{"id":76,"date":"2007-06-21T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/2007\/06\/programmers-notepad-simply-powerful-text-editor\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T01:14:12","slug":"programmers-notepad-simply-powerful-text-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/2007\/06\/programmers-notepad-simply-powerful-text-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Programmer&#8217;s Notepad, simply powerful text editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnotepad.org\">Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad<\/a> is for people who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t prefer to code in either large IDE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s or just windows Notepad. Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad is handy tool and good replacement for Notepad users. Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad comes with lot of enriched features and is highly customizable.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnotepad.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/pnotepad-logo.jpg\" title=\"Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad\" alt=\"Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I have to agree that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m one among the people who extensively use Windows Notepad either to take notes or little debugging \/ code editing etc. Windows Notepad can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be much efficient choice when it comes to coding \/ debugging. Notepad does lack features that will increase the productivity of programmer \/ debugger.<\/p>\n<p>Consider a case where you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to fix an error in multi-nested loop. Notepad does fail here and it would consume few extra time than the time intended if we use good productivity tool. One among such tool is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnotepad.org\">Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad<\/a>. It would increase your productivity by reducing the time taken.<\/p>\n<p>PNotepad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Code Folding feature comes in handy here. Code Folding is a feature that allows user to selectively display and hide section of currently edited file. The section can be either a fragment of code or function etc. This feature is available in most powerful text editor and IDE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/p>\n<p>See the screen shot below with code folding done for function second_page(). Also have a look at Text Clips in notepad area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnotepad.org\/screenshots\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/pnotepad-screenshot.jpg\" title=\"Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad Screenshot\" alt=\"Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad Screenshot\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"390\" width=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad offers syntax highlighting for wide range of programming and markup language. Also it has Text-clips option to insert the predefined code-snippets for various languages. Programmer&#8217;s Notepad also has a simple project management interface to manage the files related to the projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Features &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Code_folding\">Code Folding<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Code \/ Syntax Highlighting<\/li>\n<li>Project Management \/ Grouping<\/li>\n<li>Regular expression search<\/li>\n<li>Code Snippets<\/li>\n<li>Tabbed multi-file support<\/li>\n<li>Bookmarking<\/li>\n<li>Export feature<\/li>\n<li>Addon Support<\/li>\n<li>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnotepad.org\/features\/\">lot more&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad is an open source project that is featured in SourceForce <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/pnotepad\/\">Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad<\/a> is a free to distribute under GPL license. Thanks to Simon Steele for Programmer&#8217;s Notepad<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a replacement in high-end IDE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s but it can be a good replacement for Windows Notepad.<\/p>\n<p>What is your choice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad is for people who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t prefer to code in either large IDE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s or just windows Notepad. Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad is handy tool and good replacement for Notepad users. Programmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Notepad comes with lot of enriched features and is highly customizable. I have to agree that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m one among the people who extensively use Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[143,62,59,141,182,212,211],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","tag-editor","tag-notepad","tag-productivity","tag-programmer","tag-text-editor","tag-tools","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}