Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Comparison of Text Editors for idf-file

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Jason Glazer <jglazer@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you compare text files very often, I would recommend
WinMerge. It can compare two files or two entire directories
of files. And its free.

http://winmerge.org/

If you want to compare three text files (like when two
people have revised the same file) then UltraCompare
Professional is great. It compares directories too.

http://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultracompare/tour/compare-text.html

Both make merging changes very easy.

BTW, I have been using UltraEdit for text editing for many,
many years.

Jason

On 8/14/2012 1:20 PM, Linda Lawrie wrote:
>
>
> You've also missed UltraEdit/UltraCompare.
>
> Textpad has:
> Save as
> Rectangular selection (called block edit mode) but this is
> less than useful for many IDF files. I do find it useful
> though.
>
> Side by side compare (?) view -- not as comparing as
> Ultracompare.
>
> We usually publish the syntax highlights for TextPad and
> Ultraedit after each release.
> Textpad keywords are limited to 60 characters, more or less,
> so 7.1 broke it. 7.2 will fix it.
>
> Both Ultraedit and Textpad syntax highlighting are very
> editable.
>
> Someone made a Notepad++ syntax but it hasn't been kept up
> to date.
>
> At 12:07 PM 8/14/2012, Pavel Dybskiy wrote:
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It might be useful for some of us who gets annoyed with
>> notepad.
>>
>> I did a quick comparison of three text editors: TextPad
>> 6.1.3, Notepad++ 6.1.5 and relatively new Sublime 2.1.
>>
>> I have selected several features, some of which I found
>> very useful, others somehow useful.
>>
>> *E.g. very useful: *
>>
>> * Syntax highlighting,
>> * Side by side file compare (someone may know this
>> feature from Total Commander),
>> * Text fold/unfold(collapse/uncollapse)
>>
>>
>> *Somehow useful: *
>>
>> * Save Copy As ... ,

>> * Rectangular selection (used to be in the stone age qedit)
>>
>>
>> A picture in the attachment shows the results of this
>> comparison.
>>
>> In brief, NONE of these editors can claim having MORE THAN
>> ONE useful feature!
>>
>> Your comments and personal experience are very welcome.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pavel Dybskiy
>> Ryerson University,Toronto
>>
>>
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