott

I've got to second Jesper's comment above. I've worked my way through all of the
usual suspects all the while lusting after TextMate on my friends' macs. And
then along came e-texteditor. It is currently in a beta phase but has full
TextMate bundle support so already has a whole community and history
pre-installed.

As for free and open source Jason, you're right it is not. If that is important
then as you say, Notepad 2 is for you. If you can stretch to the princely sum of
$30 though you'll realise that the text-editor bar has definitely been raised on
Windows.

I've linked to some stuff around e and console as a rails environment...

Graham
Graham Pengelly
April 20, 2007 11:47
Hi, Scott.
I don`t understand where I make a mistake. I download your edited Notepad2 with
Ruby syntax highlightning, run it, open my ruby sources and don`t see the
highlight feature. Have you any suggestions?
Dmitry.
Dmitry
April 20, 2007 12:38
Dmitry, sorry, I put and older bad build up, it's fixed now.
Scott Hanselman
April 20, 2007 12:50
It works, thanks a lot.
Dmitry.
Dmitry
April 20, 2007 17:00
So that's why you asked that C++ question during the chat yesterday... Nice
addition to Notepad2!
Javier Lozano
April 20, 2007 18:15
The Notepad2 src download appears to be missing the scintilla.h header file. Was
it part of the src package you downloaded Scott?
Coleman
April 20, 2007 21:33
Since I learned about Notepad2 from your blog, I've been using it along with
Notepad++. Another amazing text editor is jEdit. Yeah, it's a Java application,
but give it a try. They have done a quite an amazing job.

Oh BTW, they just released Ubuntu 7.04. I installed it and I'm very impressed. I
got a laptop that has Vista and Ubuntu 7 now!
vbNullString
April 20, 2007 21:35
Coleman - If you want to rebuild this, you'll need to do a few things.

One, download Scintilla (I didn't redist it).
Two, change some headers (a lexer define) per Flo's readme.
Three, add the Ruby lexer to the project
Scott Hanselman
April 20, 2007 22:15
Thanks for the update, Scott. Another commenter mentioned Notepad++, which I
currently use, too. Perhaps you've used both Notepad2 and Notepad++. If so, I'd
be interested in why you prefer Notepad2. Cheers.
Caesar Whiddick
April 21, 2007 0:04
Scott,

Thanks. I didn't RTFM, clearly. Once I downloaded Scintilla, the main Notepad2
app did compile, but failed to link. When I get some time, I'll look into it
further. I'm interested in expanding the HTML tag insertion.
Coleman
April 21, 2007 0:25
Coleman - You need to open up Keywords.cxx and change the #define for LINK_LEXER
to this:

#define LINK_LEXER(lexer) void(0)
Scott Hanselman
April 21, 2007 16:08
The new version is not so impressive after nearly three years of silence.
I stick with Notepad++ which is more featured swiss-knife to edit my ruby files.
Sunny
May 21, 2007 0:08
There are some pretty bad bugs in Notepad2 version 2.0.15. You should download
the latest - 2.0.16 - and add your changes for Ruby to that. There is a reason
flo updated it so quickly :)
James
May 25, 2007 14:53
hi all,

well is anybody here able to compile ruby files using any of the editors
mentioned above ???

I haven't succeeded and if u drop me a line

~rd
rishav

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