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Not just geeky, but SUPERgeeky.

Made ME smile, though, because I can DEFINITELY relate.

Off-topic – just wanted to thank you for reviewing and recommending NoteTab way back when. I use NoteTab Light to prep all my blogposts, and I pimp it heavily to anyone who will listen (and a few people who won’t).

Best software I’ve ever used. Versatile, stable, reliable. I even use it for 2-line throwaway posts.

Glad you like it, Harv. Most anything I do involves NoteTab Pro, from blog posts, the web pages, to style sheets, to storing templates … on and on.

In fact, I feel so disoriented when I get a client document in Word that I open it only long enough to “Ctrl+A” and “Ctrl+C” then paste it into a new document in NoteTab.

Plain Text Rules.

I was just talking to someone about text editors and the strange attachements we form to them. I’ve been using EditPlus for years and I’d swear the thing knows what I’m going to enter before I do.

It just sits there quietly and goes about it’s business for days at a time without so much as a hiccup. It’s best feature is also the rarest feature in most software—it just works.

Reid – does NoteTab Pro have a preview feature? That’s the only thing my blog editing window has that NoteTab Light doesn’t.

Al, I know what you mean. When someone like you leaves a link, I always go check it out … and think, “well, it’s cool, but it’s not NoteTab.” Just as I’m sure you do with EditPlus.

We do get attached to our tools. I used to participate in a newsgroup where users of two competing graphics programs would argue about “mine’s better” ... “no mine is” “yeah, well version 4.0 will kick yer ass” etc., etc. Every now and then, just for fun, I’d post something like … “do you think Van Gogh and Gauguin spent their time arguing about their brushes, or did they spend it in other ways that you see in museums today?”

Harvey, as for preview, it depends on what you mean by that. It has two buttons you can click to launch a designated primary (Firefox) or secondary (IE) browser with whatever document you have loaded. But I don’t do my blog drafts with paragraph or break tags, I just let Textpattern handle that, so I don’t exactly “preview” in that manner. And when I’m hand coding, I use it to get the page loaded in each browser, and then save and refresh as needed.

I did finally come up with one negative thing to say about NoteTab Pro. It seems like they’ve been stuck at version 4.95 forever (May, 2003). Surely vast improvements in plain text have been made since then!