I think Intype is better and easier.
http://intype.info/home/index.php
all the best
Nándor

I missed out; please offer this again soon. I wish you would not offer good programs on the weekends since I have no time to look then. Other than that I am happy to see high quality programs like this. Thanks.

I had used the 4.5 version but found that Notepad plus is the best as its freeware also..

Apt Edit supports Unicode and this is a good feature compared to many freeware text editors.

There was a 4.5 version download from giveawayoftheday.com few months back. I dont know whether this 4.6 version was a necessary within short duration?

The best alternate text editor is the NotePad++ as it is a freeware and open source.

Last two GAOTD versions of AptEdit was too buggly - they craches frequently (I don't test this version yet, hope, it's better). The feature, I interested in this editor was HEX template. But bugs disallow to use the editor. After I found 010 Editor - it's HEX template functions and scripting are much more powerful, than in AprEdit. But it's buggly too. And shareware...

Who knows any alternatives?

@41
Yes, Notepad++ can edit both hex and binary.

Its free, you can check it out.
nd while I really like AptEdit, it there is a place for N++ as well on the system

How does this compare to TECO? Is there anything out there like TECO?

Just this: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/teco/

Try msuteco or pcteco!

G

By default it installed into a new folder, thus leaving me with two versions of aptEdit on my computer (I had 3.4.7 from an earlier giveaway)
Would it be safe to uninstal the old version or will that sink the new one as well?

Had a quick around with this after installing and not something I can find a use for at all.
No doubt later will bring something better.

To be honest, There's not many programs that everybody can use but I installed and tried to find a use for this but simply could'nt.
Uninstall went well though and left no traces in registry :-)

I just installed this program.... I have Home Premium Vista,
with a brand-spanking new, best of the the loaded system that
my son & hubby have been drooling over (they have their own computers, although theirs are a couple of years older).

I immediately received an error message when I tried to "launch" this
program - as happens to me FREQUENTLY with your so-called "free" software! Getting rather frustrated, actually! So I've been rather
choosy about which progs I bother to try and download from your site.

I'm NOT a newbie - been computing and surfing for quite a number of
years.

I have deleted this downloaded program from my system, and am going
to utilize one of the other free titles that have been suggested by
others.

FINALLY , finally i can write [ and { in my programs with this editor using Alt+Gr.
This is by far the worst thing that was missing...

Nice, but developers have no concept of HTML 4.01 Standards! Even a new HTML page has a VERY INCORRECT document type inserted. Better than most though as all the tags are in lowercase. Other utilities in editor seem to be ok.

Ron

UPDATE to #42:

I copied all files from the default location to my flash drive. I launched the application from the flash drive on a computer that I did not install the application on, and it worked.

I just installed this version over the GOTD v.5 edition. When it launched, it was already registered. I didn't expect that and am wondering if there might be confusing stuff hanging around in the registry from the wrong version. I'm going to nuke my install and do a clean reinstall, and remember what Samuel L. Jackson said about assumptions. ;-) Just wondering if this is a feature or a bug.

@# 18 Arnie
@# 33 who said that
@# 36 John
@# 44 Charles K

The problem I had was that it would not allow me to copy and paste the info into the box to register the program but it did work after manually typing all the info in. And yes it does ask to restart but it didn’t hang for me. It registered ok but had to check under the “help” tab and then click the “about” tab to make sure and all was ok. It also maybe case sensitive so be sure to use capitols where needed. Only the “G” in the word Giveawayoftheday is capitalized and all the letters in the key codes are capitalized too.


@# 25 Joe

I didn’t set this program as the default viewer but I did a drag and drop of a TXT file and it was loaded fast (instantly) Of course if you only using 128 mb of ram it might be about a second and a half lol.

@# 35 ww2vet56
@# 44 Charles K

During the installing of this program a “Select additional task” box appears and asked if you wanted to add an Icon on your desktop and in your taskbar (checked by default). Below that there were boxes to check off (unchecked by default) if you wanted these type of files to be associated with this program, you might have checked them thinking you wanted to have this program to work with these files. But what it was really asking was do you want this program to be the default program for these files. This is maybe the reason for your MS Office to get reconfigured like it did
A good of percentage of programs when uninstalling will leave files behind and also info errors in the registry. The word error in this case isn’t a bad word. The reason for the errors is because the registry no longer can find the program or files that were associated with it. It’s just letting you know to beware of it and do what ever action you think best to do. It does becomes bad when too many errors add up, causing a slow registry load up during Window startups and can cause program conflicts.
I once asked a programmer developer I know for the reason why some developers allow this and he answered me saying in some cases depending how the program was written that, if the registry is changed by installing too many programs that when unstalling a program a misinterpitation of commands key codes could happen and may cause conflicts among other programs and is safe best to allow the user to take the action manually or use a registry cleaner. Besides allowing a full version to run with a registry key code, some programmers and vendors hiddenly leave errors or info behind to make sure you can’t repeat downloading their trial versions.

I hope some of this info will help some here.
I’m trying this program and so far it’s working flawless for me and does what I expect an editor to do and with a few extras.

Finally a good software again ! :-))

After weeks of dvd converters and flash creators you finally have a good software here again.

Thank you very much Gaotd !!!

Ps: I hope the tool " Helpsmith " will return soon !

All I can say is sweet! Installed with no problems on my Vista home 6.0 and it has most of the features I need. I like having the hex editor and this version is pretty nice. Thumbs up on this DL.

I use EditPad Lite which is free & does everything I need . They (JGSOFT)Keep improving it too! Installer Gives option to install to Hard or portable drive. The reason windows crashes is because it throws a wobbly when presented with a piece of well written software thrust into it`s system! But a scan disk should sort things out

@# 45 Ariana B
Yesterday the big problem seemed to be the installing and registering of the program with people using Windows Vista. You didn't mention what Windows you use so it would be hard to determine what your problem could be caused by. There were a lot of people complaining about the same problem and even the GAOTD team gave an answer as to what to do. If you read all of the comments there were other getting similar errors that you were having and got answers.

To me it seems the way Vista is setup by default that you have to right click with the mouse on the activate.exe file then click on "Run as Administrator" and repeat the same thing for the setup.exe file. This was repeated through out the whole day. Some times just to run the program after doing all the above you might still need to use the Run As Administrator option
Not a Vista user but as someone who works on others' computers that do, I'm learning this has to be done when installing a lot of other programs of certain games that must add info into the registry file.

You also have to realize that after getting an error message that you need fully uninstall the program then clean out your cache, temp files, cookies and history files and fix those errors in your registry file. The best way to do this I find, is to use a fairly good cleaner like the free CCleaner program. After that restart your computer to allow your computer to reload the now clean registry file. It works every time for me when I come across a problem like this.
Some times to rely on just uninstalling then trying to run as administrator won't work because the info from the first time is still locked in the registry that running the fix error program in CCleaner needs to be used. As a rule of thumb I run CCleaner before I shut down my computer every day and use the fix errors feature part each time I uninstall a program.

Will try this out. It's great we're seeing new versions of software like this. I currently use PSPad:

http://www.pspad.com/en/

I've also used both Notepad++ and HTML-Kit in the past, but had a few annoying issues with both of them.

#32 and # 44
Same issue here. Same error reported from #32.
Crashes on Vista. Uninstalled and downloaded from the publishers web site for their 30 day trial. Still same issue.
CRASHES before it even starts.

Of course, every program is different.
What's of value is a review that might point out
some of the benefits this program may offer.
Certainly not for everyone but if you have a use for a text editor or do coding, work with html, or just plain text, may be of great benefit to you.
There are other text editors, for example, NoteTab Light which is nice, responsive, has great tab feature and a great code library -- But this can do or have features that NoteTab or other programs can't.

Here is just a list of some of the features to help determine if they might benefit:

EXCELLENT Sytax highlighting
compare file
built in FTP
line terminator
send mail
read only
number converter
line transpose
comment selection
work full screen
ruler
spell checker
dos shell
run command line
hex, binary, and disk hardware editing
convert to html
syntax highlighting from everything from C++ to Ruby to PHP
Probably opens almost anything most programs can't

Thanks GOAD. Look forward to a new day.

Editor can't use on other country.
can't press charactres ą ś ć ń ź with Alt+ key

I have been using Textpad for several revisions. I have written my own Tcl libraries in order to augment Textpad - all of the hard work I have done seems to be in AptEdit. I am very impressed and have likely switched my default text editor.

Thank you! :D

I am using Programmer File Editor for years, but AptEdit Pro now gives me more useful (to me) options.

So thank you very much, GAOTD and Brother Technology! :D

#41
PSPad can also edit files in hex, but I almost never use this feature. Do you?
Beside of that, I'm testing (thanks to returnil) this application. And for my need, it's not as good as PSPad. There are my arguments:

1) the project management doesn't support folders, and won't import a whole project with subfolders. At my work, I'm on a web application with a lot of php/javascript/css, and I have to organize in subfolders if my brain want to survive to such amount of files.
I see that AptEdit Pro has a browse tab, but you see all the files, not only the ones related to your project.

2) PSPad has much more tools and scripts than AptEdit Pro. For instance, TiDy formatting is sometimes not a luxury. Color picker is another example.

3) autocompletion is way much better in PSPad than in AptEdit Pro or Notepad++. In PSPad, it (ctrl+space) pop up a window with a selection of most of the attributes of the html tag. And it even generates the closing tag. It works almost same in javascript and php where it proposes an example line.

4) Macro. PSPad and Notepad++ has macro, AptEdit Pro doesn't.

5) Language support. Pspad supports by default up to 30 languages, including pascal, sql, perl and python (why not ruby?). Notepad++ seems to support even more. What about AptEdit Pro? 5? 6 languages? And you can't even change the language mode in the middle of the editing. Sorry but... what a joke!
edit: Sorry, I just found that up to 20 languages are supported for highlight.

6) What about plugins and extensions? Both PSPad and Notepad++ can be extended with plugins and adding new languages support. AptEdit Pro can't be extended by any ways. It can't even add a new language.

AptEdit Pro may have others good points, but I can quickly see what it doesn't have.
Once again, I'll stick with PSPad.

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OT!!!!

Hey I'm still so not pleased that yesterday's Wonderland Flash did not work! Never got a response from their tech guys and never heard back from the site here!
Sort of SuX when you ask about a glitch and no one responds. 'Specially when you liked the possibilities of the product.
Ariana

Guess I'm not the only one who's this garbage tried to mess. Only for me, it left, not only the program, file bit 144 registry errors on a machine that was clean of errors last night.
Assumed to take over file associations that I didn't want it to & changed all my notepad icons to it's own.
All this after refusing to accept the registration provided in the readme. What the hell is this company presuming to do with a garbage program like this?
I can't speak for anyone else but I'll stick with the ever free, Notepad ++. It's free & never attempted to take over my computer. Download this at your own risk but don't say you weren't warned.

#33, After install, you should input the register information on the register dialog.

Can this version be installed to a flash drive?

According to the website: "AptEdit can be installed on FLASH or other portable drives. All user configurations are saved in the movable drive. You can carry AptEdit with you wherever your travels or business take you and run it on almost any computer."

It would be really useful to be able to install on my flash drive tool kit.

I could not find any instructions on how to do so, anyone know?

Hello to all, & especially those who think that today's Giveaway is a TEXT editor.
Yes, AptEdit edits text.
But many of you seem to think that its comparable to Microsoft Frontpage, Notepad++, or PSPad.
AptEdit can also edit hexadecimal, or even a drive.
That means you can use it to edit software, or even the bits & bytes of code recorded on your computers hard drive.
Of course, many will have NO need of such capabilities.
But can Notepad++ do that? How about Microsoft Frontpage?
No, I didn't think so. [PSPad, I don't know.]
IF you need/want to edit (or just explore) your hard drive, [assuming you know HOW] AptEdit will do it.
Of course, such a powerful tool is dangerous in the wrong hands, so be careful with it.
Just don't compare it to Notepad++, etc.

Regards,
j

How does this compare to TECO? Is there anything out there like TECO?

How does AptEdit compare with Textpad?

Greetings folks:

Since I hand code all of my websites, technically I can use any simple text editor, including the lowly MS Notepad. However, as my pages grew longer and more complex, more advanced text editors became necessary. For the past decade or so, I've relied upon various versions of NoteTab Light & Pro. It does an excellent job [multible tabs, unlimited file sizes, global search-and-replace, etc] but its syntax highlighting is a bit weak [ie., HTML Attributes & Values don't receive their own colours].

Because of this, I have lately been looking at various other editors, including:

Crimson Editor www.crimsoneditor.com/,
EditPlus www.editplus.com/,
Editra http://editra.org/,
Edxor http://www.snapfiles.com/get/edxor.html,
jEdit www.jedit.org/,
Komodo Edit http://www.openkomodo.com/,
LopeEdit http://www.lopesoft.com/en/index.html,
Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm,
SynText http://www.syntext.com/, &
UltraEdit http://www.ultraedit.com/.

With the exception of Edxor [no syntax highlighting, tabs, nor line numbering] & jEdit [quite slow due to the heavy load of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE)], all work very well in terms of syntax highlighting, tabbed interface & line numbering. I will, of course, test today's GAOTD offering, AptEdit, and the aforementioned, PSPAD.

In the very near future, I intend to migrate to BSD [specifically, PC-BSD] and Linux [some type of Debian distribution using KDE such as Kubuntu, Xandros OCE, or just Debian itself]. Accordingly, I'll likely switch to either/both Editra or/& Komodo Edit so I can use the same text editor(s) when I multi-boot between Linux, BSD & Windows. The other text editors I listed above don't seem to have Linux versions [although I could always use WINE or Crossover Office compatibility layers to run them].

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# 10 & 28

Here is a screenshot of an xml page being edited with AptEdit: http://www.aptedit.com/images/ss_xml.gif .

Uninstall left the program files, 28 registry errors, 27 of which were in file types. Changed default associations that were in no way selected by me.Caused a reconfigure in my MS Office upon restart. I just did a system restore to.
Free or not, any app causing issues on my machine like this one did, isn't worth the time of day!

Good program, but when first run, menus have a nasty lag opening cause the exe is encrypted.

Weird! And thats saying it nicely. After install it didn't want to take the activation information on the readme file. Kept saying "unregistered", you have 30 days left. With better freeware available, I uninstalled it.
It left the program file behind. After restart, Windows had to reconfigure MS Office. It changed the default icons for text & notepad to It's own, even on file types I chose not to associate with it. System restore straightened it out, finally
10xx looser for me! Install it at your own risk!

No improvement from last time. Still crashes under Vista with UAC turned off. (Installed as Admin, installation seemed smooth enough but this happens on first invocation. Also as admin)

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: aptedit.exe
Application Version: 4.6.2.314
Application Timestamp: 48774b24
Fault Module Name: StackHash_2796
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: 80000003
Exception Offset: 00c775ba
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.2
Locale ID: 1033

Now I remember why it wasn't already on my machine despite the good reviews...

@nunya
@Adam

Yes, this program will edit XML files.

There are different makes of AptEdit. To compare go:http://www.aptedit.com/aeversion.htm

For folks that like comparing with some freeware alternatives (not in any particular order):
Notepad PlusNotepad 2PsPadArachnophiliaCrimson Editor

Commercial editor UltraEdit is here: http://www.ultraedit.com/

AptEdit Pro is a decent text editor.
But why in a PRO version no character count (in addition to word count) and no language support?

does this program let you edit .xml files also?

I would like to add to my former comment.
In AptEdit's menu under HELP is the option "Check latest version". When you do that in the future, AptDiff which comes with AptEdit will be upgraded aswell, but you will not be under the Giveaway-licence anymore and it might be possible that you end up only having an upgraded freeware AptDiff and an unregistered AptEdit. That was the reason for the procedure in my former comment.
To be save have a seperate AptDiff (or even do not upgrade at all), but than it will not be called from AptEdit anymore. In the riscy procedure I described, you end up with this GAotD-version of AptEdit which shouldn't be checked for upgrades and an upgradable AptDiff (with a check for new versions aswell) which (AptDiff) can be called from AptEdit.

AptEdit comes with a freeware AptDiff file-comparison tool which is quite good too.It is a bit like Ultra Edit comes with Ultra Compare.

AptDiff has far less features than Ultra Compare though.One of the most lacking features in AptDiff is the ability to compare folders.This has to be some kind of future-use because when not started from AptEdit (but directly from the file 'Aptdiff.exe') you get to choose between folders and files, though you cannot choose really, the radio-button is always on "files".

Because AptDiff is freeware, there should be no problem upgrading to a new version in the future (unless that version is not freeware anymore ofcourse).
When you seperately download AptDiff, the option to check on newer versions is there. In the version coming with todays GaoTD this check is not supported from AptDiff. So it might be a good idea to have the separate AptDiff too.

You can copy all the files from the seperate version from Aptdiff over the ones in the Aptedit directory from the GAotD installation. Do this only at your own risk.It works for me though, but I don't know if something will happen with it in the future. I won't know because I will stick with my licenced UltraEdit and UltraCompare anyway.

AptEdit has to new menu-listings "Search" and "View" compared to the 3.5 version last time here (I didn't uninstall). And a button for the spelling checker (dict. in eng_user.udt)

Ofcourse there are many alternatives like the famous freeware crimson editor @ http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
But AptEdit is very feature-rich and it could be easily your favourite editor.

I`m using Notepad++ for all my programming and and other data viewing/editing needs. Is it worth to install this program ? Has someone using Notepad++ tried this and noticed some meaningful features that are worth installing ?

Someone above said that it`s slow. Is that true ? The last thing I need is a viewer that takes over 1 second to load any file. Notepad++ is blazing fast in loading/viewing.

Keep in mind when you install version 4.6(this one),it doesn't overwrite version 4.5(earlier given on GAOTD).So you need to uninstall version 4.5 so as to save some of your hard disk space.

No problems with installation or performance on XP SP3. I'm still using good old Programmers File Editor, but now I think it's time to let AptEdit replace it. AptEdit has lots of useful features, and it's very practical to have a combined HTML - and Perl editor. Thanks, GAOTD, I will keep this one! Great software!

Not bad, however it doesn't appear to do anything that the free program Notepad++ doesn't do.

Oh, and Chip (#4): MS FrontPage is just about the worst thing you could use to edit HTML. :)

Nice neat & fully working program, cheers

also works on my x64 bit xp pro sp2 fully too.. .