EditPlus is marketed as and intended to be only an advanced plain-text editor. It is not a visual HTML editor, nor is it said to be. This is why I was happy to see that the program stays within its realm and doesn’t go beyond text editing. What it does, it does well. My favorite feature of this program is the way it handles multiple files open at the same time. There’s a little bar at the bottom of the screen that has a tab for every open file. If the file has been edited, the icon on the tab is red. If the file hasn’t been edited, the icon is blue. This way, you can see at a glance whether you have edited an open file or not.
The tabbed file list is especially helpful for hacking up your UBB files. You can keep the instructions for the hack at the beginning of the list, and then open all the files you’ll need to edit for that particular hack. After you edit each file, the icon changes to red, so you can easily see how many and which files are left to edit. Very snazzy.
EditPlus also has many standard features that you’d come to expect from a top-notch text editor. You can customize the font and font size of the editor window, change the syntax for editing files, turn on syntax highlighting, change the line break formatting, record keystroke macros, and use an extensive find-replace feature. The find-replace is really great for applying hacks to UBB files because you can input some text to search for, then input what it should be replaced with. You can also choose to keep the operation case sensitive, search for whole words only, search for regexes only, search one or all open files, and more.
