Code Editor Review – TotalEdit
TotalEdit
Download from… http://www.codertools.com
Download size… 5.65MB
Installation size… 12.93MB
It isn’t often I try out a new code editor and get excited. But TotalEdit is doing precisely that.
Let’s see what it’s got…
- Resizable word wrap
- Line numbering
- Ability to easily add multiple browser launch
- Correctly syntax checks PHP embedded within HTML code
- Work on a USB stick
- It’s quick to launch
- Remembers previously opened files
What isn’t there? Well, there isn’t much else, including plugins. My current editor, Notepad++, has those and I don’t use them. It’s also rather bloated compared to others. But, then again, I’m putting it on an external USB drive where space isn’t an issue.
But, there is ONE issue. It isn’t much but that’s all it takes for a product to go from being the best one to being “nearly there”. Whenever I close the program and restart it the explorer toolbar resets back to the root directory structure. It’s remembered the files I was editing, but not the matching folder structure (and as I have my web development files neatly on a USB drive under lots of sub-folders, this is laborious).
Shame, otherwise I may have been switching editors.
I’m going to contact the authors and see if there’s a solution (I can’t find anything in the preferences)… I’ll wait until I get a reply (or not) before I give this software a final score. My hope is that there is a solution.
27/02/2008 Update
I received a rather speedy reply yesterday from the authors of the software. There is no facility to do what I was after, but they were already looking at modifying the under-used project facilities to do something similar – as in, link the project to a specific folder. The current version was to include this but it didn’t make it in. They’ll hopefully now include it in a later update.
So, I’ll keep an eye out and re-check the program once the update occurs. In the meantime… the software gets 4 (out of 5) stars. So nearly there, but I’m sticking with NotePad++ in the meantime.
Artiss.co.uk is checked by
At the minute I use dreamweaver which is of course fantastically functional with everything you could possibly need. The downside is that it does take an eternity to load up.
I’ve also got notepad++ but as far as I was aware it doesn’t do syntax checking and code highlighting. I only use it for searching for text in files.
This wee program might be exactly what I was looking for. I like the idea that you can install on a memory stick too. I can think of a bunch of places that’d be handy for.