E-texteditor and open source

Yes, is somehow true. E-texteditor goes open source. Or something like that. From Alexander blog post i extracted this:

  • The source will be made available in few days;
  • Even though the source will be public, the software will not be.. free. Licensing code will not be public
  • Yes, there will be (finally!) a linux version. Which will be free :)

I can only hope that the TEAM will work on three aspects: stability (a lot of bug fixes), speed (sometimes i encounter some “slow motion” when i open large files; also, on old computers will simply… won’t work) and networking (FTP client can be better than that). Also, a 64 bit version would be nice :D

Let’s wait and see the evolution of the new Open Company.

Recovering after a crash of e-texteditor

Even the best software have troubles sometimes. Today i will show you how to survive after a crash of E-texteditor (i survived twice so, you can do too :P ).

For various reasons, E-text can crash or just hang when you want to save (especially when you work remotely, via FTP) and can ruin the work of a whole day (or even more) because when saves, the editor will first empty/remove current file, then will write the new one. And if the editor crash just after file is removed, you are screwed. Or, at least, you think so.

Whan you need to do:

Grab a small and fast editor. My pick is Scite. Is small and is DAMN fast with huge files.

Hit your WIN+R on your keyboard and write this: %appdata%\e\temp. Then dragg all files in Scite. Here you can find all recently edited files (may be many files, on my pc there is around 30 or so). Now, all you need to do is to find the file you was saving when the editor crashed. I know, it may be hard, but i can bet is not harder than rewritting your whole file ;)

Bonus tip:

Older version of E-texteditor was somehow unstable in various circumstances. And because i use E since 1.0 or so, i had to develop a good habit: backup my settings. For doing that i use Sync Toy 2. Every night i close my editor and every morning synctoy will copy my settings on another partition, just in case. It’s VERY important to close the editor before backup, because most settings (like ftp accounts) are saved when editor closes. So, unless you want your backup to be useless, please, close your editor :D

Bonus tip 2:

From time to time, visit e-texteditor forums. Most new versions don’t hit the front page if they are not well tested. Live example: on homepage, the last version is 1.0.30 and on forums is 1.0.31 (which is way more stable). So.. Keep an eye there!

I don’t use CS4. Not yet.

Everyone knows (ok, not everyone, but most people know) that i’m not a design guy. When i have some free time (rarely and rarely :( ) i start to play with colours and try to make a great design. I never did until now, but i’m a perseverant guy.

Anyhow, let’s get back on CS4. Even CS4 was released officially few days ago, all suite is available on certain sites since two months ago (give or take). I don’t know why, but CS4 was one of the most waited (by me) version of Photoshop. I’m not a photographer or a designer, but… i’m just dying to see it at work.

When i finally have it, i was like.. uhm… that sucks! Because of numerous bugs and flaws, Photoshop was a BIG disappointment. Some parts were good, but the bad parts were… awful :(

Good things:

  • 64 bit support. I own 8gb of ram but CS3 can’t handle more than 3.2Gb. Actually this is a limitation of all 32bit programs (yes, including windows!). Adobe fix this with a 64bit release of photoshop.
  • Using GPU for processing. Again, it’s a great thing, but you need a decent video card. I owned a 7600GT from nvidia but no use. With my new 9800Gtx, works great :P
  • Canvas slide (i don’t know how is named exactly) – you drag the canvas (with hand tool) and the canvas will move with a nice slide. Not necessary a workflow improvements, but it’s some kind of eyecandy.
  • Rotate canvas – if you use a tablet pc or a Wacom Cintiq. Not for regular users though.
  • Content aware scale – you can resize your image with AMAZING results. Great for photographers, for me… Not so great (actually isn’t good or bad)

Bad things:

Well.. Not so many bad things. But those who are here, are enough to make me not to use CS4. I use Photoshop mostly to slice layouts so here is what i found wrong:

  • You can move a slice over the canvas boundaries. You can’t make it directly bigger, but you can resize/move. After you make a huge slice, you can’t resize it back (only double click, change width/height).
  • On “save for web” window, if you pick gif/png format and you want to pick colours that will be transparent with color picker, you can’t SHIFT+drag on colors for multiple selections. I use this function kinda frequently, because it’s more easy that creating a “chroma key” layer. On the other hand, on “color table” box, you can pick multiple colors. Nice, but useless because i can’t guess colors…
  • Photoshop CS4 64bit used to crash after 1-2 minutes. After i google it, i found the problem: if you had Guitar Pro installed, you have to remove “Guitar pro*.ttf” from c:\windows\fonts folder. I deleted that and i have no problem now :P

Overall, i’m happy with CS4 for only one big reason: 64bit and more than 3Gb ram support. Sometimes i get some huge files to slice (over 50Mb) and every single MB of ram is important. But those problems with slice make the whole program useless for me :(

I don’t use any other software from CS4, but i heard that Fireworks have some big problems too. Adobe was in big hurry to launch this, and it succeed to mess things up. I hope an update will be launched soon, otherwise CS4 will have the lowest sells in Adobe history.

E-texteditor 1.0.31 Released

  • Fixed detection of correct syntax for bundle items.
  • Fixed insertion of separators in bundle menus.
  • Fixed cases where deleted bundles returned on restart.
  • Fixed completion within autobrackets.
  • Pageup/down now works in completion popup.
  • Fixed some issues with transformations in snippets.
  • Symbols are now stripped of newlines before transformation.
  • Fixed crash when opening project settings with file selected.
  • Lots of minor bugfixes.

Download free trial of E-texteditor 1.0.31 HERE.

E-texteditor v1.0.30 released

My favorite editor is on version 1.0.30 (launched today). The main feature is that Alexander finally fixed a MAJOR bug: E used to crash frequently when you use remote or SVN. I didn’t have problems with SVN because i never used and frankly i don’t know how to use :P But ftp made me to pull my hair out.

Here are the release notes:

  • Fixed a really nasty memory corruption bug that has been the source of a lot of crashes.
  • Fixed creation of shortcuts in bundle commands.
  • Fixed deletion of bundles via context menu.
  • Fixed crash when clicking on empty dir in ftp project.
  • Fixed webpreview crash.
  • Fixed correct restore of bundle pane state.
  • Fixed bundle env is now also set for CompletionCmds.

Download? As always, on E site: http://e-texteditor.com/download/e_setup.exe