Notepad2 is very nice looking at, but when I open a file more than 30Kb, it lags terribly. It takes ages to load the file, and scrolling is very slow.

The strange thing is that it doesn't happend when I open an htm file with it.
But for editing code specific software such as Notepad++ are better.
Notepad should for txt files basicaly.

Now, I would like to know how to revert to normal Notepad without uninstalling the package...even if I havev to use wordpad for large files.

It would be great to have something like the old Notepad but without the file size limitation.
All the Notpad replacement I have seen so far offer too many features. Not easy for handy notes, copy-paste, temporary saving text, quick reading, etc

That doesn't happen to me.... Try EditPad Lite -- very recommended also..... anything but original Notepad pls also getting mentioned often:

Edxor

& Notepad+

MDGx Freeware Notepad Replacements List Mentions PFE......& lists many others.....

NotepadEx
TED Notepad
MetaPad
Win32Pad

I'm actually considering replacing Notepad2 [quite primitive] in 98SE2ME with the more sofisticated PFE [my favorite ]. See details here:
http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#TXT

Thanks!
i choosed Metapad
Works good. Only 95Kb extracted!




But why did you include Notepad2, it was realy not the editor of choice...

PFE is very good too.

Except there isn't one thing that is very important to me whatever the app: a resizable open dialog window.

And PFE is already too advanced, it's like a script/code editor. My conception is that Notepad should be a minimal app just to see text quickely and type some infos inside.
PFE could play this role, if it was set by default to look like notepad (no statu bar, no tool bar etc).

The best would to ask the user what kind of Notepad they want during the installation process.

Choices, choices, choices.......................

You can please some of the people all of the time,
you can please all of the people some of the time,
but you can't please ALL of the people ALL of the time.

So my dear departed Mum would say

Hi,

is there any free win98se replacment notepad or wordpad that support OCR and MS word format ?

Try Abiword: http://www.abisource.com/

Thanks gape, i will try it out.

update: I have installed Abiword and i think i will keep it. Also removed wordpad from my OS

Guys, epsecialy Gape,

We are talking about Notepad replacement, not MS-Office Word replacement.
personaly I don't want to have 5 rows of toolbars+a system bar, everytime I want to view a password saved in a txt file... (see above what I mean by notepad)

Note that AbiWord looks great and would make a great replacement for Wordpad.. I will give it a try.

Here you go Freddie: 46K only.... yes, there's 64K limit, but it's tiny in comparison........ http://freewarehome.com/software/newpad.html

Smaller than Metapad & with no size limit, don't think this kind of animal exists...


btw fetch your pw with this one, just hover your cursor over the file and see the first part of its stored text

Nobody has smaller?

Horsecharles,
It's good, but it realy looks too much like Notepad, except the windows tile option.

This link didn't make it in the last post, Fred: http://www.contextmagic.com/ftp/InfoTagFreeSetup.exe

I didn't see Notetab mentioned...it's always been very nice for me....(I like PSPad but it's too heavy for just text editing...).

Of course go for the free version.....(I am the FreewareKing!!!)

Notetab



fyi, I have an amatuer freeware site if anyone is interested....I am lazy and it hasn't been updated in a while, but there are some nice links there...

In case anyone cares!! FreewareKing

it's strange cuzz notepad2 doesen't lag on me yet i prefer it over regular notepad
maybe it's your setup that lags it or something.

Rectification for metapad
I was wrong:
In fact you can select the font that you wish. Even better you can and easily switch between two custom fonts.


horsecharles
????


jasinwaWe didn't pretend to list all the notepad replacements here.
Thanks for the link, More choice is always good.


soldier1st

What set-up? It's supposed to open text in a heartbeat, I had to wait up to 10 seconds in some cases (files about 120 kb), less for small files.
Then the scrolling has some refresh problem.
No such problem with metapad.
Did you try opening large files?

Also I don't like the random coloring. (I know its not random, but for me it looked so).

Did you try to open an 8 MB text file in Metapad? Did u notice how long it takes?
I prefer PFE because [this is only 1 out of 50 reasons] loads any number of files of any size [limited by your installed RAM, of course] *fast*.
Also: try to open a binary file [metapad.exe for example] in Metapad, see what happens. Then try that again with PFE.
About dialog box resizing:
there are free tools that do that [by hexing COMMDLG.DLL = which you can also do in ResourceHacker, ExeScope or XVI32 = http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#HEX ], so all Windows 9x/ME dialog boxes are taller/wider/etc.
More info:
http://www.virtualplastic.net/html/ui_dlgs.html
But if u don't like PFE, you can also get another Notepad replacement [all freeware]:
http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#TXT

BTW: I have replaced Notepad2 in 98SE2ME with PFE [install only option 5] [2.4 MB]:
http://ftp.mdgx.com/4
Or if u want PFE by itself [608 KB]:
http://www.funet.fi/pub/simtelnet/win95/editor/pfe101i.zip

Enjoy.