TextPad vs PAD

[Steve Hodgson]

Does anyone have any experience of using the text editor PAD (Hesky-Data Software) and can provide a summary of it's capabilities compared to TextPad.

Our company is currently 'rationalising' the range of software supported and one victim might be TextPad, with PAD designated heir apparent by the IT bean-counters.

I've had a quick play with it and it looks capable but my impression would be that it's not quite a TextPad. If anyone has anything to add after longer-term use I'd be grateful. I suspect that I won't have to make the transistion in the end but it would be useful to have technical background on the differences.

PAD provides all the usual stuff you'd expect in a medium range editor (tabbed windows, syntax highlighting etc) plus RTF capabilities and a graphics viewer (presumably for icons, splash screens etc). The help files are somewhat sketchy (e.g. nothing on the creation of syntax definition files) so I couldn't really get a feel of the capabilities provided from that.

Cheers,

Steve

[David]

I've never used PAD but you should take a look at UltraEdit http://www.ultraedit.com. Very robust and it still receives updates in a timely manner!