What Text Editing tool do you mod with?

**Stuie** · 10-09-2005, 12:40

Metapad.

The search and find/replace features are much better than Notepad and it has a line counter - handy for quickly finding stuff from debug messages.

**Dol Guldur** · 10-09-2005, 14:12

CrimsonEditor

Small size, line numbers, tabs for multiple documents (useful for the associated files such that need simultaneous editing in RTW modding), quick navigation to saving/loading etc., wordwrap (of course), retains format, global replace can be selective...it's free.

It would be interesting to see the preferred tool of top modders. ;)

**Myrddraal** · 10-09-2005, 14:47

A traditionalist at heart, I use Notepad. But u guys seem to have some good programs there, I'll have to try them out.

**professorspatula** · 10-09-2005, 15:44

I use the aforementioned Crimson Editor. It's great. I only wish you could rearrange the order of the tabs so you could always have certain files listed first if you happen to close one down and reopen it later.

Since BI, I've stuck with Notepad though. Does the job nice enough providing you don't want too many files open at once.

Oh, and another tool... CSDiff. A great little free tool that lets you compare two text files for changes. Good if you're not sure what changes you made to the original CA files, or someone else's. I found it good for converting some of my pre BI mod files to the newer BI format, so I know what's different and how I need to update things. Or that's the theory anyway.

**Suraknar** · 10-09-2005, 16:26

Notepad it is, as Myrddraal said, traditions...

But yes open minded too...

**Simetrical** · 10-09-2005, 23:25

My main problem with Notepad (at least my version, 5.1) is that it bogs down horribly for really big files. And it doesn't allow much undoing, only one undo.

**afrit** · 10-10-2005, 00:49

Simetrical,
thanks for the link on TextPad. I downloaded the demo and was impressed by the Block selection tool.

I've been toying with perl (www.perl.com). I got asked by my boss at work to learn perl

to maintain some legacy code we use. Turns out total war text files are perfect to practice on!