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By: M.Gh>shirazi

M.Gh>shirazi — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:54:46 +0000

Thank you for a very useful note pad. The features far outshine the regular note pad that you get with Windows OS. Things just get better and better

By: BillW50

BillW50 — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:19:40 +0000

Ever read the big bold text below?

By: BillW50

BillW50 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:56:40 +0000

Yaron (#120) wrote: “Maybe I don’t just want text editors for free, but want a text editor with specific capabilities I’m looking for? I can search for text editors, and then go over them all, one by one, by myself, to determine what does what. Or I can find someplace where people actually compare programs and features, and save a lot of time. Why not learn from other people’s experience?”

Hahahaha…. that is what Google is for. ;)

Yaron (#120) wrote: “Not if the other software is one that complement, or compete with, the GOTD program. That makes it on-topic.”

That is why GAOTD created the following forum for. lol

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/forum/8

Yaron (#120) wrote: “We’re still far from a thousand different commenters here, so I wouldn’t get too worried. And you know what? If so many people will write about their favourite text editors, and discuss their comparative strengths and weaknesses, then this would be a wonderful comment section.”

That is why the following link above was created. lol

BillW50 wrote: “Why does someone has to be told which software has it?”

Yaron (#120) wrote: “I don’t even understand the question. Are you saying that if someone looks for a text editor that can do A, B, and C, nobody should say anywhere which program has these features? If this someone gets here, nobody should tell them that either GridinSoft has all three, or maybe it just has A and B, but there’s a different program that does C? Apparently I made you laugh a lot, but… are you serious?”

Want to know about text editors with LaTeX ability for example, Google “Text Editors+LaTeX”. That was hard wasn’t it? lol

BillW50 wrote: “Gosh! Want me to hold your hand for you while you install your software? That has to be the height of laziness if you ask me.”

Yaron (#120) wrote: “Not that I’m asking you, it’s just a matter of having way too many user accounts on too many places already, and so a lack of will to increase them if it’s avoidable. Since I expect most of what I’ll have to say here on GOTD will be in the comments, and not the forum, I don’t want to handle yet another account. Not for the sake of a single discussion with you.”

Oh I see! You are either a rebel without a cause? Do I have this correct? Or are you just mentally challenged? If so then :(

By: BillW50

BillW50 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:36:24 +0000

TK (#119) wrote:

A true windows expert knows deeper than superfical Win9x corrupted icon-cache bug, that does not generally cause all explorer used icons to instantly vanish. Just checked on gridinsoft forums and this vanishing icons problem is a known bug since Aug 2006 with no current solution, see thread at:

http://gridinsoft.org/index.php?t=msg&th=43&start=0

Please lurk and research more and post less hastily :-)

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Geez I never thought to look in a forum with only about 15 registered users. Sorry I was only trying to help. Does it only happen on Windows 98FE?

By: Yaron

Yaron — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:38:39 +0000

@BillW50 – “First of all, Google Text Editors for free. What is so hard?”

Maybe I don’t just want text editors for free, but want a text editor with specific capabilities I’m looking for? I can search for text editors, and then go over them all, one by one, by myself, to determine what does what. Or I can find someplace where people actually compare programs and features, and save a lot of time. Why not learn from other people’s experience?

“Secordly this comment section is for the gaveawayoftheday program. Thus talking about other software here is off topic.”

Not if the other software is one that complement, or compete with, the GOTD program. That makes it on-topic.

“If over a thousand people start writing here about their favorite free software, this comment section would become useless and unreadable.”

We’re still far from a thousand different commenters here, so I wouldn’t get too worried. And you know what? If so many people will write about their favourite text editors, and discuss their comparative strengths and weaknesses, then this would be a wonderful comment section.

“Why does someone has to be told which software has it?”

I don’t even understand the question. Are you saying that if someone looks for a text editor that can do A, B, and C, nobody should say anywhere which program has these features? If this someone gets here, nobody should tell them that either GridinSoft has all three, or maybe it just has A and B, but there’s a different program that does C? Apparently I made you laugh a lot, but… are you serious?

“Gosh! Want me to hold your hand for you while you install your software? That has to be the height of laziness if you ask me.”

Not that I’m asking you, it’s just a matter of having way too many user accounts on too many places already, and so a lack of will to increase them if it’s avoidable. Since I expect most of what I’ll have to say here on GOTD will be in the comments, and not the forum, I don’t want to handle yet another account. Not for the sake of a single discussion with you.

By: TK

TK — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:59:13 +0000

#89 BillW50: “Any expert and longtime user of W9x (including ME) knows about the corrupt icon bug!”

http://gridinsoft.org/index.php?t=msg&th=43&start=0

Please lurk and research more and post less hastily :-)

By: TK

TK — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:03:31 +0000

Re#117 a workaround under win9x is to bring up the Options (or any other) input box and then use task manager to exit the application, which will not respond since it’s waiting for user input… FORCE it to End Task and it will then exit cleanly without corrupting sytem memory tables.
NOTE1 the bug exhibits same features with or without ActiveDesktop enabled. The Desktop is not instantly refreshed with ActiveDesktop enabled but when it is using F5 the icons all vanish imediatly.
NOTE2 if one does try and use TweakUI (any version) to rebuild icons then the system is brought down in a series of page faults since by deduction the exit process changes the pointer to the in-memory cache of icons to such a place that when written to by the rebuild tool of TweakUI it breaks something delicate but critical.
Reboot/Restart windows is the only known solution if the icons have already been zapped by the gridinsoft-notepad. Logging off then on again simply re-starts the user session from scratch but with zero icons so the start menu text spacing collapses to accomodate the size of the icons it finds. (0×0 pixels)

By: TK

TK — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:14:16 +0000

#71,#88 I concour with your findings and add that in my case at least, in addition to the Desktop,QuickLaunch and StartMenu icons simply vanishing upon the program exit, sometimes the StartMenu Font size and entry spacing changes too, #89 this is NOT the old icon cache file becoming corrupt but a dynamic corruption of the system memory in some way. Blaming MS for every icon related application induced bug seems a little silly when the observed bug is different in apearance to the MS design flaw and is infinitly repeateable but only with one application on multiple instalations of same family of operating systems.

The SysTray notification icons remain visible and are unaffected.
Not recommended for win9x systems as something nasty is going on when it Exits.

By: BillW50

BillW50 — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:37:59 +0000

cdbourbon (#96)

“Elimination thing” indicated in post #73, BillW50 (NLOL)…

1) When typing in Word Wrap mode (F2), periodically upon reaching the right margin, if a space is typed and the first letter of the next word begins on the next line as a wrap, the space is removed and the two words are joined to form a single word on the next line. For example, when I just typed “when typing” and reached the right margin as described above, word wrap eliminated the space to form “whentyping” on the line below.

Oh thanks! I never noticed that cdbourbon. I am trying the Lite (free version) and see if it still happens. So far so good.

Spell checker for the free version is at:

http://notepad.gridinsoft.com/faq.php

It too checks your spelling as you type. How cool is that?

By: BillW50

BillW50 — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:30:20 +0000

Chris (#74): Is there a way to change the tab spacing? It seems stuck on 8

Yes!

Format
Editor Options
General (tab)
Lower right