This program manages to show me two separate warnings on first startup, about the fact that I’m not a licensed user of the program. Why can’t they just let me get started with my 30 days evaluation without bothering me with this from the word go? EditPlus installed a few start menu shortcuts and opened the link window after the installation was complete. That’s what made me click on their readme file, which I probably wouldn’t have seen otherwise. The interesting thing is that the readme has an English part and a part in “Hangul (Korean)”, a language I’m not familiar with. What surprised me, though, was that the Korean part displayed only cryptic ASCII rubbish instead of nice Korean characters. So, the first impression is that EditPlus doesn’t appear to have any Unicode support – or can it be that the makers forgot about that when writing up their readme? By going to a link that was listed in that paragraph ( ) I was able to confirm that my system has everything installed that’s necessary to view this language correctly. ![]() The last thing I noticed immediately is an aesthetic aspect: I recently changed my Windows XP theme to the (more or less) new Royale theme by Microsoft. This seems to be a problem for the menu system in EditPlus, because every single entry in the menu bar has a background that’s noticeably lighter than the surrounding colour. I double-checked the same thing with the two editors I previously tested (UltraEdit and TextPad) and I found that both of them have the same problem! Interesting… General featuresĮditPlus starts up very fast. The document model is MDI with an additional button bar at the bottom of the window, that allows to switch directly between loaded files. While looking at regular expressions support, I found an interesting bug: I have a file starting with a line that says “Oliver Sturm”. Now I was searching for (+) and the first match I got was Oliver Sturm (note that the space between the words was included). ![]() ![]() Searching for the next match, I got this: Oliver Sturm. It was not possible at all to match the complete line with the complete test expression (+) (+).
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