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June 06, 2005

Text-editor wars

Okay, Denizens, so this may be minutiae to you guyz, but what the hell - it's my blog, right? (grin)

Some background:  From about the second month of the blog's existence forward, I've been using the Semware Editor v4.2 as my offline post composer (it's available at www.semware.com if anyone's interested).  It's customizable to a fault, and I'd tweaked it to the point where I could format what I wrote to stand on its head if I wanted.

Problem is, the registered version of this particular app costs a whopping $100 - and, as most of you know, I'm not independently wealthy. (grin)  And the "test-drive" version is crippleware - after 60 days, poof - so, I'd have to uninstall/reinstall (all together now) ALL...OVER...AGAIN.  I thought I'd fixed that little problem a couple months ago with Windoze's backup utility, but it blew up in my face this weekend.

Now, uninstallation/reinstallation isn't all that much of a problem - except I always have to manually re-do the color scheme each time I reinstall.  Gets old after awhile.

Hence, this post is being composed with UltraEdit 32 - a nifty, even-more-customizable jobber from the nice folks at IDM.  Looks like it's more powerful - and  it's cheaper, to boot.

I could get used to this...

Posted by Lord Spatula I, King & Tyrant at June 6, 2005 08:19 PM

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Posted by: David Hartung at June 7, 2005 07:13 PM

Posted by: Lord Spatula I, King & Tyrant at June 7, 2005 10:47 PM