EditPlus Reviews

Summary: Fast and easy and powerful.
Great day to day coding or text editor.
Well worth the trial and you'll be hooked.

Positive: Has all the modern features.
East to record macro keystrokes.
Fast loading has hex display.
Better than Notepad++.
Handles ftp built in.
It's been my editor of choice for years.

Negative: Hardly any.
I like the features and nice menu design.

Summary: Overall, for the price it's certainly a valuable and cost-effective tool. Everyone who uses an editor has different needs, and this one fit mine very well, and it's fairly customizable so regardless of your usage, it's likely to work for most people. I'm glad I found it and would definitely recommend it.

Positive: My previous editor became unstable in recent releases, so I found myself searching for a new one. I seriously tried about 3 or 4 different editors for a few weeks each, but found EditPlus and stopped looking. For my particular needs editing Perl scripts, it's perfect. It easily supported running the Perl interpreter to syntax check the code and show the output in a separate pane. Color syntax highlighting and code folding are supported. It also has handled large files in the tens of megabytes quickly. It also allows for a fair amount of keyboard customization, so I was able to set up the key combinations I'm already familiar with for various operations. It also has the ability to insert code snippets which I have found useful on a few occasions. I don't use it to its fullest extent, but for what I need to do, it's intuitive, fast, and stable. I've yet to encounter an exception during operation and I use it for many hours per day, every day.

Negative: There have only been a couple of nits that are bothersome, and the author corrected them quickly upon being reported. The only one that I still encounter on a frequent basis is my need to have the File->Open dialog open to the same folder every time regardless of where I last opened a file from. Currently, it always defaults to the last folder you opened a file from, which means I often have to click through the folder hierarchy to get to my work folder.