What Text Editing tool do you mod with?

**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.

**Dol Guldur** · 02-04-2006, 01:41

Thx. Monk - I will check that out.

**Dol Guldur** · 02-04-2006, 14:38

Excellent - unpack, add files to default ones, and repack of patch_1.pak for 1.5/1.6 works.

Thx to Monkwarrior for that tool - it saved a ton of time: oh, and Crimson Editor has an option to delete trailing spaces so no need to convert in Word.

**Monkwarrior** · 02-04-2006, 23:29

Originally Posted by Dol Guldur

Excellent - unpack, add files to default ones, and repack of patch_1.pak for 1.5/1.6 works.

Thx to Monkwarrior for that tool - it saved a ton of time: oh, and Crimson Editor has an option to delete trailing spaces so no need to convert in Word.

Glad to be of help.

**Cheexsta** · 02-08-2006, 06:29

I use TextPad as well. Works like a charm - its search (and find/replace) system isn't too hard to get the hang of, and it makes making lots of precise changes much easier than NotePad. The ability to search by line and column numbers is also quite nifty.