{"id":104,"date":"2009-01-03T11:09:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-01-03T11:09:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T18:09:27","slug":"source-edit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"source edit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-106\" title=\"iquit\" src=\"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/iquit.jpg\" alt=\"iquit\" width=\"127\" height=\"95\" \/>I&#8217;m hanging out a lot in Windows land these days (only reason: diggin&#8217; writing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/2008\/12\/ultimate-netbook\/\">ThinkPad<\/a>). A few tweaks and what the heck, I can switch between OSX &amp; XP machinery without too much culture shock.<\/p>\n<p>Then I decided it&#8217;d be nice to find a free little text editor with FTP capabilities (like the awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barebones.com\/products\/TextWrangler\/\">TextWrangler<\/a> on Mac) that I could use for quick remote web tweaks\/fixes\/whatever.<\/p>\n<p>ZOMG. WTF. &amp;%#@. Okay, well, there are many. It&#8217;s <em>Windows<\/em>, for fuck&#8217;s sake. But almost every single one I found is an unusable POS in some regard&#8230; I won&#8217;t bother with an itemized diss on those that didn&#8217;t pass muster (Jedit, CoffeeCup, Cpad, Crimson Editor, PSPad, SuperEdi), except to say that what stopped me with most was s-l-o-w (or F&#8217;d up) FTP functionality. Or sometimes, a hideous, virtually unusable interface.<\/p>\n<p>Then I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brixoft.net\/prodinfo.asp?id=1\">Source Edit<\/a>. Simple, lean, and useful. Like TextWrangler, it has <em>lots<\/em> of tools for hardcore coders (unlike me), but also includes a nice set of basics for those of us that just want to get in-get out without a lot of rigamarole. So here is my geek PSA for anyone searching: Try it first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hanging out a lot in Windows land these days (only reason: diggin&#8217; writing on the ThinkPad). A few tweaks and what the heck, I can switch between OSX &amp; XP machinery without too much culture shock. Then I decided it&#8217;d be nice to find a free little text editor with FTP capabilities (like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,38,40,59,75,117,128,129,132,137,138,158,162],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","tag-coffeecup","tag-cpad","tag-crimson-editor","tag-ftp","tag-jedit","tag-pspad","tag-source-edit","tag-sourceedit","tag-superedi","tag-text-editor","tag-textwrangler","tag-windows","tag-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}