For just over the past year, Hippo Edit (HE) has been my editor of choice (alongside 010 Editor) - (Both for commercial use).

Like most people have their favorite chair, a PC gamer has their favorite mouse, coders have their favorite file editor(s). For a professional who uses a file editor all day - to make the decision purely on price, free vs. $40 - is probably short changing your "work environment". I've tried all the major editors (I still do when curious), and there were things I liked and things I wished I could borrow from others. At the end of the day, I could keep changing and customising each editor to work the way I want.

There is a section in their forums http://forum.hippoedit.com/??&board=6.0 - where users talk about features in HippoEdit compared to other browsers (usually discussing positive features in the competition).

HippoEdit also offers up to a 40% discount if you have purchased and registered a commercial copy of another text editor.

One thing I should mention, for many of the more advanced features related to customising the editor - the help file only goes so far. For many tasks the answers I needed could only be found in the support forums. For casual use - most users will probably not even need to look at the help files.

There are some really nice features coming (soon) with version 1.50 - http://forum.hippoedit.com/?/topic,117.0.html

BuBBy  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+95)

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@3 & 4 - The limitation to have portable installation is only "theoretical" and disabled in installer because of GiveawayOfTheDay registration process, which involves registry, that is not very portable.
The simplest way to overcome that: install trial version from hippoedit website (not x64 bit), select there portable way, and that install on top of it GiveawayOfTheDay version.
1. uninstall GOTD version if already installed
2. download and install trial version from HE website (select portable way)
3. then ON TOP of trial install GOTD version once more.

Or
1. just copy all the settings from User folder to HippoEDIT installation folder and that is all. Also works.

Full version does not have such limitation.

BUT DO NOT USE PORTABLE INSTALLATION FOR INSTALLING INTO PROGRAM FILES FOLDER on Win 7 x64.

More info about the topic on forum (or search for "portable" on it): http://forum.hippoedit.com/?/topic,21.0.html

Alex (HippoEDIT)  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+65)

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Hello everybody,

UPDATE: considering the registration issue in the morning HippoEDIT will be available for extra 4 hours tomorrow. New giveaway will start as usually. Enjoy! ;)

the download file has been updated. There could be a problem with registration for Windows x64 users, but now it should disappear.

How do you know that you are the one who need to re-download the build?
If you do not see " ... (GiveAwaOfTheDay edition)" in About box or the title of the main window, the program is functioning in trial mode. Is it about you? Please get back soon and download the archive again.

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Best regards,
GOTD project team

Giveaway of the Day project team  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+39)

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to 6: You need to configure formatting rules to get result you want: Tools->Options->Formatting->Smart Helpers->Case Correction to UPPERCASE

Alex (HippoEDIT)  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+31)

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Have been using for the past hour.
Downloaded after spending half an hour in the forums.

Very impressive. In an area that is extremely over-saturated, this may just become my regular goto editor.


Till now:
TextWrangler on the Mac.
Notepad++ on PC.
Having given up on DashCode, Komodo, Aptana, Geany, Dreamweaver, Jedit, and quite a few others.

SamGoody  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+30)

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