Twistpad is on the scene!
I've been a loyal
Textpad user for a many number of years and influenced a company or two to buy site licenses for it. I occasionally peek over at the Textpad forums to see if there is any movement or developments. There are none to be seen. At first I was wondering what was going on? Nothing new or bug fixes since 2004. I don't say anything or venture out to try out any other options (
Notepad2,
UltraEdit, or
Notepad++).
When
Ryan Farley posted his quick review of Twistpad I actually downloaded it and installed it. I goofed around with it for about ten minutes and then uninstalled it. I just wasn't that impressed. Was it flashy or have some cool features? Yep, it sure does. But for what Textpad is, a replacement for
Windows Notepad, nothing is better. Twistpad is pretending to be an IDE and I've got that covered.
This little test run just made me realize how great Textpad really is. It's fast, efficient, and has tons of functionality FOR A TEXT EDITOR..and that's ok. No shame it that. I do use the
syntax highlighting but that just helps me differentiate the syntax. I don't need or want intellisense or collapsing regions in a text editor. Textpad gives me what I want.
I went back over to the Textpad forums and found a
thread discussing the "lack" of new features being released.
- Fascinating, I didn't realize it was so antiquated. So does TP not meet your needs or is it simply that a new version has not been released since 4.7.3 and thus it's old?
- TextPad is great, but it's not designed to be an IDE...TextPad can't be beat for almost everything else, it's so fast, lightweight, I can have 20 files open in selector; search is fantastic; very flexible document classes; etc.
- One the one hand I miss some of the features I have seen in other applications but on the other hand I enjoy using a somehow limited but finely crafted, stable, speedy and homogeneous application. Over the years some of the competitive products have kept on to wildly integrate so many user wishes that they have became bloated and shapeless.
I agree with these guys 100%. Twistpad may be on the scene but Textpad is in my toolbox!