Notepad

[Hemmer]

Dont you just love it...
The way it loads so fast - no confusing menus. Visit here for a fun take on notepad (http://notepad.org/)

[JayM]

I like the "Created by Notepad" logo idea. Who knows, maybe i'll use a logo :).

[Kevey]

Very cool, and true.

[David Harrison]

I particularly liks this one:
http://www.notepad.org/notepad-fulvio.gif

[JPnyc]

Although the smell of sarcasm was pungent on that site, I really do love notepad, and for all the reasons listed. It's perfectly named as well.

[David Harrison]

Me too, less clutter means you get more of the stuff that actually matters on the screen.

[Hemmer]

Definitely a case of less is more...

[JayM]

I used to do everything in notepad, but after finally getting a copy of Visual Studio, I have abandoned notepad. Only thing I use it for now is CSS, which is not that much.

[drhowarddrfine]

I've done just the opposite. Was given VS years ago and went back to notepad. Actually, I use Win32Pad and, sometimes, Crimson Editor.

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

Notepad is great, but it's for depressed people..no colors

[philaweb]

Quote: "Universal application for all versions of Windows".

And that is where Notepad fails. I prefer JEdit (http://slettes.dk/redirect_to/?url_name=http://www.jedit.org/). Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows. :)

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

Well, there again, like almost any program, text editors are a very personal choice

[The Little Guy]

Notepad is great, but it's for depressed people..no colors
not if you get notepad 2

http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

well, obviously notepad 2 is not notepad ;)

[theuedimaster]

Say it ain't so!

[Robert Wellock]

If you want to slow your productivity then yes use notepad but I'd agree most programs are just bloat.

[wamboid]

Maybe I'm just different, but I've found that my productivity is actually better with notepad. WYSIWYG stuff just causes too much re-coding. With stuff like html-kit, I tend to be faster just typing the tags rather than reaching for the mouse and clicking on the tag. Maybe it's from coding experience, but I just type faster with both hands on the keyboard all the time. Of course I hardly touch my keyboard when surfing. As far as the color coding available in some applications, I tend to type my code organized well enough not to need it.

[David Harrison]

There are a couple of features that I wouldn't mind adding to notepad, such as line numbering and something similar to what dreamweaver has in code-view where you can "close" elements and hide the code that is in them. If that's not described too well then I apologise, but I can't really think of another way to describe it that wouldn't take several pages.

Colour-coding doesn't really work for me, I find that it puts me off. I prefer to have maximum contrast between the code and the background, helps me to scan through the code quicker and find what I want.

[Hemmer]

...something similar to what dreamweaver has in code-view where you can "close" elements and hide the code that is in them...

Yeah I get you. I find that particuarly useful for hiding unessecary stuff. But I wouldn't add it to notepad. It works because its so simple - start messing with and all sorts of things can happen. Thats why its best those features are kept to dreamweaver type programs.

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

...something similar to what dreamweaver has in code-view where you can "close" elements and hide the code that is in them...

If you want that, color highlightning, good tabbing, a very light app, etc.. try SciTE