Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:19:46 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Johan Venter <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: What's a good stand-alone editor?
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On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Johan Venter wrote:

> > UltraEdit is an excellent editor that I've been using for over a year
> > and I'd recommend it to anyone doing programming.  Syntax highlighting
> > (of course), very comprehensive search & replace, FTP file open &
> > save, and as a bonus it does hex editing of binary files as well!
> >
> > EditPlus seems pretty good too, but I haven't been using it that long.
> 
> Then my hard drive crashed, now I use EditPlus, which is also quite
> nice (albeit it hasn't got some of the more advanced UltraEdit features).

Which advanced features do you miss?

If that's FTP and hex editing of binary files, Emacs has them built in.

(The more editors I hear about, the more I'm convinced that every 
advanced editor tries to reinvent Emacs ;-)

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