With all the work I've been doing lately to migrate my station to a new host, it occurred to me that I should share with the community a program I've found extremely useful for some time now. The usual disclaimer of "I'm not affiliated with nor do I work for XYZ company" applies here.
Instead of using Notepad/Wordpad :bash: when you're working on text-based files (ini, conf, php, html, etc), try out Programmer's Notepad. It uses syntax highlighting and can make keeping your place in a document much easier. This also helps a lot if you're not familiar with a particular language such as php or javascript as it makes the different parts stand out. And of course, it's free, just like RadioDJ!
http://www.pnotepad.org/ (http://www.pnotepad.org/)
Hope this helps someone, as it has helped me time and time again.
Thanks for suggestion. I find it impossible to use Windows Notepad for code or configuration file editing. Besides, if you were to edit sql backup file containing foreign characters, you could corrupts it, because notepad would save the file in ANSI codepage or UTF-16 charset, rendering file almost useless for import. It can be corrected, but takes some know-how to fix.
I've never tried programmers notepad. I'm using Notepad2 as Windows Notepad replacement with basic features for programming. The best part is that it can intercept calls to standard notepad.exe, completely replacing it. To be exact, I'm using Notepad2-mod (http://xhmikosr.github.io/notepad2-mod/) which has more highlighters and some other improvements over original Notepad2.
Apart from that, I have Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus-plus.org/), which is more advanced multiple file editor (with tabs), which I use for smaller projects. New RadioDJ WordPress plugin was written entirely in Notepad++.
Naturally, both applications are free and open source.