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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Dec 19, 2006 at 04:38 PM
I know that a number of you have been posting about plain text, and its advantages.
My understanding is that Zoot is plain text—is that correct?
Also, in terms of plain text editors, such as NoteTab, is there one that allows you to have more than one window open at a time, so you can work back and forth among windows without having to use tabs?
When I write, I like to have several windows open at a time. That’s what I like about Zoot, IH, QuickNotes, and Ariadne.
If any of the aforementioned programs that I use are plain text, do I need a separate text editor?
Is there some place on the web that gives a very simple intro to plain text?
Thanks.
Daly
Posted by Wes Perdue
Dec 19, 2006 at 04:55 PM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Also, in terms of plain
>text editors, such as NoteTab, is there one that allows you to have more than one window
>open at a time, so you can work back and forth among windows without having to use
>tabs?
EditPad Pro, my favorite text editor for Windows, has tabbed windows and allows multiple windows as well (Ctrl+Shift+N).
MetaPad, which is free and is very light-weight, also allows more than one instance of itself, though it does not support tabs.
It can be found at: http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Regards,
Wes
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Dec 19, 2006 at 04:59 PM
Wes, thanks. Can it have two or more windows open at the same time, or are you always having to tab back and forth?
Daly
Wes Perdue wrote:
>Daly de Gagne wrote:
>
>>Also, in terms of plain
>>text editors, such as NoteTab, is
>there one that allows you to have more than one window
>>open at a time, so you can work
>back and forth among windows without having to use
>>tabs?
>
>EditPad Pro, my favorite
>text editor for Windows, has tabbed windows and allows multiple windows as well
>(Ctrl+Shift+N).
>
>http://www.editpadpro.com/
>
>MetaPad, which is free and is
>very light-weight, also allows more than one instance of itself, though it does not
>support tabs.
>
>It can be found at:
>http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
>
>Regards,
>Wes
Posted by Chris Murtland
Dec 19, 2006 at 05:01 PM
Daly, Zoot is plain text in the sense that there is no formatting of text available. However, Zoot does not store its data files in plain text. I seem to remember that it’s fairly easy to export out to plain text from Zoot - I think it is done by “printing” to a file.
Chris
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>My understanding is that Zoot is plain text—is that correct?
Posted by Wes Perdue
Dec 20, 2006 at 03:42 AM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Wes, thanks. Can it have two or more windows open at the same time, or are you always
>having to tab back and forth?
>
>Daly
>
Daly,
I regularly have two EditPad windows open, one on each of two monitors. You can choose to have tabs if you like, but they’re not essential.
Regards,
Wes