simple text editor

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Looking for a simple text editor that looks and works like win notepad but has a block edit feature. Back in the day when I worked for a living using Dos 2. something or other, I had a text editor that did that. I don't remember the name, I just know it was very useful. I have searched but anything that comes up usually has too many features and a long learning curve.

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Google docs? I think it would be worth learning. Access all your stuff from any computer on the net, voice typing, even use it on your smart phone.
I use it for car maintenance and oil stash tracking, then I know what I need when I see a sale in the store.
https://www.google.ca/docs/about/

Maybe don't store personal info on it, but I've never heard of it being hacked either?
 
I'd suggest emacs, but you stated you're not in favour of excessive features and a steep learning curve.
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I can't get the hang of complicated text editors like Emacs, either. If you can run Linux, try KWrite from the KDE desktop environment. It's a lightweight text editor like Notepad but it has color-highlighted syntax; makes text editing and HTML coding so easy. I hate KDE, but download it just to have access to KWrite.

HTH!
 
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Originally Posted By: BeerCan
Another notepad ++ user here


I have it. Works good. Should be all I need. I could have wordpad but I don't like it. It's clumsy, has too many features and it's typical MS programing. Ugg..

Once in a while, I need an editor that is a little more powerful then wordpad, something that lets me manipulate text and graphics.

Anyway, thanks for the help. Good Ole bitog is always there.
 
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