Appreciate, if some one recomends good text editors (freeware) for Nastran deck. I had one good flexible text editor, that highlights all nastran keywords and wors well with huge text files. But I forget the name now. If any one has one, please recommed me.
UltraEdit. Works great on large files; very fast. Very good copy/cut/paste - can even select a block of text (columns x rows) rather than whole rows. Well worth the cost.
crimson editor, and editpad, are both free stable and powerful text teditors for windows, crimson editor being my preferred one. winmerge or csdiff are good for doing diffs on decks, winmerge is prettier, csdiff will create a machine readable differences file.
Cheers
Greg Locock
SIGlease see FAQ731-376 for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips.
I use PFE (Programmer's File Editor), it is very simple and intuitive to use. You can use create and run macros very easily. The disadvantage is the absense of a color scheme, or the capability of select columns... this make me sometimes use the crimson ... but indeed I always have used the PFE... I recommend both of FREEWARE programs!
Hi Mario, I have done a syntax highlighting starting from the ultraedit syntax file. I believe there is no copyright on the syntax file and we can use for other text editor. If I'm wrong, please remove the post!
I attach the file here. let me know if is good for you.
Onda
if tried your highlighting scheme, but in my case it doesn't work with the current version of notepad++ (it always breaks down).
@Mario: Is it working for you?
I'm searching for a scheme which is able to highlight every 8 columns of the .bdf file, so that you can easily read through the bulk entries. It's really was really enoying the first time with the windows editor.
I'm using the current 5.6.8 version of notpad++. There you can usally go on "setup" ("Einstellungen" in the german version), then click "import" and "themes". There you select the file. Afterwards you load this theme in "setup" -> "style".
But I've to admitt it doesn't work in my case. If anyone did manage to use the style-scheme....
Hi Paul,
I've read a lot of your interesting posts on VPD community.
In my computer the XML file is in the installation directory of notepad++ : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++. (OS XP X64)
To keep the file in that location, during the installation you should check the box with the following text: "Don’t use %APPDATA%"
You could set one vertical line to check a field length.
to do this go under Configuration>Preferences>Editing>Vertical edge setting
Check the box for Show vertical edge
set a number multiplier of 8