What Text Editing tool do you mod with?

**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!

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 10-10-2005, 02:17

Textpad also. WinMerge for some editing, but not the basic stuff.

**Dol Guldur** · 02-03-2006, 18:55

I think there may have been a thread on tools of a more general nature but I cannot find it and need some advice.

I use Crimson Editor, ExamDiff/DiffDoc and Lupus Rename.

They're all excellent. But I need some tools/plugins that will:

1. display the modification date of a file in Windows Explorer that has been renamed and not necessarily had its contents edited (usually applies to graphic files).

2. Make folders to display the date of the last modified file within them

3. Allow me to copy filenames and their paths in text form from the Windows Explorer pane (useful for creating patch text file - I'm not going to type out all those file paths and names!)

Can anyone help? It would be much appreciated.

**=E.T=** · 02-03-2006, 20:32

ExamDiff & DiffDoc ! they are great tools!

**Monkwarrior** · 02-04-2006, 00:48

Originally Posted by Dol Guldur

3. Allow me to copy filenames and their paths in text form from the Windows Explorer pane (useful for creating patch text file - I'm not going to type out all those file paths and names!).

Try DirLister.
http://freeware.prv.pl/

The format of the text file is not suitable for packing the patchs, but you can convert them easily with Word (be careful with the blank spaces at the end of the lines).
I've tried it only once, but it seems to work.