{"id":2289,"date":"2010-07-19T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/19\/back-from-teched-whats-wrong-with-using-notepad\/"},"modified":"2010-07-19T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T17:00:24","slug":"back-from-teched-whats-wrong-with-using-notepad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/19\/back-from-teched-whats-wrong-with-using-notepad\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from TechEd: What&#8217;s wrong with using Notepad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some folks wandered by our booth and after realizing that some of our products involve editing scripts of various languages reacted with statements like: &#8220;I use notepad, it works fine&#8221;, &#8220;Notepad is just on every machine&#8221; or &#8220;What would you do that Notepad can&#8217;t do.?&#8221; Others bowed their head almost in shame while admitting that they use notepad.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, there is nothing wrong with using notepad if you have nothing else available, you make do with what you have.<\/p>\n<p>How much more of a sophisticated editor on top of just plain Notepad you need is for you to decide of course.<\/p>\n<p>You can try out our free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/30\/sometimes-all-you-need-is-an-editor\/\" target=\"_blank\">PrimalPad<\/a>, which us just a single executable and requires no installation, just like notepad. The syntax coloring alone makes your editing a lot less error prone. <\/p>\n<p>You can use it with VBScript, JScript and PowerShell and, of course, plain old text files too.<\/p>\n<p>Just try it, come on, it&#8217;s FREE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PrimalPad.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"484\" alt=\"PrimalPad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PrimalPad_thumb.png\" width=\"605\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some folks wandered by our booth and after realizing that some of our products involve editing scripts of various languages reacted with statements like: &#8220;I use notepad, it works fine&#8221;, &#8220;Notepad is just on every machine&#8221; or &#8220;What would you do that Notepad can&#8217;t do.?&#8221; Others bowed their head almost in shame while admitting that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[577,530,21,24,25],"tags":[487,581,28,486,191,996],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-from-teched","category-primalpad-software-news","category-software-news","category-vbscript","category-windows-powershell","tag-jscript","tag-notepad","tag-powershell","tag-primalpad","tag-sapien","tag-vbscript"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}